Quote Hi,
I would like to begin digitizing/import hundreds of Sony Video8 tapes (i still have a player and a SCART to HDMI converter) directly with PowerDir 365.Looked around but couldn't find any tutorial.

Any suggestion will be appreciated-Thank you
Piero

What video camera do you have?
What capture device/dongle do you have?
What OS are you using?
Any analog/interlaced tape to HDMI converter will automatically deinterlace and crucify your video, not to mention issues with color and oh my god please go another route> HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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Quote Looked around but couldn't find any tutorial.

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/05_03_00_capturing_media.html from the PD20/365 help(F1) Key. H is the capture button you need with the right adapters suggested.

Thank you Berry,

following my replyes:

What video camera do you have? Sony Handycam But I will usa a Sony Video8 Player to playback tapes
What capture device/dongle do you have? At the moment a SCART to HDMI converter
What OS are you using? Win7 and/or Win10 depending on the PC I will use
Any analog/interlaced tape to HDMI converter will automatically deinterlace and crucify your video, not to mention issues with color and oh my god please go another route --- will give it a try and be back asap


Thank You.
Piero https://www.pieroannoni.com/

Windows 7 is the best choice.
My understanding is you'd get a better playback with an actual camera and less tape-eating.
A nice digital Sony camcorder with TBC.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-capture/10257-video8-hi8-digital8.html
A VC500 or Vidbox, with full control over the Proc amp, and strictly S-video.
Possibly a Panasonic ES10 or ES15 as another tool. It's a DVD recorder but you use it only in pass-thru
as an anti-tearing device, and only when needed. You'll need a factory remote to shut off the overly aggressive
noise reduction.
Capture 720x480, custom bitrate of at least 10 to 12Mbps to give you a little headroom for fixing colors, titles, any process.
Do not resize do not crop, though you can move to center the video in post.
Use a mask to cover the cruddy edges of the overscan.

Personally I use VirtualDub and lossless codecs to capture, Hybrid for more lossless restoration and QTGMC deinterlacing,
and then I use PD to convert to MP4 or sometimes stick with interlaced Mpeg2, or often I make both.
The Mpeg2 is closer in fact because it's interlaced and the high bitrate file would be your archived file.

You will need to check up on PAL equipment and the slight different naming/numbering of models to get the right tools.
If you've really got hundreds of tapes, read up at that other forum I linked, the best in the world for tape capture and processing knowledge.
Never toss those old tapes away. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
https://www.facebook.com/BarryAFTT