DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE SOFT COPY OF SONY PICTURE PACKAGE?

[RanchTheHay005]

I have this old Sony Hi8 tape handycam.....ig from 2005......Basically there are a lot of tapes that are not converted to digital and all the photo studios we asked told that they stopped converting tapes to digital long back....Those tapes have a lot of memories which I wish to make it digital....

 

I dont have the CD for sony picture package

 

I would not mind installing windows xp on a pc from using this app but there are a lot of memories in the tapes

 

so if you guys have it by chance can you please share the software?

 

the model of the handycam is DCR-TRV285E

 

I TRIED "SONY PLAY MEMORIES" BUT IT DID NOT RECOGONISE THIS HANDYCAM....

 

 

[Donut417]

30 minutes ago, Sed Linus said:

converted to digital and all the photo studios we asked told that they stopped converting tapes to digital long back....Those tapes have a lot of memories which I wish to make it digital....

When I worked at SamsClub while we did offer a service, it was sub contracted out to YesVideo, we would mail them the tapes and they would send them back finished. You might have to look in to an online service. 

[Avocado Diaboli]

The Internet Archive has a few versions available here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=sony picture package

Maybe one of those will work for you.

[RanchTheHay005]

8 hours ago, Donut417 said:

When I worked at SamsClub while we did offer a service, it was sub contracted out to YesVideo, we would mail them the tapes and they would send them back finished. You might have to look in to an online service. 

is it available everywhere?

 

i live in india

 

6 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

The Internet Archive has a few versions available here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=sony picture package

Maybe one of those will work for you.

oh wow

 

i never know that such websites exist

 

i will try for sure

[RanchTheHay005]

2 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

The Internet Archive has a few versions available here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=sony picture package

Maybe one of those will work for you.

i downloaded picture package 1 and tried to run it in compatibility mode of winxp sp2

 

and this is what i get

 

i tried winxp sp2 and sp3

 

should i try win98 too?

[LogicalDrm]

How does the camera hook to PC? FireWire? Another option would be to use analog video out cables and get cheap capture card that can input analog video. Then you can use any recording software starting from OBS. This same method you could use with VHS tapes if you have suitable player with analog video output.

[Donut417]

5 hours ago, Sed Linus said:

is it available everywhere?

 

i live in india

????????? Im just saying services exist. You need to look online, its possible a company exists in India. 

[RanchTheHay005]

21 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

How does the camera hook to PC? FireWire? Another option would be to use analog video out cables and get cheap capture card that can input analog video. Then you can use any recording software starting from OBS. This same method you could use with VHS tapes if you have suitable player with analog video output.

via a USB cable

 

like it uses a HI8 format which is digital but in the format of a tape....I managed to install it in the VM of windows xp

[RanchTheHay005]

20 hours ago, Donut417 said:

????????? Im just saying services exist. You need to look online, its possible a company exists in India. 

it is not there in india...sed...but i managed to install it on a VM....only final thing to do is connect the camera with the laptop

[RanchTheHay005]

On 11/25/2021 at 9:37 AM, Donut417 said:

When I worked at SamsClub while we did offer a service, it was sub contracted out to YesVideo, we would mail them the tapes and they would send them back finished. You might have to look in to an online service. 

hey i managed to run the app on a VM and it kinda worked....the handycam gets recogonised sometimes (rarely) but when it does...it works great