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Miscellaneous => General Off-Topic => Topic started by: Mark of the Dragon on March 21, 2005, 02:37:43 PM

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Post by: Mark of the Dragon on March 21, 2005, 02:37:43 PM: Ok, my group in US history is doing a video for our project. Simple enough, right? WRONG! I'm stuck with doing the editing, and the guy who gave me the tape gave me an HGX tape, and my camcorder takes Hi-8 / Digital 8! And what's worse...I can't record anything from my VCR to my camcorder for some odd reason. If I could, I would so do that! If anyone could help me out TODAY, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Post by: Aminaga on March 21, 2005, 02:40:24 PM: Sorry, MotD. No help from me.
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Post by: Mark of the Dragon on March 21, 2005, 02:49:38 PM: OH, THANKS FOR A USELESS POST! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T POST IN THIS TOPIC UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO AT LEAST TRY TO BE HELPFUL!
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Post by: Tosoto on March 21, 2005, 02:58:04 PM: How about asking the guy who gave it to you

and heed your own advice
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Post by: Mark of the Dragon on March 21, 2005, 02:59:49 PM: He doesn't know anything about converting the two, and about your heeding the advice comment, I'm a little too pissed to be taking advice right now.
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Post by: AlienDude on March 21, 2005, 03:28:37 PM: Ask the kid what cam he used and to borrow it, you will probably have to use it, cant you hook yours up to the other one and record that way?? I did a quick net search and all i found were service sites.

His(play)-------yours(record)
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Post by: Spyder on March 21, 2005, 10:52:16 PM: Honestly MOTD, I don't think there is an easy way to transfer the video. If you needed to get video off of the Hi8, and put it on the HGX, that wouldn't be a problem, but to get the video on to a Hi8/Digital8 tape, you would have to actually use your camera to record the tape on screen, which would turn out very crappy, or buy a <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006JQQ6/qid=1111466827/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl23/103-5199301-1507820?v=glance&s=photo&n=507846' target='_blank'>Digital 8mm Video Walkman</a>, which will run you over $500. If your going to do video editing on a computer, the best chance you have is to buy a TV tuner card that has RCA inputs (usually $25-50) and connect a VCR to it. Then play the video and record it to your hard drive, and use whatever video editing software you plan on using to edit it.
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Post by: Mark of the Dragon on March 22, 2005, 05:43:38 AM: Well, it's a little late now. Of course, we did decide to just play all the footage in front of class without editing it at all...and I know it's gonna look pretty bad, but we don't exactly have a choice.