Recommended setup for amateur video art project?

[beller]

I think wawrzon nailed the first problem, getting Super8 into a digital format.  This is probably best left for a professional.  I'm not sure where you are but there is probably someone who can turn your Super8 into a DVD.  You could then digitize stills, or use the Amiga to process the video and record the results to another video device.  

It's hard enough to do direct video editing on a modern Mac with tons of memory.  You can use the Amiga to process your video but trying to edit on an Amiga without a Toaster setup could be painful.  Thinking about it, doesn't the Toaster rely on a second video device to save the effects (you don't save on the Amiga)?  I've not actually used or owned a Toaster.

I've some very short animations I did with AmigaLive and my A2000 in '87.  The results are very short but interesting.  I quickly moved to a video editing system for an editing solution.  Nothing was available at that point.  

Good luck...I think you could do some interesting video effects for your project even if you have to go to another means to do final edit.

[beller]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...but computers in the late '80s and early '90s weren't designed to do digital video with motion.  You can grab still images or very short bursts of video, or color video/add titles  and then dump the results to another video deck, but you can't digitize and store directly to the Amiga.

This is a job better left to a Mac with iMovie I'm sorry to say....

[beller]

I just looked up the VLab Motion at the big book of hardware.  It requires an '030 but it does digitize full motion at 30 fps.  

Not sure when this was released, I'd not seen one before.  I stand corrected!

The Amiga Big Book of hardware contains the following list of Amiga framegrabbers and digitizers.  The only one I saw that wasn't a framegrabber was the VLab Motion.

If you like Framegrabbers, I'm partial to the DCTV myself, but then I worked on that project!

Bob