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Hi-8 to Mac digital editing

X-Bill
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Jan 28, 2000, 1:45 PM

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Hi there.
I have a lot of footage on Hi-8 tapes. I have a beige G3 Power Mac. I would like to purchase a digital video card with firewire, and understand I would need a converter for my footage in order to do this successfully.
Is there anyone out there with suggestions/recommendations as to what card would be best, and what I can use for a converter? I want to output to VHS or SVHS when projects are completed.
Thanks for any help you can offer.

X-Chuck
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Jan 28, 2000, 6:41 PM

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: Hi there.
: I have a lot of footage on Hi-8 tapes. I have a beige G3 Power Mac. I would like to purchase a digital video card with firewire, and understand I would need a converter for my footage in order to do this successfully.
: Is there anyone out there with suggestions/recommendations as to what card would be best, and what I can use for a converter? I want to output to VHS or SVHS when projects are completed.
: Thanks for any help you can offer.
Take a look at the Sony Digital-8 cameras. They can play Hi-8, and regular 8 tapes and produce a digital firewire output direct to your HardDrive. The Digital-8 cameras also do a decent job as a moderately priced camera ($600-$1000) recording to inexpensive 8mm tape.
If you buy the OrangeMicro firewire card, they now include Premiere 5.1 LE which will enable you to capture the files to your G3.

X-edski
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Jan 30, 2000, 11:51 AM

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: Hi there.
: I have a lot of footage on Hi-8 tapes. I have a beige G3 Power Mac. I would like to purchase a digital video card with firewire, and understand I would need a converter for my footage in order to do this successfully.
: Is there anyone out there with suggestions/recommendations as to what card would be best, and what I can use for a converter? I want to output to VHS or SVHS when projects are completed.
: Thanks for any help you can offer.

If you have the ability to play your tapes through s-video or standard rca outputs, Sony makes a box that takes these and converts to real dv compression format and outputs through a firewire cable to your mac. check read me at http://www.aaacamera.com/sony_dvmcda1_media_converter.html
edski

X-siryak
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Feb 4, 2000, 3:07 AM

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I have a Sony Digital 8 camcorder. (DCR TRV 103) the cool thing about this camera is that it has all the feature of Sony firewire/DV converter. It includers S-Video in and out. so you can record in VHS to Digital or recored out to VHS. It will also play Back 8 and Hi-8 tapes and covert to DV through firewire on the Fly! So as you play the analog Hi-8 video it goes out to the computer via firewire and is converted to DV before it gets to your computer. No need to spend hours Dubbing to miniDV and you get a fantastic Camcorder. The Base Model TRV 7000 has all these features for about $650-700.
: : Hi there.
: : I have a lot of footage on Hi-8 tapes. I have a beige G3 Power Mac. I would like to purchase a digital video card with firewire, and understand I would need a converter for my footage in order to do this successfully.
: : Is there anyone out there with suggestions/recommendations as to what card would be best, and what I can use for a converter? I want to output to VHS or SVHS when projects are completed.
: : Thanks for any help you can offer.
:
: If you have the ability to play your tapes through s-video or standard rca outputs, Sony makes a box that takes these and converts to real dv compression format and outputs through a firewire cable to your mac. check read me at http://www.aaacamera.com/sony_dvmcda1_media_converter.html
: edski