video input adaptor or cheap dv camcorder?

[deadfrog]

Hello,

just want to mess around with some stuff and i was wondering which is likely to give best results and value for money. Dont really want to spend alot as at the moment its really just for fun. Having said this i am doing a graphics degree so it could come in handy.

I have access to a hi8 sony camcorder at pressent and am swayed towards getting the adaptor as then i can import any video signal and if im looking to burn onto dvd i cant push above 640x480 on most anyhow. Although as i have little experiance in this area can someone please offer some advice.

was looking at the ADS Pyro AV Link - api 550...

cheers

 

[chv400]

http://www.elgato.com/
They sell inputs devices that are external.


http://www.miglia.com/products/video/alchemytv/index.html
Is a PCI TV tuner that should be able to take in video

 

[mrgreen4242]

Cant offer to much specific help, but I THINK most/lots of miniDV camcorders can take a regular video signal as an imput and pass it along as a DV data stream. So, in theory, a nice DV camcorder could do both of the things you are looking for.

Rob

 

[Jo-Kun]

if you shot a lot on Hi8 you might considering a cheap Digital8 camera, it has FireWire(DV) out and you can use it to playback older analog tapes and capture them trough FireWire(DV) without any problem

if you didn't shot anything in Hi8 yet... go for the more spread miniDV

or indeed an analog tranformer, but I don't know the good ones, but I think you might recon +400 EURO (541,68 USD) for one of those...

J

 

[deadfrog]

ok, thanks for all your help...

the elgato things look quite pricy... can pick up an analog converter for about £129 which aint too bad.

think i may look into it a bit more and find out how much a minidv camcorder can be picked up for...

cheers.