[MacDV] Re: Analog Video to Digital

[Mark M. Florida]

As far as I know, the Digital8 camcorders work the same way as well...  
At least when I play my old analog Video8 and Hi8 tapes they are 
"stabilized" like a TBC would do.  The Digital8 Walkman sounds like a 
cool device, and might be better for editing (sturdier play/record 
mechanisms), but for the money, it might be better to just get a 
Digital8 camcorder and use that to play back and monitor analog 8mm 
video tapes -- *and* get a new camcorder in the process!  ;-)

Hope this helps.

- Mark

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 03:46  PM, Richard Brown wrote:

> The quality of video on a computer monitor should not be used to gage 
> the quality of a DV stream. Only a monitor or TV can show you the 
> reality of the digitized video. However, you must be able to put the 
> DV stream up on such a monitor or TV. ("Monitor" refers to a 
> professional monitor, like the Sony PVM-14M4U, and "TV" refers to a 
> standard television.) Sony 8mm and Hi 8mm video can be encoded 
> perfectly to DV using the Sony Video Walkman GV-D800, which has the 
> benefit of a Time Base Corrector, or "TBS" (in short, both Hi 8 and 
> Regular 8 video are tremendously improved through a time base 
> corrector, which corrects for many of the common analog problems, 
> turning what may appear as unacceptable video when played back through 
> other means to acceptable video for editing.)
>
> The Sony GV-D800 plays back (with TBC) Regular 8mm and Hi 8mm video, 
> as well as Digital 8, records as well, and provides a DV stream I/O 
> through 1394 Firewire to and from your firewire Mac, plus provides 
> throughput to a monitor or TV. Of interest, the GV-D800 is a video 
> walkman, meaning it does have an LCD monitor built in, which can be 
> handy for a rough cut in the field with a PowerBook. We have this unit 
> for the oddball 8mm tape which do show up from time to time, and have 
> brought it to distant field edits, as described, and regarding the 8mm 
> performance, it is very acceptable to excellent, and replaces the need 
> to suffer the pragmatic cost of a higher end 8mm deck. It is in the 
> $800 range.
>
> Richard Brown
>
>
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