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[Charlie M]

Please excuse my inexperience. The job assignment here is the VHS tape
library. The company wants them (archived -backed up to Hi8). With
the equipment I noticed upon inspection that the analog Sony cameras
had only outputs -s-video and audio. Thus I couldn't run from the
VCR a recording session. I tried another camera (digital 8) and the 60
minute VHS ended up 30 minutes.

I have the Canopus ADVC 100. What I ended up doing was capturing (Adobe
Pro) the analog VHS (VCR) material to the computer. I know this is
dumb. However I've got a backup. I could backup the 60 minute
training videos to DVD but I think you need a menu. I don't know.
That's an idea.

However they have this Hi 8 tape duplicator. A Sony EVO 9720. It's
currently set up where one can insert the master and insert a blank for
duplication.

I'm thinking its possible to record from the EVO machine. What I did
was run (without a manual its all trail and error) from the VCR
audio/video out into the ADVC 100. From the ADVC I ran audio/s-video
out to into audio/s-video in at the EVO 9720. I think I'm close in a
very clumsy way to getting it to record. I pressed the record on the
EVO. The red recording light on the right side of the EVO engaged.

I took the experimental Hi8 tape, played it on the Sony camcorder. The
image, perfect, but somehow the audio wasn't picked up. A long note,
yes, but, I'm just struggling to sort this out. If I can get
everything to perform as expected I could create VHS to Hi8 backups
using the EVO. That appears to be the best option.

Thanks for any suggestions on this scenario.

[Mike Berger]

The simple approach is best -- connect the VHS player to the
inputs of the Hi-8 machine. If your one-hour program only went
for 30 minutes, you have a more fundamental problem to solve.
That's not an artifact of how you interconnected the VCR's.

Charlie M wrote:
[quote]
Please excuse my inexperience. The job assignment here is the VHS tape
library. The company wants them (archived -backed up to Hi8). With
the equipment I noticed upon inspection that the analog Sony cameras
had only outputs -s-video and audio. Thus I couldn't run from the
VCR a recording session. I tried another camera (digital 8) and the 60
minute VHS ended up 30 minutes.[/quote]