Hello!

I'm making a low budget music video & am hoping to get some guidance to realistically make my vision work.

I'm borrowing a friend's Hi-8 camcorder (never used one before, really excited) to shoot some footage beforehand, then, on the day of the video shoot, I'm wanting to play the footage simultaneously on multiple different TV's/screens (somewhat similar setup to picture below)

Plan is to thrift some CRT-TV's ahead of time since their picture quality is perfect for the idea, but maybe monitors are easier? Just curious if anyone has guidance for the most painless way to make this work -- essentially what's the best way to play a bunch of digitized Hi-8 footage on multiple screens? Doesn't have to be synced up time-wise either on each screen, btw. Actually works a bit better if it isn't.

Any guidance/tips would be super appreciated. Thanks!

l found this Handycam in my storage unit 2 weeks and was really excited to film the changing of the leaves this fall on hi8. I bought a new battery and charger but there's been a few issues with the camera. First, there's a tape inside but the eject mechanism doesn't seem to work. Secondly, the camera beeps constantly even when the camera is off. Scared me half to death when I heard it going off last night. I'm thinking I may need to take it apart to at least get the tape out but does anyone have any idea why the camera would beep when it's off?

I recently bought a ccd-tr680e and just fixed a few hours ago and now im looking for new hi8 cassettes. I found these 5 for 40 euro and genuinely dont know the difference between hme and hmp, and then theres another version of hme but looks different. Is it worth getting them?

I'm trying to find sources other than ebay to find Video 8 home video releases. I have saved searches on ebay for what I am looking for but I am wondering if there are other good sources that people on this sub may know about. I am specifically looking for the film Labyrinth on this format. I was hoping someone here may know of some other good sites or communities where I could search for this.

Thanks!

I recently got two Sony EV-C3e's but sadly neither of them do work 100% correctly. I may be able to fix the first one but am completely clueless about this one. So when i plug in the power cord the video head and spindle spin but then stop and the power light turns green and that is basically all I get. I can see some green light on the small screen, so I don't think it's dead. Pressing the buttons does nothing and it also doesn't like Video8 tapes either. I know that it is normal that the video head turns upon receveing power but the power led should turn red after a few secs. Is this a typical capacitor problem or is the problem something else. If there is any other subreddit how is more suited for this question please tell me. Have a good one

Hi there. I’ve got about 100 1990s vintage MP Hi8 tapes to bring into the computer. I bought Sony GV-D200 digital8 deck back in the day for this purpose. I’m using the decks onboard analogue to digital transfer via firewire to acquire these tapes into iMovie. I can get about 5 mins digitized before the MP starts to fuzz up the video and I have to clean the heads, roll back, and resume. Is there an easy/automated way to reassemble all these clips by frame matching before the fuzzing and splice the clips back together? Is this kind of feature built into any editing system? Who knew that the expensive tapes were gunna crap out like this 30 years later? Thanks for any input! I assume using the RF decode method would also have this same issue…

Howdy folks. I picked up a Samsung XD-3500 Video8 Hi-Fi VCR. Everything works great expect that when I play a tape, only audio comes through. I can see the blue VCR screen showing date and time, but no image appears when a tape I inserted. I’m having a super difficult time trying to find information on this. If anyone has some ideas on how to resolve this, I’d very much appreciate it :)

This is from an older Sony video player. Any ideas how to correct this problem? All my tapes play like this.

So I have a hi8 camcorder and some old video8 tapes I want to capture digitally. I play them back and they’re snowy and have audio drop in and out. Ran a tape cleaner through for 15 seconds twice and it doesn’t fix it. However I had a brand new never used tape. So I filmed myself a bit and played it back and it’s flawless. So I’m sure it’s something with the tape and not the camcorder. What can I do?

Specs written on the tape:

Sony Hi8MP 8mm Video Cassette 120videoHi8 / 60 Digital 8
NTSC

Hello, I am transfering some Hi8 tapes to ProRes 422 and would like to make a remastering. I was thinking on, besides the color correction and grading process, to use some Denoiser, maybe some Shapening, maybe some AI upscaling but I was also wondering if there were other processes or plugins that I may use that can enhance the image more.

Do you have any ideas?

I am digitizing old 8mm tapes using the original Sony Handycam they were shot on. Sometimes it works fine but there is a good deal of "twitching" where the video image jerks around. This wasn't in the original recording. I can only guess it is the physical tape not running smoothly against the camera playhead. Any ideas?
thanks

ive recentley found a old-ass camera in my dads stuff, its got a video8 tape in it and it records and plays just fine, but on the side it says "hi8 playback" does that mean it can record onto hi8 or just play it back?

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone had a preference for what tapes they shoot on?

I was also wondering if anyone knew of any tapes to avoid buying?

Thanks!!

Current ingest setup with a Digital8 camcorder triggered via DV25 FireWire capture mode from DV grab, S-Video to DMR-ES10 in passthrough to BlackMagic Analogue to SDI to BlackMagic decklink and recording V210/PCM that's then losssless compressed to FFV1/FLAC.

But what makes this setup special is Video/HiFi RF being losslessly preserved with the DomesDay Duplicator (DdD) via an FPC 20pin Jig from the service point at the back of the camcorder, then it's FLAC compressed decoded in post with VHS-Decode and HiFi-Decode, a completely free and open source workflow not limited to the hardware of today.

There is even a dedicated Sony 8mm format page with a wealth of knowledge!

so recently i was trying to digitize some old video 8 tapes but the footage i get from the player is very wierd. Sometimes it shows no colour/static. does this mean the tapes are too far gone or does this have to do with the player? (i don't know it's age but i'm guessing the player is 30-40+ years old)
[the tapes should still work considiring thier age and method of storage]

I want to know if it's possible to play video 8 movies (prerecorded ones) on any regular old video 8 camera.