Old camcorder to pc

karltimber

Hi,

This is pc related - so here goes

I found an old 8mm tape of mine and eventually tracked down a camcorder aka brick, to play it on.
I now want to capture this footage on my pc - with Pinnacle 12.
The camcorder comes with a 2-rca to 2 rca lead (vid & audio) - presumably just to plug it into the crt years ago.
My gc has an s-video and dvi

what connector, cables or other solution do I have to use to connec to my pc or any other solutions ?
thx
K

PaddyTheNth

I think you'll need an external video capture card, something like
http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetvwithacomputer/gr/gr4.htm

karltimber

would something like this do the same thing ?

K

PaddyTheNth

It looks ok...if you want to read an obviously sponsored review read here

There are lots of places selling it though so it looks pretty ok.

Reckon that one must have fallen off the back of a lorry, costs about $30 new.

tonyj_mc

stupid question - do you have or have acces to a DVD recorder.

If so just line the old 8mm camcorder into the dvd recorder (normally the red white and yellow connectors on the front) set the recorder to recorde from ext souce and off you roll, that will get it to dvd and fdrom there lob it in the pc and edit away

Simple as id you have the dvd recorder

karltimber

exo tony - don't have but can get the use of one.

this will a one off so better than buying anything

will let ye know how I get on.

K

Umiq88

@OP

I bought one of those easycap devices off ebay a while ago for a similiar purpose not expecting it to really work or the quaility to be great but its very good i can plug the sky box into the laptop now and watch happily the quaility is bang on and they cost very little.

Ricky91t

Hi i need help.i bought one of these last year and have lost the cd,my pcs been through alot of OS changes since then,is there any chance one of you canemail me the drivers for this device?
If you reply i'll pm you my email

Thanks in advance