converting vhs to dvd
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Apokarteron
banned
or use a TV Card
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
its a card that allows you to run video signals into your computer so you can record it, or something like that.
As stated over the course of this thread, the simplest way to accomplish what you want is probably:
1. Buy a capture card (you can get basic ones <50, slightly more robust packages like say, the 9600 AIW for <100)
2. Get the appropriate cabling (generally, RCA or SVIDEO cables)
3. Get some software of some sort (if you get the 9600 AIW then it will come with some software ... i dont personally reccomend that software but its software nonetheless). Otherwise, a fiarly robust and simple (and FREE) application u can use to do video capture is VirtualDub
4. Capture the video to the drive either in RAW or encoded format (i would reccmend MPEG4 for now ... its a bit more work later but you're getting the most effective use of your space and at a fairly decent speed, capturing with MPEG1/2 can be gittery)
5. Regardless of what format you used to record in step4, use something like TMGPEnc (free version!) to encode to a DVD
6. Now that you have the MPG/MPA+MPV files you can author them using something like DVDLab (free trial)
7. When thats done, use something like Nero to burn it as a DVDVideo and yer done
1. Buy a capture card (you can get basic ones <50, slightly more robust packages like say, the 9600 AIW for <100)
2. Get the appropriate cabling (generally, RCA or SVIDEO cables)
3. Get some software of some sort (if you get the 9600 AIW then it will come with some software ... i dont personally reccomend that software but its software nonetheless). Otherwise, a fiarly robust and simple (and FREE) application u can use to do video capture is VirtualDub
4. Capture the video to the drive either in RAW or encoded format (i would reccmend MPEG4 for now ... its a bit more work later but you're getting the most effective use of your space and at a fairly decent speed, capturing with MPEG1/2 can be gittery)
5. Regardless of what format you used to record in step4, use something like TMGPEnc (free version!) to encode to a DVD
6. Now that you have the MPG/MPA+MPV files you can author them using something like DVDLab (free trial)
7. When thats done, use something like Nero to burn it as a DVDVideo and yer done
Grasshopper
New Member
Praetor said:As stated over the course of this thread, the simplest way to accomplish what you want is probably:
1. Buy a capture card (you can get basic ones <50, slightly more robust packages like say, the 9600 AIW for <100)
2. Get the appropriate cabling (generally, RCA or SVIDEO cables)
3. Get some software of some sort (if you get the 9600 AIW then it will come with some software ... i dont personally reccomend that software but its software nonetheless). Otherwise, a fiarly robust and simple (and FREE) application u can use to do video capture is VirtualDub
4. Capture the video to the drive either in RAW or encoded format (i would reccmend MPEG4 for now ... its a bit more work later but you're getting the most effective use of your space and at a fairly decent speed, capturing with MPEG1/2 can be gittery)
5. Regardless of what format you used to record in step4, use something like TMGPEnc (free version!) to encode to a DVD
6. Now that you have the MPG/MPA+MPV files you can author them using something like DVDLab (free trial)
7. When thats done, use something like Nero to burn it as a DVDVideo and yer done
I too would like to convert my VHS tapes to DVD. I know nothing about the processes, hardware, and software required to do this task. However I saw this device
http://www.videoguys.com/pyroAVlink.html#api555
and wanted to get some opinions on it. Will it include everything that a rookie needs to convert VHS to DVD? And if not, what else would I need? Thanks in advance for any and all info.
Geoff
VIP Member
thats really expensive, i would recomend something like this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...t&productCategoryId=cat01054&id=1095941349358
Just hook your VCR or camcorder up to it, and record to your PC.
Just hook your VCR or camcorder up to it, and record to your PC.
Grasshopper
New Member
geoff5093 said:
Thanks for the reply and recommendation. And that device will have everything I need, correct?
