Generic ? re archiving Hi-8 tapes with an older firewire ready camcorder

Hi All,
and thanks for any advice that you can offer. I have about 10-15 old Hi-8 tapes that include very precious pictures of my children. Tapes that Im not sure that I want to entrust to just any old video transfer shop... I am thinking about picking up a used Sony DCR-TRV510 firewire ready camcorder. My question is...are there any known compatibility issues between iDVD and the older camcorders? I dont see why there should be, but I did want to double check... Thanks so much.

Hi Belab and welcome!
I empathize entirely with you: I have about 25 such tapes, spanning 20 years, which I am busy transfering to DVDs.
(But I would NEVER get rid of the original tapes.)
Basically what you need is a method of transfering what is on those tapes, digitally via firewire, to iMovie. You can either use a digital video camera that is backwards compatible with the analogue 8mm tapes (Sony used to have some, but I don't know if they still do), or you can import from an analogue camera via an analogue-to-digital converter.
The camera connects to the converter via the usual RCA and S-Video cables, and the converter connects to your Mac via 4 pin to 6 pin firewire cable. That is what I do, using the Canopus ADVC110 converter, but there are others on the market.
Once you have edited (or even re-edited!) the original footage in iMovie you can send it to iDVD and subsequent burning on to a DVD.

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