
Man, those prices are steep!
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question for ya, i have some video tapes that i'd like to transfer to dvd (non-hip related unfortunately), what do i need to do that? what is the best capture card to get, for a relatively inexpensive amount?TLB wrote:I got my sealed VHS copy on Ebay for $1.75 a few years back.
Just to save the VHS copy and alot of rewinding/fast-forwarding, I transferred it to DVD a couple months ago. It's burned at the highest quality (8 mbps), turning a standard 2-hr blank into a 1-hr blank. In order to get it within the 1-hr/4.7 GB maximum, I didn't include any menus and I had to cut the end credits where Neuf tells a story, but otherwise it's all there.
I've had success doing VHS -> DVD transfers, using my digital video camera. There is a "pass-through" option on the camera, that changes the analogue signal from the VCR to a digital signal for the computer on the fly. All I needed to buy was a firewire to connect the dv camera to the computer.rivum wrote:question for ya, i have some video tapes that i'd like to transfer to dvd (non-hip related unfortunately), what do i need to do that? what is the best capture card to get, for a relatively inexpensive amount?TLB wrote:I got my sealed VHS copy on Ebay for $1.75 a few years back.
Just to save the VHS copy and alot of rewinding/fast-forwarding, I transferred it to DVD a couple months ago. It's burned at the highest quality (8 mbps), turning a standard 2-hr blank into a 1-hr blank. In order to get it within the 1-hr/4.7 GB maximum, I didn't include any menus and I had to cut the end credits where Neuf tells a story, but otherwise it's all there.
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that sounds great, but i don't have a dv cam!srb wrote: I've had success doing VHS -> DVD transfers, using my digital video camera. There is a "pass-through" option on the camera, that changes the analogue signal from the VCR to a digital signal for the computer on the fly. All I needed to buy was a firewire to connect the dv camera to the computer.