Capture Hi8 Video

I find a missing Sony Hi8 Vidoe tape.  The Video Capturing device I still have is KWorld VS-USB2800D DVD Make USB2.0.  It comes with a Windows XP video capturing software PVR-PLUS which cannot be used on my MacBook Pro obviously.
1) Can I still use the KWorld VS-USB2800D device?  What software / apps are available on OS X Mountain Lion?  e.g. iMovie. 
2) Or is there any recommendation for a simple but compatible app I can purchase from the Mac App Store?  
3) If I need to buy another video capturing device?  Which one?
4) What is the best quality of output should I choose for the video capturing?

Are you using the DV Convert capture setting in FCE?  And as you've discovered, the tape must be playing when you hit the NOW button - not the other way around.
-DH

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    I have been capturing Hi8 tapes of our family, using a Sony analog-to-digital converter and Adobe Premier 10's NTSC Standard (4:3) preset. However, when I use Premiere Elements 10 to burn the digital files to DVDs and then play them on a Sony DVD player and Bravia flat-panel TV, the video is distorted in width automatically by the Wide Zoom mode. The TV cannot be configured to display the frames in the Normal Mode because the resolution is 720p, so the images cannot be viewed with the original 4:3 frame aspect ratio.
    After much experimentation, I tried capturing a tape in the NTSC Wide (16:9) preset. When I started to burn the AVI file to a DVD, I got a warning that I was using the wrong format, and the choice to correct the format.  I chose NO, and then burned the DVD. To my surprise, it did display on the TV without horizontal stretch, and the images did not appear to have been noticeably degraded.
    I would very much appreciate knowing if there is some way for me to go back now and have Premiere Elements 10 somehow reformat all of the Hi8 tapes I captured using the NTSC Standard preset, so that I don't have to recapture them, but can simply reformat them and burn them to DVD's that can be displayed on the TV without being distorted?

    Thanks for replying Steve.  I've been using a Sony DVMC-DA2, an analog-to- digital media converter which I was advised is used by people converting media professionally. I've been using an S-Video cable to connect it to my Sony Hi8 video camera (Model CCD-TR101), which was considered to be a high-end camera, back in the day (1992). The converter is connected to my Windows 7 computer with an IEEE 1394, "FireWire" cable. I'm not sure how I would check the format into which the Hi8 video is being converted, but I've followed the Adobe Premiere 10 Video Tutorial and configured the capture preset to the NTSC Standard (4:3), which is the one recommended for DV cameras. I couldn't find any advice specifically explaining how to configure the preset when converting analog Hi8 to digital.
    In the Premiere Elements 10 editing software itself, the video images burned on a DVD are not distorted, and the quality of the video images during editing looks to be every bit as good as the camera could record.
    When I started showing the DVD's to my family, however, I was very disappointed to discover that everything looked stretched in the horizontal direction. I have since studied the configuring of frame aspect ratio modes (Normal, Zoom, Wide Zoom and Full) described in the Sony Bravia TV's instruction manual, in detail. And, I have tried every conceivable combination of the picture and frame settings to see if I could "unstretch' the video images. No, luck. It was then that I came across a footnote that indicated that the Normal mode was not available for video resolutions of 720p, 1080 and higher. Unfortunately, the NTSC Standard preset indicates that it does capture DV in images that have 720 horizontal pixels by 480 vertical pixels.
    When I view the Hi8 burned to DVD's on other computers, using Windows Media Player and Video Lan, they are not distorted. In fact, they look so good that I'm just about ready to dedicate my laptop as the DVD player for my TV set!  It was while contemplating whether there might be a way to avoid doing this, that it occured to me to try capturing some Hi8 tape using the NTSC Wide Screen preset option. My half-formed idea was that, since the ratio of pixel width to pixel height in the Standard preset was smaller than with the Widescreen preset, using the latter to capture an analog video image might either (1) expand the width of the overall image much farther, and cause grotesque distortion, or (2) squash the width of the overall image, so that it looked normal. I can't pretend to have known what I was doing, since I don't understand video recording technology, but it also occured to me that the Widescreen preset might degrade the resolution, so that it was somehow no longer 720p, and thereby possibly circumvent the Sony lockout of the Normal Mode for these DVD's. Whatever it did, capturing Hi8 video with the NTSC Widescreen preset did, indeed, reduce the width of the frames appearing on the TV Screen, so that they apperared normal.
    The question with which I'm now wrestling is whether to go back and re-capture all of the Hi8 tapes, with the NTSC Widescreen preset, that I had already captured with the NTSC Standard preset - a big job. The warning window that popped-up when I prepared to burn the test video captured with the Widescreen preset gave me the option of correcting my "mistaken" choice of capture preset. I declined, and was rewarded with an undistorted video image. Which raises the possibility that, somewhere in Premiere Elements 10, there may be the capability of invoking that same pop-up window and modifying what the software considers to be the "correct," Standard preset to the Widescreen preset,so that I can change the formatting for all of the HI8 tapes I've already captured, so that they can be burned to DVD's and viewed in their proper frame aspect ration.
    This has been a long-winded follow-up to your initial answer to my question, but I would very much appreciate any further suggestions.
    Many thanks.  Paul

  • Hi8 Video Capture

    I'm trying to capture Hi8 video in my Macbook Pro 17 (OS 10.5.8). I have connected my Hi8 tape deck
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    in the capture window simply brings up a black window rather than showing video coming out of the Hi8 deck as
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    Are you using the DV Convert capture setting in FCE?  And as you've discovered, the tape must be playing when you hit the NOW button - not the other way around.
    -DH

  • Why can't I get any audio sound on my Hi8 video capture in iMovie?

