For Christmas, Santa brought me a new camcorder. (The little Sony I bought in 1993 finally died, which wasn't so bad since it was analog anyway.) It isn't the 'must have' Mini DV format because the main purpose in owning the camera is to convert my 20+ Hi8 tapes to home DVD movies. I figured the cost to have someone do the work for me or to buy a gadget specifically for analog to digital conversion was the same price as the Sony TRV350, and this way I get the bonus of the camera to use for a least a few more years.
If I were one to make New Year's Resolutions, I would resolve to have all of my Hi8 tapes converted by year-end; however, since I am so far from even starting the first 2 steps in this process, I am fairly confident I won't get everything done by this time next year.<sigh>
For starters, I need to figure out what I'm doing. We played around with analog conversion a bit last spring with a borrowed camera, and the results were less than spectacular. I will be spending a lot of time online trying to figure out the best way to go about this. I'll likely start over at The Tong Family Blog where Rich has some pretty good info to get me started. I may just have to go over to Connie's dad's house since he is right up the road from me...
The second part of this adventure involves actually finding my old Hi8 tapes. I am 99% certain they aren't in the apartment anywhere, so that leaves 2 places—storage #1 or storage #2. If they are in storage #1, I won't find them until we move. Yes, it is that bad.
In the meantime, if you have any advice for me I would love to hear it. The comment line is open now...
Posted by heather at January 3, 2004 06:50 PMIf you still need to figure out how to do this, email me. I'll write down my workflow for you.
Posted by: Lam at January 22, 2004 06:00 PM