#511500 - 03/30/04 01:43 PM
Hi8 Camcorder into Mac ??????
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T.H.
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I have a Hi8 Camcorder (tape), I have all (3) years of my son in all his glory since he's been born.
I'd like to import this to TOAST TITANIUM and make a DVD of it, is this possible.
I know the DV Cameras are easier to do this, but I purchased my camera maybe 5 years ago before the technology got better. So if there is a way could you guys let me know.
Thanks
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#511501 - 04/01/04 09:05 AM
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gm
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You've probably gotten an answer to this by now...but what you need is one of a variety of available capture cards. These convert analog video to digital. If you've got a Mac this is all made pretty simple from there. Still learning about how to do it on PC's.
George
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#511502 - 04/02/04 03:07 AM
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koolkid
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the pinnacle products are great for converting the hi 8 analog to digital,they sell the usb hardware and also the editing software,its available at comp usa for like 30 bucks
enjoy!!
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#511503 - 04/05/04 03:02 PM
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T.H.
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Thanks fellas
(no one answered it for a week and a half, I started to think it was a dumb question to ask)
but thanks, I'm off to CompUSA today, I have so many things I can do with it once it's in the MAC
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#511504 - 04/05/04 06:23 PM
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Neil Wilkes
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Don't touch pinnacle!
So many bad experiences with their rubbish it's not true.
For PC or MAC, get a Canopus ADVC100 or 300, and run it in from the camera into your app of choice via FireWire. Neither box installs anything to your PC or Mac, but with the ADVC300 you get the option to install a cleanup tool instead of doing it all on the box. I cannot praise these boxes highly enough. At all costs avoid anything that does the MPEG-2 conversion "on the fly" unless it is some serious hardware. The Pinnacle things are cheap garbage. Try using one of them, and take a long hard look at the MPEG stream in something like bitrate viewer. You are in for a shock. Those files that you think are 7Mb/sec maximum? more like 8.4 MB/sec. It's a joke, and so is the quality of them. No wonder Adobe have dropped All Pinnacle support. Their authoring packages are rubbish and full of bugs too. About as stable as DVDit.
If you use Premiere Pro, you can write a DVD from the timeline. My preference is to author properly using either Scenarist or Adobe EncoreDVD.
MPEG encoding by TMPGEnc Plus, who also make a pretty good entry level DVDV authoring app. You can get both from http://www.pegasys-inc.com for $200
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#511505 - 04/07/04 02:35 PM
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Loco
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Once you pick your video capture card, since you're on the Mac, use iMovie and iDVD. They're free, they're simple, they're effective. Also, I think Sony's Digital8 cameras read Hi8 format as well.
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