Getting video Hi8 8mm tape into MacBook--via another camcorder??

I offered to take the video from our school's music program and put it through its paces in iMovie to make a DVD for the school.
I figured that this would be no problem. I've used the school's Sony Mini DV Digital Handycam (DCR-TRV18) before and simply plugged the firewire cable into my Mac and imported.
I later found out that the video was shot with a different camera--a Sony video Hi8 (CCD-TRV43) that uses 8mm tapes. I'm not even seeing a firewire connection on the camera--just black and yellow audio and video RCA input jacks.
Is there anyway to do what I need to do with these two pieces of equipment? Can I somehow hook the 8mm camera into the mini-DV camera and then into my MacBook via firewire? Sort of the through-put that I hear about?
Since this is for school and a one-time occurrence, I really don't want to have to purchase any additional equipment.

I really don't want to have to purchase any additional equipment.
You may have to.
To get your Sony Hi8 video into iMovie, look at the Canopus ADVC300. Audio and Video go in, FireWire comes out. It also comes with a nice Macintosh application that works flawlessly with iMovie 06 and iDVD 08/09 (I have used it a few times with iMovie 08 and 09).
The program that comes with the ADVC300 has some nice filters that can improve video and audio of the source material. The ADVC300 will take Audio and Video from any source and convert it to FireWire (iMovie will treat it like a camera).
http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC300/index.php
I would use iMovie 06 with iDVD 08/09, why?
iMovie 08/09 uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.
If your primary workflow is editing DV clips and making DVDs, iMovie '06 is better suited. Your movie will arrive at iDVD in DV format, which is an ideal match for making a DVD: same resolution, same pixels aspect ratio, and original quality. If you share your movie from iMovie '08 / 09, it gets re-rendered at 640x480 or less, and then iDVD upscales it back to 720x480. The end result is obviously not as good.
iMovie 06 and iDVD 08/09 is a "lossless" combination.

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