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Originally Posted by DarkCircus
Most of the places I've been looking for are about $15 a pop, so you are right, I'd be over that amount with the number of tapes I have.
I thought about it, but I was reading that most hi-8 camcorders are at the end of their lives, and that having a service do it with a deck yields a better quality result. You also have to transfer the hi 8 to another format to import it digitally,right? I heard that some otf the pro decks can actually upconvert, which I guess is part of what I'm hoping for.
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a deck won't give you any better results, (providing the camera head is good and clean) for that matter a pro deck could have a bad or dirty head also
hi-8 camcorder will have firewire which will plug into your computer and your video editing program will handle the rest
as far as an analog tape like your VHS or regular 8mm you have two choices
1: you will need a pc with a video card with s video or composite cable inputs
or
2. you will need a dv camcorder (or possibly get a digital hi-8) with an upconvert feature
(a lot of the Sony camcorders have this feature) and I have used it a bunch, works great
so then you plug your analog VCR or reg 8mm cam into the digital camcorder via a composite or s-video cables and then plug your digital8 or dv camcorder into your computer via the firewire and capture just like you would normal dv