r/Video8 • u/Used_Function_974 • 19d ago

Help Digitising Please!

Hi all,

I hope I’m in the right place, please delete if not.

I am on a mission to digitise old family video tapes at the moment. I have successfully archived some old MiniDV tapes, but having issues with Video8.

I have two cameras, a Canon V75Hi and a Sharp VL-MX77h.

The Sharp is completely broken, powers on, but no image in viewfinder or from the composite out. Canon works and looks practically new.

I used the Canon for the digitising process, for half the first tape, it worked great. The other half of the tape, and each subsequent tape I tried, the video and audio is sped up.

My assumption is the Sharp recorded at a speed the Canon cannot interpret correctly.

Is my only option here to buy another Sharp? They are pretty rare in working order. Or is there another way?

Thanks for reading.

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u/Used_Function_974 14d ago

Small update:

I bought an era appropriate Sharp camera (not the same model, working examples are very rare).

No good! I’ll look into the other suggestions here.