You sure it’s a video8/hi8 camcorder they are all all analogue and won’t have a digital out. Some Digital8 might have a FireWire output and if it does your lucks as you can capture digitally and would hold onto the cameria as they are going up in value.
One of my pc’s has a RealMagic capture card in costing £300 about 15 years ago and just gets transplanted into different pc’s as I upgrade. The other pc I bought a 2 port FireWire card for £6.99 from amazon. The cheaper card captures better than the older expensive one and is comparable with windows video capture software that’s built in. It’s just a bog standard basic cheap card.
But I’m not using any of those, I’m lucky enough to have a framemeister.
Amazon product
I run the analogue signal (I’ve got video8 so not digital) into this and then it’s gets digitised and I choose if I wanted to output in either 720p or 1080p and capture it digitally through my hdmi recorder to mp4 file on a memeroy stick that I can do what I want with then.
