I have a sony hi8 camcorder and want to transfer the tapes to DVD?
Can I do this on a DVD HD recorder?
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If the recorder has S-Video input plugs, yes. Otherwise you can do what I do — copy the Hi8 tape to a digital camera mini-tape by hooking the two cameras together with video and audio plugs. Then play back the DVD copy and capture it onto your computer’s hard drive through a firewire interface. Then your computer’s software can burn the DVD.
First you need a capture card to connect the camera to the computer via composite or s-video cable. Many of the TV TUNER packages you can buy will do this. These cards come with software that can be used to convert analog sources to DVD video. ATI products are good, as well as Nvidia, Matrox, and reference manufacturers like Saphire. Depending on which card you get, the process will vary because of the software included. This is the best way to do it is you want to modify the raw footage at all (edit, remove boring footage, add soundtrack titles, credits, etc…). If you just want the entire contents moved to DVD you can also connect the cameras analog output to a home component DVD recorder’s inputs (basically you would have to play the entire tape in the camera while the DVD is recording – it takes a while. If you do not have the time to do either, you might consider having a service do it for you. The last time I researched this there were som prretty reasonable prices for a straight transfer (no editing). Alternatively you can also use either one of these options with a VHS VCR and it works the same.