HOW TO CONVERT CAMCORDER TAPES
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EmailAddress said:
geek84 said:
Hi
I'm not very IT literate.
How do I do that?
Thanks
Some sort of cable to connect the Camcorder to your computer...I'm not very IT literate.
How do I do that?
Thanks
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Then QuickTime or some recording software should see you right.
Have a watch of this and see what some look like compared to a higher quality option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NuquTDhjGY
Depending on how many tapes you have, I would be tempted to send them to a professional digital conversion service for about £6 per tape. They will likely be using some kind of professional Sony system for the transfer like this:
https://www.ghsmedia.co.uk/product/hi8/
Edited by Mont Blanc on Wednesday 1st May 13:46
I've used this chap for scanning photo negatives, very good service. They also seem to plenty of camcorder tapes: https://mrscan.co.uk/digital-video-film-scanning-s...
geek84 said:
Hi Folks
I have some HI 8 camcorder tapes which I would like to put on another storage medium.
Can you kindly suggest anything?
Thanks in advance
If you can get access to a Digital8 camcorder (almost as old as Hi8 and probably even rarer now) then it should auto-digitise the tapes on playback, with the output going over firewire.I have some HI 8 camcorder tapes which I would like to put on another storage medium.
Can you kindly suggest anything?
Thanks in advance
Sporky said:
Road2Ruin said:
It would be quicker, cheaper and far far easier to take them to your local camera shop and let them do it.
What if they're, erm, "candid"? In the mid 1990's, I remember a friends Dad having to take the family VCR to a repair shop because their son (my friend) had ended up getting a full VHS cassette of hardcore smut wrapped round the rollers inside.... the bloke in the repair shop was apparently totally unfazed...
Mont Blanc said:
In the mid 1990's, I remember a friends Dad having to take the family VCR to a repair shop because their son (my friend) had ended up getting a full VHS cassette of hardcore smut wrapped round the rollers inside.... the bloke in the repair shop was apparently totally unfazed...
Superb!I wonder whether it was the dad or the son who was more embarrassed...
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