Hey!
So long story short my dad just retired and he wants to digitize his lifelong collection of hi8 tapes.
I’ve read a lot of things last few days but I’m still not sure what would be the best option (budget friendly…) for the setup.
Currently he’s been watching those tapes on TV with the sony CCD TRV78E camera, connected with both s-video and RCAs with an HDMI converter (https://amzn.eu/d/05vz9SBs) and everything’s working ok…
I’m not great at these matters and I’m a bit lost tbh, but my initial idea was to plug the HDMI to a computer and record the screen as the movies are playing with a video capture sofware… which I now doubt to be an option because HDMI port on pcs don’t receive signal, is this right?
Idk if the best option would be getting a camera that has the FireWire port and plays hi8 tapes or if it would be better to do this any other way, but I’ve read about those usb things not getting so much quality and I’m worried about it.
Right now movies are playing in a 55” TV with good image quality and audio is perfectly synchronized, if this is relevant info in any way.
He’s really motivated to do this by himself as he now have a lot of free time, but ofc this means that I’ll have to learn how to do it and teach him so he can continue by himself.
Sorry, this was a long story after all, and sorry for some eventual english mistake as well!