Many Tapes to Archive

Plasticman

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Jan 23, 2020 21:03

I have many hours of home & vacation video on Hi8 & Mini DV which I need to archive. I have used Power Director 17 and am familiar with camera connection for capture and Hard Drive storage with Windows 10. I want to copy 60 minute tapes to a hard drive and be able to 1) play back the unedited video on the PC and maybe burn a DVD and, 2) be able to upload (recapture?) from the HD to Power director to edit in the future. How is this best done? Do I have to process through the editor software? What is batch capture?

PepsiMan

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Jan 27, 2020 14:39

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BarryTheCrab

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Jan 28, 2020 05:59

For DV, it's a 1 to 1 copy.
For Hi-8, I suggest you find a camera with TBC and S-video out, and capture lossless to HuffYUV codec. Huge files but it can be run through PD and ColorDirector for fixes, and your resulting file will still be "first generation".
More work, yes, but far fewer compression artifacts than a second generation video file.
If your Hi-8 is jumpy, or has wiggles/flagging/tearing, and you do not have a TBC you can get an ES-10 or ES-15 Panasonic DVD recorder, but use it as a pass-thru, do not record with it. The Panny acts like a poor man's TBC. Not perfect but far better than nothing.

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Plasticman

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Jan 28, 2020 10:22

Quote welcome to the forum.
how to How do I use batch capture in PowerDirector . get you started it...

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'

Thank you, that's helpful.

Plasticman

Newbie Joined: Jan 23, 2020 20:33 Messages: 3 Offline

Jan 28, 2020 10:35

Quote For DV, it's a 1 to 1 copy.
For Hi-8, I suggest you find a camera with TBC and S-video out, and capture lossless to HuffYUV codec. Huge files but it can be run through PD and ColorDirector for fixes, and your resulting file will still be "first generation".
More work, yes, but far fewer compression artifacts than a second generation video file.
If your Hi-8 is jumpy, or has wiggles/flagging/tearing, and you do not have a TBC you can get an ES-10 or ES-15 Panasonic DVD recorder, but use it as a pass-thru, do not record with it. The Panny acts like a poor man's TBC. Not perfect but far better than nothing.

Thats good information. I'll have to get my Pana WJ-AVE5 mixer out of mothballs and try it for the Hi-8.

Still the question remains, is there a way to archive an entire Mini-DV tape direct to a PC HD without having to capture through an editing program?

tomasc

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Jan 28, 2020 11:02

WinDV