Old Hitachi video format from early 90's problem

[AlongTheWay]

I am currently in the process of downloading some video from an old Hitachi video camera circa 1992. I am also downloading some other video from a Sony video camera circa 2000. I have windows 8.1 and am using Video studio pro X6. Both cameras use super 8mm cassettes. But I cannot play a recorded cassette on the opposite video camera. I download via a USB video capture device from the cameras two audio cables and one video cable that attach to the cameras. I have found that the Sony works fine to download through to Videostudio but the Hitachi video is all broken up on screen when capturing. In the Hitachi camera screen it looks fine but by the time it gets to the computer it is all glitchy. I have caught some info in all my reading about some changes to video formats in the 90's but I am not sure if this is true. Does anybody know what I am up against here. I hope there is some way around this. I also tried to capture through the Virtual dub software but does even worse as it will not capture the hitachi format at all. Thanks
Steve

[Terfyn]

Have you tried recording the Super 8 onto a DVD and then downloading into VS. DVD recorders are relatively cheap these days and will do the A to D conversion for you. USB converters are a bit "hit and miss" in their operation.

[Ken Berry]

Does the Sony have a firewire or mini-Firewire port? And more importantly, does your computer have a firewire port? I ask because my old analogue 8mm tapes fit into a Sony Digital 8 I bought especially to transfer them to digital format for editing. And my Sony also takes analogue Super 8 tapes. But the best quality is only obtained if you use Firewire for the transfer and capture/save/edit in DV/AVI format, then after editing, convert it to DVD-compatible mpeg-2...

[AlongTheWay]

Thank you Ken and Terfyn for your reply.
I thought that it may be a bit of a stretch to get this going. It is not so much the Sony download I was worried about as it does seem to capture ok with the capture USB device but the Hitachi format is weird. I could possibly get a cassette player but I am concerned it won't play the Hitachi format because it doesn't play in the Sony camera. You would think the 8 mm cassette would play either way but I am suspecting it is an early format of sorts and I would need a Hitachi player to play its own format. I was just wondering if any one out there has worked with this. Thank you
Steve

[asik1]

It will be much better if you will write us the correct model of your Hitachi and the Sony as labeled on them.

[skier-hughes]

I have never come across a different format of 8mm, other than 8mm and Hi8. It could be that the tapes were recorded in long play. Long play tapes of any kind rarely work well in other players.
What is the make of your usb device?
Have you tried using the software that came with it to capture. You could then import the video file to VS for editing.

As well as the models of camcorders, let us have the model of usb device and software supplied.