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Analog tape is still king
#1
I started digitizing some Hi8 tapes I had and quickly realized how dense the information is on them and how little physical space they take. Not to mention all the hassle you have to go through to compresse them, at a loss for sure. As long as my camcorder works I think i'll just keep them on tape.
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#2
I was under the impression regular DV format had enough resolution to compete with Hi8 or S-VHS. It doesn't?

Import them into iMoves via whatever you've got that will digitize them ... stored on DVDs they'll be convenient and take up little space. Or a couple of decent-sized HDs, esecially when edited down ... etc.
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#3
[quote deckeda]I was under the impression regular DV format had enough resolution to compete with Hi8 or S-VHS. It doesn't?
Hi8 is DV on 8mm tape. It is superior to S-VHS.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV

BGnR
I am pretty sure he was talking about tape density.
DV video format is 12.66 GB per hour.
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#4
"Hi8 is DV on 8mm tape."

Hi8 is analog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-8

Digital8 is DV on Hi8 tape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital8
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#5
[quote BigGuynRusty][quote deckeda]I was under the impression regular DV format had enough resolution to compete with Hi8 or S-VHS. It doesn't?
Hi8 is DV on 8mm tape. It is superior to S-VHS.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV
No it isn't. Hi8 is a high resolution analog format, similar to the resolution of S-VHS. You are thinking of Digital8, which is DV format signal on an 8mm tape. The video quality on DV or Digital8 is only slightly better than Hi8, but with the digital formats you can do digital editing, whereas you can't do that with the analog formats without conversion. The down side to the Digital8 format is that you can only store a much smaller amount of video on an 8mm tape than you can with Hi8.
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#6
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DCR-DVD105-Ha...17?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

Smile
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#7
[quote BigGuynRusty]Hi8 is DV on 8mm tape.
And yet ANOTHER reason not to listen to Rusty.

Rusty, how many more times (today!) will you prove yourself for what you are--a blowhard?
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#8
What I meant to post.:
"Sony's consumer Digital8 format is another variant, which is similar to DV but recorded on Hi8 tape."

BGnR
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#9
Tape is tape, I would think. You can record whatever you want on it, digital or analog. I was just commenting that converting them to digital was a lot of work. First, imovie cannot import the entire tape in one shot. Another problem was that gaps in tape made imovie stop importing but tape kept running. All this made the process pretty tedious. File sizes are also huge. I have QT Pro which does MPEG4 but makes for a tiny video.
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#10
Two words:

non-linear editing
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