Thanks for all the responses.
I was hoping not to have to do it that way, but that website is quite a bit better than the one I was looking at.
http://www.doceo.com/new%20articles/filmtoDV.html
I have done about 54 of the Beta tapes already, talk about a pain in the ass. Its a good think I have 1.4 Tb of space on my computer - unfortunately about 1/3 of it is taken up with porn
He is getting pretty close to the goverment retirement age and he has alot of interests - creating a plain language historical conversion of the KJB, all this video stuff, converting all the photographs he has to digital, family geneology.
I went through an 8mm one yesterday that was of the one trip to the Columbia Ice Fields when I was 2-3 could kind of walk - its unfortunate I slept through the whole thing, damn comfortable seats.
Thanks
MYK