Celica Forums General Discussion General Help with video?

I have some pretty cool shit on video camera and was wondering if theres anyway of transferring it to the computer?

It records to a Hi8 tape, it also has S-video out. I have a graphics card that supports S-video.

Help anybody

Nobody knows

what brand/model is it?

newer video cameras have a firewire (its called i.link on sony cameras) port to link it to the computer. You will get digital output and 1:1 backup if you use firewire method.

if you don't have firewire you can get a analog video capture device. Here are some http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1428. Picture quality is lost a bit but it gets the job done.

if you have a s-video out on your camera and your graphics card supports you will be fine, what you need is windows movie maker or some other editing program, these will help you capture and work with your recorded data. I'm a video major so if you have any other questions ask away

It's an older Sony HandyCam. It records on to a Hi8 tape. I would need to get an analog video capture device like you stated above. But, since I have a graphics card that supports S-video, I should be able to capture it through Windows Movie Maker like sickcelica696 said. I'll give it a try and let you guys know... Thanks again

Well, I connected the S-video cable from the video camera to the S-video port on the graphics card. Rebooted, started Windows Movie Maker and I can't get my recorded video.

Did I miss something?

DisGqBoi:

I looked at the analog video capture devices and don't know which one to get

What would you recommend?

what kind of graphics card do you have, i think some cards have only out for s-video but im not sure.

It's a Nvidia GeForce FX 5200