Trying VHS to DVD

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Rod Bishop

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I have a DVD player and a DVD writer on my PC, and I can copy a DVD fine.
I also have a VHS/DVD player and a DVD Recorder and I can copy my family's Tapes to DVD.
Now I'm trying to learn to EDIT video on my PC with a Ulead and a Pinnacle Editing program. The Pinnacle works great at captureing the VHS tape by way of a video input and rendering the frames, and it sends the finished and saved editing to the PC DVD burner and burns the DVD.

When I try to play the DVD I get an ERROR or Bad Disc, and I have tried the DVD in several players but all say bad DVD.

Is there a trick that I'm missing? Any help.................??
 
Bad media or the wrong format when capturing video from an analog source will cause that. The mpeg II type file generally works out the best for seeing vhs converted to dvd when having a pc go between. The program used for burning the video capture to disk can also make a difference in seeing them playable and not just another data disk.

For editing the length once captured that's usually done by first creating a project with the burning software and using that program's own trimmer so that you can fit that onto a 4.2gb disk. That's also where you select the background from a list the program has or some jpeg, bmp, or other image file you have stored on the hard drive.
 
I strictly use dvd-rs not the rws here. In fact rws can't be read on the dvd burner here for some reason. Figure that one out a Sony brand burner won't read Sony brand blank rws? Yet their dvd-rs work like a charm for video projects as well as making data dvd backups.

Now that's simply buying a quick 50ct. container in a retail store. For VCDs or Video cd projects bascially a cd-r instead of a dvd-r type disk I'll grab a 100ct. container at a wholesale club.

For those TDKs always seem to work out well. But also expect if you burn enough disks with any brand long enough you are still going to end up with a frisbies to toss around whether a bad disk or simply a bad burn.

Memorex and now Maxell are two brands I avoid. For an old vhs camcorder I always went to a communications store that carried plenty of blank tape in those days of different lengths. 30, 60, 90, 120, 160, and some 200 minutes.

Now take a ton of vhs tapes and covert them to dvd form! You would be pulling your hair out. :eek: Unfortunately the rewritable disks never seem to work for video projects to start with. Those are for things like quick data transfer between machines or for a quick temp storage solution.
 
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