    Hi
    I have just captured some video clips from my Hi8 Camcorder and exported it to iMovie on my Apple Mac. Unfortunately there is no audio sound on the captured video. Can any one help? I am using Roxio Video Capture USB to capture the video from my camcorder.
    Nazimoja

    >I am using Roxio Video Capture USB
    That's the problem.  The Roxio device captures in a highly compressed, multiplexed (muxed) format that isn't intended for editing.  Muxed files won't playback audio without the proper software installed on your system.  You could try using MPEG Streamclip to convert the captured files to an editable format, but that means you'll be taking a double hit on quality.
    The proper way to capture analog footage for editing is to use a  qualified "DV Device" (DV camcorder, converter or VTR) to convert the analog signal into a Firewire signal and use iMovie, FCE or FCP to capture and edit.  Or, in your case, you could use a Digital8 camcorder for playback directly via Firewire.
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  • Solutions to importing VHS and Hi8 video to iMovie6?

    I would like to import into my G4 tower with OS10.5 my old VHS and Hi8 videos for editing in iMovie 06. I've tried creating a DVD first but iMovie doesn't recognize it from the internal DVD player or as a file. I tried shareware Rippers but not able to import the results into iMovie.
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    Check out the Canopus AVDC110 digital video converter. http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php?lang=EN

  • Capturing Hi8 A/V through Digital8 Camcorder - FCP preset question

    After putting this off for years (so long that I forgot what to do) I am finally getting around to loading the old family library of Hi8 video footage shot in the 80's and 90's with a Canon A1 through a Sony DCR-TRV320 to do the analog to video conversion enroute to the Mac through FCP 6. After trial and error I have fumbled my way through the appropriate camcorder settings (Analog Video Out conversion to Digital Video Out, Audio bit rate changed from 12 bit to 16 bit) to eliminate the audio sampling rate mismatch error I was getting in FCP after Capture Now imports.
    My latest test loaded OK with no errors. I am still left wondering if I should change the audio frequency preset in FCP. I can't find authoritative info on what audio frequency the original Hi8 material was recorded in. Changing the bit rate from 12 to 16 on the Sony camcorder fixed the FCP mismatch error I was getting, but I wonder if I am screwing with the sound by leaving the FCP preset at 48 kHz. If the Hi8 material was recorded at a lower frequency, will the audio be OK if FCP is importing it at 48 kHz? It sounds OK but I haven't done a headphone test. Just wondering if I have to create a special preset at a lower frequency or just leave it alone, now that I solved the bit rate problem.
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    Thank you all for the expert advice. I just found the manual for the Sony camcorder used for the analog to digital conversion and it lists two modes for its PCM system 1) 12 bits/32 kHz, 2) 16 bits/48 kHz. If I understand you correctly, it doesn't matter how the audio was laid down by the Canon A1 analog, since the Sony is converting it to 16/48 (or 12/32 which was my problem earlier, before toggling the Sony menu setting). Is that right?

  • How to capture hi8 super8?

    Hi,
    I have my Imac connect to a Dv converter what has S-video and composite. Now i would like to Be able to capture Super video, Video8 and Hi8.
    I don't know much about what play i have to get to work. Is there anyone who can tell me, if there is a unique player that are able to play it all? I really need some help.
    Thanks

    Super 8 is an 8mm Cine (film) format. Recording Super8 to DV and/or DVD requires equipment that can project the film and a video recorder. At the low end of the spectrum people will simply play the Super8 from a film projector, point a video camera at the screen and record away. The higher end equipment gives the operator more control over how the frames are recorded.
    To do it very well involves some specialized equipment and a high degree of skill.
    An example of the lower (do it yourselfer...) end of things.
    (The link is in no way an endorsement - it was the first item that popped up in a googe search of " telecine equipment'.)
    x

  • Downloading Hi8 video

    Hi there,
    I have an old Sony Video Hi8 Handycam, Model CCD-TRV58. What do I need to download/transfer my Hi8 videos onto my MacBook? I am hoping I do not need a special converter box.
    Thanks!

