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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (82451)	7/6/2013 12:25:26 AM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

I have a Sony Hi8 and I converted some video last month with ROXIO Video Capture USB, but my camera is really fricked up, it works, then it stops, keeps doing that, don't know what the problem is. I may have to get them professionally done. There is a guy in my city that does them out of his house, will convert them to any format you want, just give him the tapes and an external hard drive to store the videos on. Look into companies that do this type of work, they are out there. The color is bad on my conversions, not sure if its the old Hi8 tapes or the screwed up camera.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (82451)	7/6/2013 12:33:35 AM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110631

Funny. I just started a similar project to convert my HI8 tapes to digital - I've got in the neighborhood of about 50 of them. I have an old Video Director that would convert the tapes to VHS but that doesn't help now. I still have my HI8 camera and have hooked the camera up to the TV, which makes very nice viewing. I tried recording the TV screen using my iPad and the result is okay - you can see what's going on - but it isn't optimal - and it's hard to hold the iPad steady for any length of time. My next attempt will be to put my digital camera on a tripod and record the TV screen that way. It will be a production: RCA cables running from the TV to the camera; camera set up in VCR mode and operated with a remote control. Digital camera on a tripod pointed at the TV. Edit as I go along. Then transfer the result via SD card to the computer. Then upload to YouTube so family and friends can see them. These go back 20-25 years.