Video Editing Software for old H8 movies?

[shaun0207]

Hey Guy: (Hope I have the right forum)



I have some old home moves I created with a High 8 camcorder. I cant remember what I did with the camcorder, but I do still have the tapes.

On one of my older windows laptops, I used a Pinnacle Movie Box to bring the software from the RCA camcorder thru the USB port of my computer. Then I use Pinnacle Movie Studio 9 to create movies of the film and dropped them into either .avi or mpeg formatted videos on my computer.

I tired watching one my Macook Air and on my 50" TV and the quality looks horrible now. Is their any software on Mac or 3party software I could use to re-edit the mpeg or avi files and try and clear up some of the grainy video?

Thanks alot for the help

 

[Digital Skunk]

Truthfully your video is going to look like that no matter what. It depends on how your PC imported your footage. If the original file sizes were tiny (which I assume they are coming in through USB) then even blowing them up in a program like MPEG Streamclip won't do you much good.

Making the footage less grainy and/or larger, won't help the situation at all.

 

[shaun0207]

Truthfully your video is going to look like that no matter what. It depends on how your PC imported your footage. If the original file sizes were tiny (which I assume they are coming in through USB) then even blowing them up in a program like MPEG Streamclip won't do you much good.

Making the footage less grainy and/or larger, won't help the situation at all.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I kinda figured that. But I figured I'd at least ask just in case anybody knew of something. Thanks again

 

[bartap]

Sony Hi 8 Tapes?

I used to use a Sony Hi8 camcorder but I upgraded (in 2000) to the Sony Digital 8 system. I did this because the Digital 8 can play the Sony Hi8 tapes. From there, I could use the firewire from the Digital 8 camcorder into the Mac/Imovie. If your tapes are compatible you could pick up a used Digital 8 and reimport the original footage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital8

 

[shaun0207]

I used to use a Sony Hi8 camcorder but I upgraded (in 2000) to the Sony Digital 8 system. I did this because the Digital 8 can play the Sony Hi8 tapes. From there, I could use the firewire from the Digital 8 camcorder into the Mac/Imovie. If your tapes are compatible you could pick up a used Digital 8 and reimport the original footage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital8

That might be an option. Thanks