Need help copying miniDV to Digital8

[cp2k]

I've got a Digital8 camcorder and I'm trying to get some video from someone who has a miniDV camcorder onto Digital8 so I can work with it here. He doesn't have access to both kinds of units where he is and I don't have them here so my question is this..

Is there any way to make a direct "copy" of the miniDV tape without going through the whole capturing video process which risks dropped frames and burn this data onto a DVD, then copy it back to a Digital8 tape on my end?

Can you do basically a data to data transfer between the formats like this?

[NightWing]

Only way is to down load it, via firewire, to a DVD disk he can send you.

Or rent a DV camcorder and transfer via firewire the tape.

[VideoTechMan]

D8 is a compatible DV signal, so you can do a digital dub via firewire with no quality loss. Dropped frames are irrelevant. Just connect the miniDV camcorder to the D8 camera via Firewire and have at it.

VTM

[Richard_G]

The easiest way would be to transfer the file by Firewire from a MiniDV camcorder to a Digital8 camcorder but you say you don't have miniDV and the other guy doesn't have Digital8. If he can transfer the file as DV .avi to his computer and burn the DV files to DVD (bearing in mind that you'll only get about 20 minutes DV on a disk), he can then send you the DVD and you can transfer back to your Digital8 camcorder.

As you say you want to get it onto Digital8 so you can 'work on it', I assume you want to be able to transfer it to computer anyway. Doing it this way, it doesn't need to go anywhere near your camcorder, just from his camcorder to a DVD disk (saved as a data file, NOT converted to DVD compliant video).