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Sai
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:07 am Post subject:
VHS to DVD: please advise |
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Comrades,
What I have:
- Bunch of VHS home videos
- A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs.
- A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to
a PC directly through firewire.
- A fairly new PC with DVD burner and firewire and authoring software.
Good stuff. Have created lot of DVDs from my DV tapes.
What I don't have:
S-Video output on my VCR
What is the best way to get the VHS content on to DV or PC so I can
burn DVDs?
Option 1: Buy a VCR with S-Video output. Is there such a thing? I
thought only DVD players and S-VHS VCRs have S-Video output. Or is
there a DVD-VCR combo that has S-Video for BOTH DVD and VCR sides?
Option 2: RCA DT5CS appears to be a little thingamazig that can convert
composite signal to S-Video. This is cheap. But will it work? One of my
friends thinks Option 1 is better because I get a S-Video output. But I
contend that the tape is already VHS so I won't gain anything by having
S-Video output.
Option 3: Video capture card. I don't want to overload my PC with more
stuff anymore - it already has so many things on it. Besides if Option
1 works I have something I can use for more purposes.
Option 4: Buy a DV camcorder with analog inputs. $$$$
What's your expert advice?
Many many thanks in advance.
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Gogarty
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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In article <1130281637.180356.188840@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
SaiPrasad01@gmail.com says...
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I am just using a standard old VCR with VHS analog composite output. I |
have an AverMedia capture card, which is based on a Philips chip and a
separate sound card. My understanding is that VHS quality is such that it
isn't worth while to upgrade to S-videdo,but I could be wrong. I capture
to Virtual Dub at 720 x 480 resolution and get very good quaility capture
files with no dropped frames. Audio sync is a problem, though. But I am
working on it. I then author the files in Nero. Awfully time consuming.
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Comrades,
What I have:
- Bunch of VHS home videos
- A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs.
- A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to
a PC directly through firewire.
- A fairly new PC with DVD burner and firewire and authoring software.
Good stuff. Have created lot of DVDs from my DV tapes.
What I don't have:
S-Video output on my VCR
What is the best way to get the VHS content on to DV or PC so I can
burn DVDs?
Option 1: Buy a VCR with S-Video output. Is there such a thing? I
thought only DVD players and S-VHS VCRs have S-Video output. Or is
there a DVD-VCR combo that has S-Video for BOTH DVD and VCR sides?
Option 2: RCA DT5CS appears to be a little thingamazig that can convert
composite signal to S-Video. This is cheap. But will it work? One of my
friends thinks Option 1 is better because I get a S-Video output. But I
contend that the tape is already VHS so I won't gain anything by having
S-Video output.
Option 3: Video capture card. I don't want to overload my PC with more
stuff anymore - it already has so many things on it. Besides if Option
1 works I have something I can use for more purposes.
Option 4: Buy a DV camcorder with analog inputs. $$$$
What's your expert advice?
Many many thanks in advance.
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Dave Martindale
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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"Sai" <SaiPrasad01@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | Comrades,
What I have:
- A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs.
- A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to
a PC directly through firewire.
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Are you sure the camcorder does not have a plain composite video input
as well as the S-video input? Nearly identical hardware is needed for
decoding these two, and composite video is more universal, so it seems
odd that your camcorder would have Svideo but not composite input.
Dave |
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Daver
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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Buy a dvd recorder (ideally with hard drive) and at the end of it all you
have something you can put to regular use. It's also is a lot quicker if you
are not planning on any fancy editting.
"Sai" <SaiPrasad01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1130281637.180356.188840@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Comrades,
What I have:
- Bunch of VHS home videos
- A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs.
- A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to
a PC directly through firewire.
- A fairly new PC with DVD burner and firewire and authoring software.
Good stuff. Have created lot of DVDs from my DV tapes.
What I don't have:
S-Video output on my VCR
What is the best way to get the VHS content on to DV or PC so I can
burn DVDs?
Option 1: Buy a VCR with S-Video output. Is there such a thing? I
thought only DVD players and S-VHS VCRs have S-Video output. Or is
there a DVD-VCR combo that has S-Video for BOTH DVD and VCR sides?
Option 2: RCA DT5CS appears to be a little thingamazig that can convert
composite signal to S-Video. This is cheap. But will it work? One of my
friends thinks Option 1 is better because I get a S-Video output. But I
contend that the tape is already VHS so I won't gain anything by having
S-Video output.
Option 3: Video capture card. I don't want to overload my PC with more
stuff anymore - it already has so many things on it. Besides if Option
1 works I have something I can use for more purposes.
Option 4: Buy a DV camcorder with analog inputs. $$$$
What's your expert advice?
Many many thanks in advance.
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Guest
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Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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I am also considering the option you suggest. It works if you don't
plan on doing any editing. My question is, If I made it into DVD, can I
still used my PC to edit those video in the future? If so, is the
editing going to cause me quality of the video? (VHS to DVD to PC to
DVD)
Daver wrote:
| Quote: | Buy a dvd recorder (ideally with hard drive) and at the end of it all you
have something you can put to regular use. It's also is a lot quicker if you
are not planning on any fancy editting. |
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Guest
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Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:42 am Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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Sai wrote:
| Quote: | Comrades,
What I have:
- Bunch of VHS home videos
- A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs.
- A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to
a PC directly through firewire.
- A fairly new PC with DVD burner and firewire and authoring software.
Good stuff. Have created lot of DVDs from my DV tapes.
What I don't have:
S-Video output on my VCR
What is the best way to get the VHS content on to DV or PC so I can
burn DVDs?
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You sure your camera doesn't have composite video input? I would think
that would be the lowest common denominator?
What's your DV camcorder model number?
I have been using my Canon ZR-85 (not a very expensive mini-DV
camcorder) for months to do exactly what you're asking about : connect
VCR composite video output to camcorder analog video input, set
camcorder to AVin=>DVout passthrough, connect camcorder DV output to
computer Firewire, start up the capture software, start up the VCR
playback, and away you go! Been working my way through 3 or 4 years
worth of VHS-C tapes from my previous camcorder, putting them on DVD.
Hope this helps,
Jerry |
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Rôgêr
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Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:42 am Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD: please advise |
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pakmcham@earthlink.net wrote:
| Quote: | I am also considering the option you suggest. It works if you don't
plan on doing any editing. My question is, If I made it into DVD, can I
still used my PC to edit those video in the future? If so, is the
editing going to cause me quality of the video? (VHS to DVD to PC to
DVD)
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There'll be some recompression loss, but generational loss with this
type of technology is not anywhere near as bad as say copying a VHS to
VHS to VHS. If you don't have a very critical eye, you may not even be
able to tell the difference. You can use something like Womble MPEG
Video Wizard and edit the the .vob files directly from the DVD and
output to MPEG2 files on the hard drive. Then author them back to DVD. |
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