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technical => computers, technology and the internet => Topic started by: chappers on May 17, 2006, 06:56:35 pm

Title: high/digital 8
Post by: chappers on May 17, 2006, 06:56:35 pm

right then...
i have some old clips on high/digital 8, and the camera that they were shot on. plus i have a mac with expressHD.
there is no DV out on the camera, there is av out and s video.
is there any knowledge of how to get clips onto the mac?

thanks
chappers

Title: Re: high/digital 8
Post by: Obi-Wan is lost... on May 17, 2006, 11:50:08 pm

You need a Analogue to Digital convertor. The easy way of doing this is borrowing a DV camera, connecting the AV out from the old camera into the AV-in on the DV camera and copying the clips onto the DV camera. Then you can import with Firewire as normal. Some cameras will act as a proper A-D convertor on the fly, ie. you connect the computer directly to the DV camera and will stream the digital signal directly to the comp. However this is more suspectible to dropped frames etc, and you only save a bit of time.

Alternatively I know some expensive PC tv/graphics cards can handle AV in, which will grab an AV signal in real time, but I've never tried to do this on a Mac.

Title: Re: high/digital 8
Post by: chappers on May 18, 2006, 08:15:30 am

i have a dv camera, but im not convinced it has an av "in" its a sony with USB, Firewire, the regular yellow av socket, and an s video. ill have a look later, thanks for your help mate.