how do i turn hi-8video into dvd?

Answer 1

Your hi-8 are analogue, just like VCR and SVHS. If your hi-8 has component then buy a capture card with component input. Most of the capture card on the market are Svideo based so you're probably stuck with Svideo digitizer board. I'm using a fairly cheap board from pinnacle. Just convert the hi-8's Svideo in to MPEG 2 and burn it with any DVD authoring tool of your choice.

Your second choice is to buy a regular DVD recorder applicance. These are just like a regular VCR and insert a blank DVD and select the input that is connected to the hi-8 player then hit play on hi-8 and hit record on the DVD recorder.