How to convert 8mm video cassette to DVD

[greg555]

Hi, Im Greg. My brother had a camcorder and he lost it. He has some video on tape that He recorded with the camcorder. I dont know what type of camera it was or how old it was. We would like to convert those tapes to DVD somehow.

They are 8mm Video cassettes. TDK HS30. I assume I would have to record them to HD and then convert, but how could I do this?

Could they be played back on another camcorder and recorded with computer? or what other options would I have if any?

I have alienware area 51 notebook with win xp home. I use DVD lab studio, Video redo, TMPGnc, and AVS Video tools.

Any help would be appreciated.

Greg

[guns1inger]

The simplest way, if you can get one, would be a Digital-8 camera that can output DV. Connect this via firewire to your laptop to transfer, then edit (in DV avi format), encode to mpeg-2 and author.

Next option would be to daisy-chain a standard 8mm camera to a DV camera that supports analogue pass-through, and then to the laptop via Firewire, then finsih off as above.

Otherwise you will need an external device of some sort. This could be a USB mpeg-2 encoding capture device, or a standalone analogue to DV converter.