<p>Ray,<br> <br>In order to digitize the video from your Son's Hi-8 recorder he will need an adapter that will accept RCA cable connections and essentially convert the analog signal to a digital format. <br> <br>In order to determine which adapter to look at your son needs to know exactly how he wants to host the end product. Some of the cheaper adapters digitize directly to a low grade Mpeg-1 or Mpeg-2 format that I personally find unacceptable. Other adapters allow a multitude of capture formats up to and including lossless formats that create enormous file sizes.
<br> <br>My personal favorite is the DV format that equates to about 13 GB per hour of captured video. The DV format is great for editing and can be easily converted to Mpeg-2 for mastering to DVD.<br> <br>Ray, I do this type of work at home and have all of the necessary hardware to transfer analog video to digital formats including the latest compression algorithms such as
H.264/Mp4/Ipod, Windows Media v9, and standard DVD-ROM.</p>
<p>If you are interested contact me at <a href="mailto:alan.maupin@mchsi.com">alan.maupin@mchsi.com</a></p>
<p>Alan </p>