Analogue Capture

[Sonnyt]

About :| to reinstall (3rd time) my Pinnacle Studio 10.6 Plus (Titanium) Edition. The software captures my Digital 8 tape from my SONY DCR -TRV 480E with no problem. However I have over 20 Analogue Hi 8 tapes that I would like to 'digitise' via my PC for editing. Can't seem to get Pinnacle to manage the job and as far as Pinnacle support is concerned - well, that s why I ventured on to this site!
Anyone advice on best proceedure would be welcomed.

May thanks
Sonnyt

[WATSIN]

Call sony and find out if your camera has the capabiltiy to digitize your hi8 tape.My 720 model (digital 8) does this.

[turk690]

The DCR-TRV460 can play back analogue Hi8/8mm tapes and output them as a DV stream on the fly from its FireWire port. The TRV480 is presumably a later model but it doesn't guarantee it will behave like the TRV460. It may play back Hi8/8mm analogue tapes but that doesn't necessarily mean it will digitize them and output them as a DV stream.
If the TRV480 can indeed digitize Hi8/8mm tapes and output them as a DV stream from the FireWire port, whatever program is used for capturing should be set to "No DV device control". In this way the transport cues in the stream are not respected by the NLE (irrelevant for our case anyway) and DV stream capture is possible.

[slukaczyk]

You should be able to pop the analog tapes into the camera and capture them the same way as the Digital8 tapes - the TRV 480E has analog pass-through and the capture software won't not know the difference.