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Hi all,
I’m trying to digitise my wife’s late father’s Hi8 tapes at as high quality as is possible from my home and I’ve run into a few issues I could use help with:
Format uncertainty: The camera was likely purchased in the US (so NTSC), I belive he used a CCD TR600, but he also lived in New Zealand (PAL is possible).
Gear available:
Mac Studio 2025 (with FireWire + dongles)
Elgato USB capture device
Sony DCR-TRV120E (PAL, with FireWire)
Sony CCD-TR700 (NTSC)
Problems:
About half the tapes will play in both cameras, the other half won’t play in either.
I successfully captured one tape using FireWire + the TRV120E into QuickTime. The quality looks good, but:
The playback is choppier on the Mac than on the camera’s built-in screen.
The audio slowly drifts out of sync until it’s ~5–10 seconds off by the end of a 2-hour tape.
Questions:
Is there a way to fix the choppy playback and audio sync drift?
Is DaVinci Resolve Studio suitable for correcting frame rate issues, de-interlacing, and audio sync, or should I be using something else?
Any tips for figuring out why some tapes don’t play in either deck?
Thanks in advance — I really want to get these tapes digitised properly for my wife.
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