How to Convert Hi8 Tapes to DVD?

What is Hi8 video? Why to burn Hi8 to DVD? How to convert Hi8 to DVD? Let's find them out here.

Video Hi8 (short for High-Band Video8) is a popular format for videotape camcorders since the year of 1985. In that time, Sony of Japan introduced their first Handycam, which was much smaller than the competition's VHS and Betamax video cameras and had been very popular in the market. But now many people find themselves with stacks of Hi8 tapes they can't easily play and view and want to burn the Hi8 videos to DVD for playback on DVD player or watching on TV. This tutorial is about how to convert Hi8 to DVD.

Transfer Hi8 video cassettes to computer

This step is transfer video from Hi8 tape to computer (analog to digital) so you can edit videos before burning it to DVD.

Connecting the camcorder and computer with firewire cable. You will probably need a firewire card if you do not have a firewire facility on your PC. Use Window Movie Maker as a video capture application to convert Hi8 tapes to AVI files and do following steps:

• 1. In the Movie Tasks pane, select Capture Video.
• 2. Click Capture from Video Device.
• 3. On the Video Capture Device page, select Available Devices and click your DV camera.
• 4. Follow the prompts to name and save your captured video file.

Now, you can save Hi8 video to your computer. The video format should be .avi or .wmv. The next step is to burn those digital Hi8 video files to DVD.

How to convert Hi8 video to DVD

We are going to use Daniusoft DVD Creator to convert popular video format (.avi, .wmv, .mp4 etc.) to DVD. I will show you how to burn a DVD from Hi8 step-by-step.

Pre-requirement: blank DVD disk (DVD +R, DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW), rewritable DVD-ROM, Daniusoft DVD Creator.

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Import Hi8 videos

The first step is to import the video file that needs to be burned onto a DVD. Select/drag the Hi8 file into the main interface of Hi8 to DVD Creator. You could check the video size on the measure bar on the bottom. Make sure it doesn't exceed the total DVD capacity.

Choose a DVD menu

Click "Menu Template" to select a DVD menu. You can also customize your DVD menu such as add text, background music and background image etc.

Convert Hi8 to DVD

Now you can convert Hi8 to DVD disk. Go to set TV Standard (PAL/NTSC) on "Setting" option and output Aspect Ratio (4:3/16:9) on "DVD setting bar". Click "Burn" and then select your DVD drive (if you have more than one DVD drive on PC) and Click "Start" to burn your project.

Now you have copied Hi8 camcorder tapes to DVD with DVD Creator.

If you are a Mac user and want to convert Hi8 to DVD on Mac, you an turn to DVD Creator for Mac.

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