Sony Hi8 camera is a simulator before 2000. It is impossible to use the 1394 card because this camera has no 1394 interface. It needs to convert analog signals into digital signals, and there are two conversion methods:

1。 You need an analog acquisition card (not 1394 card) installed in the computer. The output of the power amplifier interface of your computer is connected to the card, which is converted and collected by the computer. Professional acquisition cards are more expensive. You can buy a TV card with Philips chips, with an A/V input, probably within 200 yuan. He also has this function (ask when you buy it). In this way, you can get VCD or DVD MPG files directly from the computer.

2。 In recent two years, many types of dv have input function. (For example, Panasonic's GS series, some Canon products and so on. ) Use the menu to adjust the analog output port of DV to the input state, play it on your old machine, record it on DV tape (use DV as a video recorder), and then use digital DV to collect it through 1394 port and 1394 card. Just do it, it takes twice as long (transcription, collection), but it can solve the problem, and I did it.

If an MPG file is formed, it can be edited by audio-visual software and made into a DVD disc.

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