8mm *MOVIE* film, to digital, to firewire

[Jack Honeycutt]

At 08:22 PM 10/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Since you seem to have a digital camcorder, your best bet is to use it for 
>digitizing
>your 8mm video's.


Bob...

I was not clear in my post.  I am converting 8mm movie *film* that was shot 
in the 1950's and 1960's.  So I have to project it, then capture it with my 
digital camera.  I have done this in Windows, but the bus speed was twice 
as fast, and I had a much more powerful processor.

I know that I can record onto the digital tape what I film with the digital 
video camera, and then feed that into the firewire port of the Mac.

What I don't know is if I can just take a feed from my digital video camera 
and feed it directly into the firewire port with out loosing enough frames 
for it to be noticed.

I also don't know what the difference in quality would be between dumping a 
digital tape image into the firewire port, or skipping the tape and just 
using the digital camera to feed a signal to the firewire port.

I should have been more clear.  I need more coffee! <g> Sorry!

jack