how to transfer vhs to dvd ?

[mario]

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Hello,

What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?

Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?

Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
make the transfer.

Thanks,

Mario

 

[Guest]

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In article <42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com>,
marmagi@gmail.com says...
>
>
>Hello,
>
>What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>
>Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
>easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>
>Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
>make the transfer.

Lots of packages out there that come bundled with either the capture
board or the DVD burner. Two I use are NEOStudio, wihc comes with the
Avermedia EZDVD PCI capture board. The other is NERO Express wihch comes
with the LITE-ON DVD burner. I find the NEOStudio better for capturing
and the NERO better for authoring. However, if I want to get really high
quality then one goes off into the impenetrable forest of suc things as
Virtual Dub, TMPGEnc and the like. The bundled packages do it all for you
but unless you have a very high quality system, i.e., multi gigahertz
CPU, they drop frames like mad and the result is herky jerky video with
poor sound quality.

To use the AVERMedia suite you need an AGP video card, a separate sound
card and at least 1.3 GHz CPU.

The problem with the bundled packages is they try to do it all at once
which makes it convenient for the user. But your computer is trying to
capture the analog signal audio and video streams from the VHS and at the
same time convert those streams from analog to digital and then encode
the streams and burn them onto the DVD disk. Quite simply, the system
chokes. And it still takes a long time.

My preference is to first capture the audio and video streams as a
lossless compressed AVI. This makes for huge, huge files but they contain
all the information that was in the original VHS video. Then you can
manipulate those AVIO files anyway you want knowing that you are going to
get the best possible quality in the final outcome.

Doesn't matter much for birthday parties and such and I have converted a
lot of those into very acceptable DVDs. But I am also trying to convert
operas taped off the air and maintain the quality of the original tapes.
That is quite something else.

This is a long learning process with a very steep learning curve once you
step off the path of bundled software.

 

[Waldo]

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Buy: ADAPTEC AVC-2210 VIDEO CONVERTER DVD/USB KIT

with it comes the software you'll need to make DVD's.

Waldo




"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>
> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>
> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> make the transfer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario

 

[Guest]

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It really depends on what you actually want. If you simply want your VHS
tapes as they are on DVD with simple menus or none at all a stand-alone DVD
recorder is just right for you. If you are wanting to edit the video
beforehand, then add personalized menus and chapter points the suggestions
of the other forum members are good choices.
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"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>
> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>
> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> make the transfer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario

 

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"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>
> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>
> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> make the transfer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario

You go to a store and you buy a DVD recorder and you hook up your VCR into
it. You'll save an enormous amount of time and of headaches. Use your burner
if you want to make copies after that.

RAT

 

[Guest]

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Hmm.. as for the USB video converter, I was always under the impression that
USB cannot transfer data fast enough to properly capture video.

"Waldo" <drwaldos@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:J6pOd.129972$dP1.465078@newsc.telia.net...
> Buy: ADAPTEC AVC-2210 VIDEO CONVERTER DVD/USB KIT
>
> with it comes the software you'll need to make DVD's.
>
> Waldo
>
>
>
>
> "Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>>
>> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
>> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>>
>> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
>> make the transfer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario
>

 

[Guest]

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Wrong. Most of the new capture devices (outboard) are USB.

Regards,

Marv

Mike Beauchamp wrote:
> Hmm.. as for the USB video converter, I was always under the impression that
> USB cannot transfer data fast enough to properly capture video.
>
> "Waldo" <drwaldos@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:J6pOd.129972$dP1.465078@newsc.telia.net...
>
>>Buy: ADAPTEC AVC-2210 VIDEO CONVERTER DVD/USB KIT
>>
>> with it comes the software you'll need to make DVD's.
>>
>> Waldo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
>>news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>>>
>>>Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
>>>easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>>>
>>>Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
>>>make the transfer.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Mario
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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USB 2.0 can. Pinnacle LE 6.0 PRO comes with a box that captures and
monitors via USB 2.0. USB 1.0, on the other hand, is too slow.

Ciao,
-- Roberto

Mike Beauchamp wrote:
> Hmm.. as for the USB video converter, I was always under the impression that
> USB cannot transfer data fast enough to properly capture video.
>
> "Waldo" <drwaldos@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:J6pOd.129972$dP1.465078@newsc.telia.net...
> > Buy: ADAPTEC AVC-2210 VIDEO CONVERTER DVD/USB KIT
> >
> > with it comes the software you'll need to make DVD's.
> >
> > "Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
> >>
> >> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> >> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
> >>
> >> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> >> make the transfer.

 

[Guest]

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USB 1.1 was iffy at times, USB 2 is plenty fast enough for video data
transfer..in fact its roughly equivalent to firewire.


"Mike Beauchamp" <news@mikebeauchamp.com> wrote in message
news:cuf0ug04uu@enews3.newsguy.com...
> Hmm.. as for the USB video converter, I was always under the impression
that
> USB cannot transfer data fast enough to properly capture video.
>
> "Waldo" <drwaldos@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:J6pOd.129972$dP1.465078@newsc.telia.net...
> > Buy: ADAPTEC AVC-2210 VIDEO CONVERTER DVD/USB KIT
> >
> > with it comes the software you'll need to make DVD's.
> >
> > Waldo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
> >>
> >> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> >> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
> >>
> >> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> >> make the transfer.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mario
> >
>
>

 

[Brian]

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"Rattus the RAT" <rats_and_guns_n_rosesREMOVE-THIS@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>>
>> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
>> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>>
>> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
>> make the transfer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario
>
>You go to a store and you buy a DVD recorder and you hook up your VCR into
>it. You'll save an enormous amount of time and of headaches. Use your burner
>if you want to make copies after that.
>
>RAT
>

He's right!
Using a DVD recorder says time and effect. Less to learn and is
realiable.

