Recommended setup for amateur video art project?

[orb85750]

OK, well for the short term I have narrowed what I would like to do with the Amiga for a video project.  I am new to Amiga video (and to video in general), so please assume that I am ignorant.  I can use either an A2000 or an A1200.  At this point, both are essentially stock machines, so clearly I'll need to make some changes, but I'd like to keep things fairly economical.

***CORRECTION BELOW: IT'S A HI8 home camera, NOT A SUPER8!***
I have a super8 video camera from which I'd like to digitize video on my Amiga.  I then plan to modify the video in a pretty extreme, artistic way.  This does not need to be done for broadcast/realtime --- and I certainly *do* need nonlinear editing capability.  I know that I'll need some sort of digitizer card and good software, but not sure which ones.  I presume I may also need to do an OS upgrade (I have 1.3 on the A2000 and 3.1 on the A1200), new hard drive (new controller too?), and whatever else.

Do I have some options?  Does anyone have any recommendations for a setup that is not going to take a year for me to find or afford?  The more detailed you could be, the better.   Thanks so much!  -Dave

[orb85750]

EXCUSE ME, I MEANT HI8, not super8.  This is an inexpensive Sony home video camera.  One cannot easily (with the correct digitizer card) convert the analog to digital of similar quality?  Is the editing still going to be hopeless?  No software available to do it?  THANKS.

[orb85750]

What is the point of video digitizer boards such as the Vlab motion 1.3?  I thought those boards were specifically designed to do what I want to do, including hard disk storage?  (I'm confused, I guess!)  

[orb85750]

beller wrote:
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

As WEIRDAMI just pointed out, the Toaster Flyer board can also capture and store.  

So it sounds as if the software is the main problem??  At a minimum level, does anyone know of such software?  Its seems awfully strange to me that there would be a couple of digital video capture & store options for Amiga, but no software to make them useful??!!