Passthrough

Not involving 8mm tapes, Some D8 camcorders are equipped with a timebase corrector and noise reduction, making them a viable choice for digitising other types of analogue tapes, especially for PAL system tapes, which uses the better 4:2:0 colour format. The Sony term for this feature is “Signal Convert” and is selected in the camcorder menu. This means that an external analogue source, such as a VHS or Beta VCR, can be transferred via the camcorder to the PC using Firewire, with the analogue source being plugged into the analogue In ports of the camcorder. It is recommended that noise reduction be switched off and dealt with in post-capture processing. If you do not intend doing any POST work, by all means, set the NR to On.