![]() These units are still available on Amazon and eBay. In discussing this issue with my other video friends we have found nothing as good as the Grass Valley ADVC-300. Do you know if they have replaced it with a newer model? It is strange that ADVC-300 is not in their current product line on their website. Or you can get a USB based DAC like the EyeTV Hybrid from ElGato. You can get a Firewire based DAC, like the ones from Grass Valley. If your camcorder will not do the conversion, you need some special equipment called a Digital Analog Converter. In this case, you can connect via Firewire as I mentioned above. They can convert an analog tape to a digital signal. Some camcorders have "passthrough" capability. ![]() ![]() If you have Analog 8mm or Hi8, you need to convert to digital. Plug your camera into wall power (not batteries only) and attach via firewire. If your Mac has Firewire 800, get a 4 pin to 9 pin Firewire cable. If your Mac has Firewire 400 get a 4 pin to 6 pin Firewire cable. If you have Digital 8, you can import directly into iMovie. If you are not sure which you have, post the model number of your Sony. The answer is totally different.)įor 8MM video tape, there is 8MM and Hi8 which are analog formats, and there is Digital 8, which is a digital format. Since you said Sony, I assume you mean 8mm videtape, not 8mm film.
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