VHS to DVD.

i have a mountain of VHS tapes.
what would be required to transfer those to DVD with my computer?

 

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I've looked into this. Two routes: PC or video hardware.

PC: You need a video capture card and DVD mastering software.

Hardware: just buy a DVD recorder (and possibly something to remove the macrovision

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) and plug your VCR into it.

Here's a link to a list of mastering software. I think there's quite a bit to making DVDs actually - things like getting the menus sorted. It's not straight forward (at least not for me) but I suspect there are 'easy' packages out there which handle the operation with big Fischer Price buttons.

 

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You need to buy these:
* VHS player
* DVD recorder ( DVD Xpress DX2 ) (costs 100$)
* and a computer

1) connect the output of the VHS recorder to the input of a set-top DVD recorder.
2) connect the DVD recorder via USb to computer. ( make sure all the drivers on the cd that came with the dvd recorder are installed.) ( make sure all the software is installed too)
3) install the VideoStudio 9 SE DVD editing software...or anything that will work...but I recommend this one
4) make sure you have connected the composite video and audio outputs of VHS recorder to the appropriate inputs on the DVD Xpress device

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How to capture the VHS to computer.

1) set the videotape to a point just before the video began
2) Then, with the software displaying the capture screen (which shows a preview of the video), hit Play on the VCR and click on the Capture Video button.
3) When the video finished playing, stop the capture.

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Editing it and sorting it out.

1) Once all the video is captured, edit it using VideoStudio's Edit screen...or any other software.

2) Create the disc. Disable the menu creation feature and create chapters. Using the Add/Edit Chapter option, create a new chapter for every one of the clips that you have captured.

3) Finally, write the whole project out to a DVD-R using your PC's rewritable DVD drive.

 

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Slightly related question: have any of you guys found a solution for dealing with macrovision?

 

You can filter it out. Boxes with scartin-scartout exist which do this.

 

actually what I do is I use a screen capturing video software to copy everything that is shown on screen. And that is high quality...of course it takes like 4 hours...but guess what any sort of protected DVD I can copy because I do it from what is shown on the screen!

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silly geese those programmers.

 

That's the brute force technique - certainly a good one. The drawback is that you are taking a photocopy of a photocopy - the raw data captured is recompressed and as such there will be a small amount of quality loss.

Obviously all moot when Leopold is starting from analogue anyway.

I have found my project for this holiday! I am going to built a device that gets rid of Macrovision from a PAL signal.

 

good luck avoiding lawsuits.

 

nonsense! my chip merely protects circuits from any unnatural surges that might occur. Nothing to do with video data or vertical sync pulses what-so-ever.

 

Unless they are things you've recorded like holidays etc
I really wouldn't bother with copying VHS to DVD. The quality isn't great, especially with modern HD or widescreen televisions that can handle more data.

Otherwise go with one of the methods mentioned by the others. There are even companies that will do conversions of your own personal media (not Copyrighted films)

 

I have a video I'd like copied to DVD. It's the Kung Fu movie, they've not released it on DVD but the entire series is available! It depresses me so...

 

what like Kung Fu Hustle?

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No it's this http://www.amazon.com/Kung-Fu-David...7560602?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1175896255&sr=8-1 I don't have a copy right now but if I buy one again I'd wanna copy it to DVD so I don't have to worry about no VHS crap. Can ya tell me how to make it without screwin it up with macro?

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kung-Fu-David-Carradine/dp/B000BW7I2A

dvd version, buy it from UK, shiP it internationally

 

That is so cool! I can't believe it! I'm gonna have my friend order me all the UK versions cuz the 2nd season ain't in widescreen for US even though in UK it is, I was pissed bout that one! This'll be so good, I can order series + movie from UK, I luV u!

 

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