Sony RDR-VX500 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR
I am still undecided
I bought this DVD Player/Recorder thinking I would be able to burn DVDs or have the option of creating a VHS of over 100 Hi 8 tapes (non digital).  I connected my hi 8 camcorder and used the line 2 jacks on the front of the Sony DVD RDR-VX500 machine.  I wanted to do partial recording of scenes on about 3 different hi 8 tapes and burn then on a DVD RW+ or a DVD RW- (I tried both). Then I wanted to take a few scenes from a few other VHS tape and burn them to the same DVD to have all the scenes I wanted from my HI 8 tapes plus those on a few WHS tapes on the same DVD But I don't seem to be able to do so.  I then was going to load the DVD on my SONY laptop and then do some Digital Editing using Photoshop Premier editing.      I may be screwing up in the finalizing process or even the recording process itself but I seem to be able to get parts of the Hi 8 tapes to transfer to the DVD , but not all, and I can't seem to get BOTH Hi 8 tapes and VHS to transfer to the SAME DVD      [...]