Newbe looking for advice on a software needed to capture mini dv and Hi 8

[peterellen]

Hi I have a mini dv and Hi 8 digital camera and recently bought an old laptop
windows 7 all divices are firewire. I now want to import all my tapes onto
this laptop. I need to know what kind of software do i need to have to capture
these mant mini dv and Hi 8 tapes I have. My other laptop has adobe elements
which I bought a while back but it dose not have firewire port. Please suggest
any software and how or where I may get it
Peterellen

[jagabo]

DVIO or WinDV. Both free and work well.

[DB83]

What camera(s) are you playing these tapes ?


You can connect the DV straight to your Win7 laptop with a firewire cable and use WinDV for the transfer.


If the Hi 8 camera does not play Digital 8 as well you would require a usb connection capture device or a Canopus ADVC to transfer these also as DV over firewire.