    There's a more fundamental challenge. The MacBook does not have a FireWire port, so none of the AV-DV converters is going to be usable.
    You could use and Elgato EyeTV250Plus to capture the video from your camcorder (it's USB based, not FireWire). This will be fine for viewing or burning the video to DVD. It's not particularly useful if you want to edit your video, however (due to the format/codec the EyeTV converts video to). But for viewing you will be happy with the quality.

  • Capturing HI8 tapes: Date/Time

    Hi all,
    I recently started to capture my HI8 tape collections from an old HI8 Video Cam via Fire Wire into Premiere Pro CC 2014.
    The data/time when the footage was taken is visible for around 3 to 5 seconds in the Camcorder display at the beginning of each tape
    but it's not visible anymore if the media is imported into Premiere. Is there any chance to make the date/time stamp visible? Is there
    a setting that I may have overseen or any chance to add it manually?
    Thanks a lot

    No version of Premiere (Pro or Elements) will work with ANY device that does not connect to a Firewire port
    EXCEPT... you may buy a card (I think Blackmagic is one) and then use the device driver supplied by the vendor to "link" the card to Premiere (I did this back in 2002 with a Pinnacle DV500 card)
    Premiere will NOT work with a USB device... as I said above... you may use a TI chip for adding a firewire card http://forums.adobe.com/thread/940242 to then use something like a Grass Valley product

  • Premier Elements 8 unable to detect HI8 video camera

    I am running windows 8 and have just loaded in Adobe Premiere Elements 8 and the program does not recognize my Media source which is a Sony HI8 Video camera Model CCD-TRV328 NTSC (Which is a 8mm video tape recorder). I am using Dazzle DVC100 as an interface.Is there any way I can get Elements 8 to recognize my media source>>>>

    Am I correct that the Sony is an analog tape camera, and not Digital 8?
    If so, then it will be the Dazzle, that PrE will need to see. Unfortunately, many users have never gotten the Dazzle units to function well. Once, Dazzle was sold by Pinnacle (might still be by Pinnacle's parent company, AVID), and usually bundled with some form of Pinnacle Studio - even when using that, many users never got the Dazzles to work. See the Pinnacle/AVID forums, to see if that has gotten better.
    I would do the capture through the Pinnacle/AVID software, if you got that, and Save the captured files to DV-AVI Type II, if the Pinnacle/AVID can do that. Then, Import that into PrE for editing.
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  • Transferring Hi8 video to iMovie to DVD

    Contrary to the popular mythology that using Mac's is intuitive, mine is missing the simple single icon in iMovie "Convert Hi8 video to iMovie and then to DVD". I could hope that there would be one simple action to perform that function but having worked with computer programmers for years I know they don't think that way. I have jumped through a myriad of flaming hoops trying to convert an hour-long Hi8 video tape from my Sony digital camera to our new iMac computer and then saving it to a DVD (hopefully a DVD+R because I have a warehouse full of them). However, after numerous attempts and using our brand new Maran Illustrated user manual (whose listed icons don't match those actually found on our machine)and trial and error (with error exceeding success) I have been able to load the video onto my hard drive but can't yet burn it to a DVD. I have reached the point where a baseball bat through the monitor seems appropriate for reducing my stress and frustration. Thus to prevent a sizable casualty loss could someone please advise me of a simple, straightforward description of the steps necessary to perform the process described above. Then as soon as I can locate my missing iDVD icon from the pop-up bar at the bottom of my screen I can proceed with preserving my cherished old videos.
    Sincerely,
    A PC User Not Yet Convinced of the Ease of iMac Use

    Hello, rocky,
    Welcome to the discussions! Karsten is correct...you are a good writer!
    It should not be that difficult to accomplish what you wish. Some have directly imported the Hi8 video into iMovie from their Hi8 digital camcorders. However, if yours is not digital, you will need to first capture it to DV tape and then import that into iMovie. If you already have the video in your computer, do you mean that the clips are in iMovie?
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    As far as the type of disk to use, iDVD 6 can burn to + or -, but most of us recommend DVD-R for best burning. Also, the type of media can make a big difference. Verbatim is one of the best.
    Post back if you have more problems or if what I have written is not so clear...after all, it is 2am here Much better than bashing your monitor...it is not the monitor's fault....!

  • Unable to capture analog video.

    Hi,
    I am running Premier Pro CS3 on a Windows XP machine. This is a new machine to me provided by my work. I am trying to capture analog video from a VHS deck that has both S-video and composite outs. The IT folks installed an ATI TV Wonder HD 650 PCI Digital & Analog TV Tuner to use as a capture card. In the device manager it shows up as an ATI Radeon HD2400 card. I don't have anyway of discerning the difference, and this may or may not be the main issue. When I open Premier and try to capture, it does not recognize the card as a capture device. Any clues about how to make this work would be great.
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    Premiere Pro does not natively capture from TV or graphics cards.
    You will find links to many
    free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
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  • Unable to properly capture HD video from miniDV tape in FCE

    unable to capture HD video from miniDV tape
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    *Capture window. You can still log and capture, but you need to use your HDV camcorder*
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