Hi all I wonder if you guys know any decent online shops in the UK that sells Hi8 tapes. I don’t want digital because the camcorder can’t support it. I would upgrade but I simply don’t have the money! I tried searching but the sites didn't look very promising.

I am also thinking of buy a TV Tuner Capture Card. I need to do a title sequence video so I need to capture the video of this camcorder in some way! I assume this is the best method?

However my maximum budget is £50 so what TV Tuner Capture Card you think is best for this? I know there not good quality but I heard output looks a lot better on the TV or something; this will be burnt to DVD so I hope it’s good enough for the whole class to watch (there **** TV’s anyway at college).

I’m sort of looking at this capture card, well I was going to get a PCI one (would that be better?) but I found this. Looks very good.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=62010

I don’t need the sound I just need to import the video into Adobe Premier Pro 7 or Adobe After Effects 6.

Btw the video has to be 30sec to 2 minutes long, how much HD space will that take?

I found a site and bought a pack of 3 for £12.95 inc VAT . They were Sony Hi8 / Digital8 3-Pack so they should be ok.

I also bought a Leadtek WinFast DV2000 Personal Digital Video Recorder package cause I figured a PCI card would have much better processing power then that USB thing.

If I update the drivers it should be good, comes with all the cables I need! I read a review and the guy took some screenshots, it looked good enough quality. It probably wont be the best, but hey it's better than no course work done!

Any of you know how much hard drive space it will take, capturing straight from video? I think the TV Tuner card can capture into formats like MPEG, what would be the best format for dvd authoring?

Also do you have any ideas for a title sequence . Do you know any easier apps than After Effects? Any tips I should know like what fonts to use and so on.