Changing 8mm video cassettes to dvd?

Hi Daza,

Thee is an adapter lead you can buy to connect your camera to a computer to transfer the video, cost about $100 from harvey norman, works quite well. If your camera isn't working then maybe your only option is to get a video editing company to do it. do a google search for your city and I'm sure you will find plenty of places to do it.

Cheers
Evan

Daza

bben looking at the same thing myself.......have found these on Ebay which are pretty good value i think.

video to dvd converters

Daza,

We experienced this exact problem last year.
Our 8mm Sony Video camcorder bleep itself. Apart from a Video Editing Company doing the job (very expensive) there was no other option as the 8mm format was unique and you cannot use an adaptor to play the tape through another recorder or buy a stand alone recorder that accepts the 8mm format.

SWMBO was the clever person who happened onto our solution.
We went along to our local Cash Converters store and they had a few different second hand 8mm recorders to choose from.
We selected one for around the $100 mark and proceeded to do what we had done before our original camcorder stopped working. Simply connect it to the DVD recorder and capture the output, then copy it to a DVD.

Sony quoted us something like $200 plus to replace components on the circuit board on the old camcorder.


Bill.

My thoughts The same 8mm home video players were made and may still be around. They should be verrrrrrry cheap.

However NOTHING is cheap at Crash Converters.

Dick smith carries an adapter, it is in a radio shack package. you might be lucky in getting from a store. I can't remeber what the cat number is!!!!!

Daza, Some good and very important advice... Dont disgard your tapes after you move them to DVD. Be aware that burnt DVD's may only be good for 5 years and possibly up to 10 years if you store them correctly as they are ink based and are not the same as a commercially made DVD/s which has a life of around 100 years, some manufacturers think.. Remember, if your old magnetic 8 mm tapes get a little faded or tardy from old age or get jammed in your video camera, you can still repair them and watch them but if you scratch a DVD or dont store them properly or they fail to run in your DVD player for any reason, you have nothing.. My advice is to copy and or edit (its time consuming and hard work) to DVD and then buy a good quality external hard drive big enough to fit all you prized movies on and if you have kids, do another hard drive for them in case yours is stolen or the house burns down, you still have a copy.. Copying your tapes to VHS is still a good option but a little bulky. All your original 8mm tapes should be fast forwarded every year or so, so they dont ghost and lose their clarity, im not sure what the term is but it has something to do with the magnetic tape sitting in the same position for long periods of time. Hope this helps. Michael

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