Ron Hunter
June 19th, 2007, 05:29 AM
(I searched on this topic but didn't find anything.)
I have a 7 year old D8 camcorder and approximately 50 D8 tapes. The cam still works but it won't last forever, and unfortunately, it appears that Sony & Hitachi don't make D8 anymore. I have made many home movies with Premiere 5.1 and 6.5, but I now have Premiere Elements 3.0 because Premiere 6.5 doesn't work on my new PC with Vista.
I would like to archive my D8 tapes into a format that I can view after the D8 cam dies. My options seem to be:
- buy another D8 cam while I can get them and hold off the decision for another 5-7 years.
- buy a MiniDV cam and "hope" that the FireWire output of my D8 cam will be accepted as an input to the MiniDV cam (I have no idea about this), then record tape-to-tape.
- pull all of the footage into the PC, export the footage as AVI and create multiple DVDs from each AVI (I haven't tried this but Roxio says it can span large files over multiple DVDs). I could also "print to tape" to a new MiniDV cam.
- buy multiple HDDs for my PC and save each 13GB (1-hour tape) AVI file on them.
(BTW, I'm saying MiniDV because I suspect it will be around a lot longer than D8. I have no interest in recording to a DVD camcorder because I know you can't easily edit MPEG2 video.)
Do any of you have a better solution for me to consider?
Thanks for any help you can provide!!
Ron
I have a 7 year old D8 camcorder and approximately 50 D8 tapes. The cam still works but it won't last forever, and unfortunately, it appears that Sony & Hitachi don't make D8 anymore. I have made many home movies with Premiere 5.1 and 6.5, but I now have Premiere Elements 3.0 because Premiere 6.5 doesn't work on my new PC with Vista.
I would like to archive my D8 tapes into a format that I can view after the D8 cam dies. My options seem to be:
- buy another D8 cam while I can get them and hold off the decision for another 5-7 years.
- buy a MiniDV cam and "hope" that the FireWire output of my D8 cam will be accepted as an input to the MiniDV cam (I have no idea about this), then record tape-to-tape.
- pull all of the footage into the PC, export the footage as AVI and create multiple DVDs from each AVI (I haven't tried this but Roxio says it can span large files over multiple DVDs). I could also "print to tape" to a new MiniDV cam.
- buy multiple HDDs for my PC and save each 13GB (1-hour tape) AVI file on them.
(BTW, I'm saying MiniDV because I suspect it will be around a lot longer than D8. I have no interest in recording to a DVD camcorder because I know you can't easily edit MPEG2 video.)
Do any of you have a better solution for me to consider?
Thanks for any help you can provide!!
Ron