How to Transfer Hi8 to iMac by Marshal M. The Best Way to Transfer VHS to DVD on a Mac. How to Convert a Video Tape to Digital CD. How to Transfer Movies From Mini DV to a Computer Via USB. How to Use the MacBook Air's Camera. How to Burn DVDs From a Handycam. Option 1 - Borrow a Hi8/8mm camcorder from a friend or relative for temporary use (Free - if you have access to one).; Option 2 - Buy an inexpensive HI8 (or a Digital8 camcorder that has the ability to also playback analog Hi8 and 8mm) camcorder or miniDV camcorder to play your tapes back. Hi8 video converter for mac More Tags:convert mpa to mp4,best fast video converter,convert dvd to xvid,convert mp4 to ntsc,lbs convert to tons,best dvd movies,video converter ultimate mac,avi to. Mar 01, 2007 I've got a pile of old Hi8 video tapes that I'd like to convert to digital files for use in iMovie and iDVD. I'm aware of the potential hardware solutions, but I have a feeling I'll never get around to buying one and doing the required work.

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What's Digital 8?

Digital 8 (shorted D8) is a kind of camera standard developed by Sony. It adopts 8mm metal magnetic tape and meanwhile is compatible with Hi8 and V8. So Digital 8 has more adaptivity and flexibility.

You may have dozen of Digital 8 tapes and would like to convert to DVD for playback as video files on your DVD player or just collection. To convert digital 8 video files to DVD, you need to capture digital 8 tapes to computer firstly and then burn digital 8 video to DVD. Please follow the step-by-step tutorial to transfer digital 8 tapes to DVD Disc.

What we need:

Video capture card or TV card: Pinnaclesys or Canopus.
Blank discs: DVD+RW, DVD-RW or DVD-RAW, DVD+RAW
Disc Burner: A rewritable DVD-ROM
DVD Burning Software: Here I recommend DVD Creator, it's a professional and steady video to DVD Creator that contributes to burn all popular Video files to DVD in high quality without disc wastes. Fully compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8 (DVD Creator Mac version is also available)

Part 1. Capture digital 8 video to computer

1. Install video capture card in PCI of your PC then reboot your PC and complete the rest steps following instructions of pop-up windows

2. Install capture software. Most video capture cards have a built-in capture device. Install recommended software as much as possible.

3. Connect your camcorder and open camcorder

4. Run capture software

5. Click Start to record your video and select what video format you want to save.

6. A while, your digital 8 tapes will be transferred to computer as digital video.

Part 2. Burn DVD from Digital 8 tapes

1 Load Digital 8 files to DVD Creator

Free Download DVD Creator, install and run it.

Click 'Import' or File on menu bar to load these digital 8 tapes video files to the software(Multiple Digital 8 video files can be added each time).

2 DVD menu making

Click 'Menu Template' to customize your DVD menu. There are up to 10 different free styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the DVD menu.

Previewing Digital 8 Movie

Just for make sure everything goes as your plan you could have a video preview before burning it to DVD.

3 Convert Digital 8 to DVD Disc

Once you have previewed your video and nothing wrong about it, you can go to set TV Standard (PAL/NTSC) on 'Setting' option, output Aspect Ratio (4:3/16:9) on 'DVD setting bar' and output Video Quality 'Low video quality, High video quality and Highest video quality'. the highest video quality option is best for high DVD Video quality, even though it will take longer authoring time and occupy more capacity of DVD disc.

And then Click 'Burn' and select your DVD drive (if you have more than one DVD drive on Computer) and hit 'Start' to convert and burn Digital 8 tapes to DVD Disc, DVD Folder or ISO Files.

That it, with DVD Creator, you can transfer Digital 8 Video tapes to DVD with only 3 steps. Now, just enjoy watching your own made Digital 8 movie on your DVD player or TV with large screen or backup!

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I'd suggest a Canopus ADVC-110 converter. I convert analog video frequently with one of these units and the quality is great. A step up would be a Canopus ADVC-300 which provides controls to help clean up degraded video. For only 30 tapes, I don't think I'd bother with an internal capture card unless you have other reasons to go that direction.
If you're going to convert to DV, then iMovie08 and iMovie09 are NOT the apps to use. Use iMovie06 or Final Cut Express. Your profile indicates you are using Snow Leopard, so FCE4 is probably your only choice. I don't think iMovie06 will work on SnowLeopard.
You may be able to use a Digital8 camcorder and if you can still find one it will probably give you better results than using an external converter because you would avoid having to use an analog connection from a Hi8 camcorder to a converter or a miniDV camcorder. (Most of the old Hi8 camcorders only had a composite video output. By playing a Hi8 tape in a Digital8 camcorder you eliminate that analog conversion in the workflow.)

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