I need to do a minute long video with my Digital 8 camcorder. I plan to shoot the whole thing (which has no dialogue) and edit it all on a home computer, adding music and taking out all the camera sound. However, the final product needs to be on a VHS tape. This is a problem because if I take the whole thing and put it back onto a Digital 8 tape, the sound quality of the music will most likely suffer. If I had some way to hook the computer up to the VHS, I could put the video and sound directly onto the VHS tape. However, I don't have any way of doing that. So, I have about four questions:
1) If I put the video on the computer directly onto a VHS tape, would the sound be okay?
2) How would I go about getting the computer hooked up to the VHS and is this even possible?
3) The sound quality of Digital 8 isn't marvelous. But, would the quality increase when moved to a medium with better sound quality, like VHS?
4)And finally, am I just wrong about the whole thing? Is VHS quality better than Digital 8 quality to the degree that I am assuming?
Thanks
I've seen a device where you hook this machine up to your computer, and you stick a Digital8 tape into it and can send the moive you made directly to that. So it's sort of a Digital8 or Mini-DV VCR attched to your PC.
Also you could try to send the movie to a DVD-R disc.
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The sound quality of Digital 8 isn't marvelous.
Actually, I believe it's 48kHz 16-bit digital audio: better than VHS!
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Is VHS quality better than Digital 8 quality to the degree that I am assuming?
Should be the other way around. Your camera may not resolve the full detail that Digital-8 can record, but the format supports 720x480 pixels of video with digital sound: VHS is equivalent to about 360x480 pixels with analogue sound.
One issue, of course, is that music tends to be recorded at 44.1kHz. So you'll need to convert it to 48kHz to add to the video, which can cause a reduction in quality.
Wow... I feel dumb. I was under the impression that VHS sound was significantly better than Digital 8 sound. Thanks for the info.