I promised my uncle that the mighty knowledge of Locostbuilders could help him with this! So please uphold our honour!

He has about 20 of this type of tape:


Tape


with footage of his kids as youngsters etc. etc.

His original camera he took them on is broken and he'd like to load the films onto his PC.

To 'send them off' somewhere to be done is about £20 per tape!

I don't even know what this type of tape is so I'm having trouble finding much on the web.

Any cunning ideas on how to get them on the PC?

Is there some sort of USB drive they'll work in? Or is it a case of finding a camera on ebay and installing a TV card in the PC and faffing around that way?

Any help greatfully received!

Thanks!

James

[Edited on 30/12/09 by James]

8mm Mini DV

Actually - that's wrong, it's not mini DV.
Can't remember what the competitor to that was.

Geezaminit.

[Edited on 30/12/09 by zilspeed]

Done this on a Sony Ruvi a while back.

Don't know much about the tapes.
Says 8mm on the edge, must be a clue.

Get a video camera/player, must be cheap buy now.
Then a USB or TV capture card is next.
And a fast PC.
If you get stuck on the latter I have a TV card and a USB capture stick, and I'm in Surrey if you need any help or too borrow bits.

Martin

Video 8 IIRC.

Its a normal 8mm camcorder tape.

There were 2 formats at the time - vhsc and 8mm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_video_format

Its pre mini dv which are much smaller.

David

ETA one of my mates runs Impact Videos:

http://www.impactvideos.co.uk/

And he might be able to transfer them for you for a reasonable price. Get in touch with him and tell him I sent you Theres info in his 'other services' page about what he can convert and transfer.

[Edited on 30/12/09 by flak monkey]

Hi8 ?

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Hi8 ?

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An option might be to go for a Digi8 camera ( double check it can play analogue tapes ) should let you do analogue to digital conversion on the fly.

You can connect it to a PC via firewire for capture direct to the PC as a DV .AVI file which you can edit as needed and output to dvd etc

this is a pretty good site as well...

http://www.videohelp.com/dvanalog

my parents borrowed a D8 camera from a friend and converted all their old hi8 tapes without any problems....

[Edited on 30/12/09 by Tartanpimpernel]

yeah it a hi8 tape we have hundreds

i thought you could get a vhs tape that those 8mm tapes fitted into. you then just stick it in the video player and watch it.

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i thought you could get a vhs tape that those 8mm tapes fitted into. you then just stick it in the video player and watch it.

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easy way to transfer is to use the original camera and play it out to the PC

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i thought you could get a vhs tape that those 8mm tapes fitted into. you then just stick it in the video player and watch it.

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Yep its Hi8, its what im still using! your gonna need a older camcorder to play the tape, its easy to shoot onto pc with a firwire card and software (vista has its own) easy to do

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Originally posted by ashg
i thought you could get a vhs tape that those 8mm tapes fitted into. you then just stick it in the video player and watch it.

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Nope that was for the VHS-c tapes

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You can use this camcorder with a firewire cable to connect to your PC to download to Harddrive.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-8MM-HandyCam-Camcorder_W0QQitemZ190360871176QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_Camcorders?hash=item2c52646108 r />
HTH's

.............Neil