Regards Brian

 

[DaveR]

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Easiest, quickest and possibly the cheapest is to buy a settop DVD recorder.
Wont give you fancy menus and probably limited editting but after finishing
you have something to record future stuff direct to DVD.


"Mario" <marmagi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>
> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>
> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
> make the transfer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario

 

[Guest]

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In article <cuf25m$tug$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Daver
<jbrockley@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Easiest, quickest and possibly the cheapest is to buy a settop
>DVD recorder. Wont give you fancy menus and probably limited
>editting but after finishing you have something to record future
>stuff direct to DVD.

I do this but use +RW on the DVD recorder. That way I can set it
up overnight to record 4 hours at a stretch - typically films
from TCM - and then split them into pieces on the set-top, then
take the disk to my computer and record in ISO image mode using
DVDDecrypter.

On TVs shows that need commericals edited out, I take the DVD
to the computer, use DVDDecryptor in filemode [ or sometimes IFO
mode ] and take the results into VideoRedo as it does a good job
of editing mpegs directly and saving them out edited with no
re-encoding.

On some films I will also bring them in and then use VideoReDo
and TDA to give me a standalone film with just the title that will
wait until I want to hit play - but with chapters added but
with chapter thumbnails not showing.

On other things I bring the video into the computer via
a firewire connection to a Canopus.

>news:42dfc0c5.0502090514.401442dc@posting.google.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the easiest way to transfer a VHS to a DVD ?
>>
>> Having a VHS player, a PC with DVD burner, what do I need in order to
>> easily transfer a VHS tape into a DVD ?
>>
>> Please tell me what hardware brand/model and software do I need to
>> make the transfer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario
>
>


--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

 

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What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?

 

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phkmn2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
> scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?

The DVD recorder won't allow you to copy it. Simple as that.

Mike

 

[Brian]

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phkmn2000@yahoo.com wrote:

>What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
>scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?

There was a lot of information on the internet about the effects of
"macrovision" a few years back. Try www.google.com and use
'macrovision information' as key words.
Far as I know macrovision is a signal that's mixed with the video
signal to cause problems with video recorders.

Regards Brian

 

[Guest]

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phkmn2000wrote:
> What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy
> protection scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?

If the DVD recorder is designed to detect Macrovision
(and I suspect most are), then it will refuse to record.

 

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"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
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> phkmn2000wrote:
>> What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
>> scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?
>
> If the DVD recorder is designed to detect Macrovision
> (and I suspect most are), then it will refuse to record.

If I remember correctly (and I often don't!), Macrovision isn't so much a
setting to be detected but, rather, a degradation of part of the video
signal. TVs can cope with it, but VCRs can't; they need this part of the
signal full strength. That's why you can play Macrovision tapes OK on
most TVs, but can't record the tape on another VCR. If I'm correct (I
could be wrong!), then it isn't so much a question of the DVD recorder
detecting something and refusing to record but, rather, its ability or
inability to handle the degraded portion of the video signal. I suspect
the DVD recorder will run when you try to copy a Macrovision tape, but the
results may be unwatchable.

I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's tried it. What did the
recorded DVD image look like when trying to copy a commercial
copy-protected VHS tape?

-- Bill McC.

 

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I have a Pioneer 220-S DVD Recorder. If I try to copy a copyrighted tape, it
gives me a message and won't record anything. If I try to copy VCR to VCR
the picture does repeated vertical up-frames every few seconds. There must
be something in the signal that affects the VCR but not the TV.

Carol
--
C and A Bredt
"Bill McCutcheon" <wjmccn@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
> news:111hb8q4lgl6k63@corp.supernews.com...
>> phkmn2000wrote:
>>> What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
>>> scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?
>>
>> If the DVD recorder is designed to detect Macrovision
>> (and I suspect most are), then it will refuse to record.
>
> If I remember correctly (and I often don't!), Macrovision isn't so much a
> setting to be detected but, rather, a degradation of part of the video
> signal. TVs can cope with it, but VCRs can't; they need this part of the
> signal full strength. That's why you can play Macrovision tapes OK on
> most TVs, but can't record the tape on another VCR. If I'm correct (I
> could be wrong!), then it isn't so much a question of the DVD recorder
> detecting something and refusing to record but, rather, its ability or
> inability to handle the degraded portion of the video signal. I suspect
> the DVD recorder will run when you try to copy a Macrovision tape, but the
> results may be unwatchable.
>
> I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's tried it. What did the
> recorded DVD image look like when trying to copy a commercial
> copy-protected VHS tape?
>
> -- Bill McC.
>
>

 

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"Carol and Allen Bredt" wrote ...
>I have a Pioneer 220-S DVD Recorder. If I try to copy a
> copyrighted tape, it gives me a message and won't record
> anything. If I try to copy VCR to VCR the picture does
> repeated vertical up-frames every few seconds. There must
> be something in the signal that affects the VCR but not the TV.

That "something" is called Macrovision.

 

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"Carol and Allen Bredt" <abredt22@Xsocal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:Zg7Sd.20927$Tj7.8710@twister.socal.rr.com...
>I have a Pioneer 220-S DVD Recorder. If I try to copy a copyrighted tape,
>it gives me a message and won't record anything. If I try to copy VCR to
>VCR the picture does repeated vertical up-frames every few seconds. There
>must be something in the signal that affects the VCR but not the TV.
>
> Carol
> --
> C and A Bredt

I guessed wrong about how the DVD recorder would react ... not a big
surprise! Thanks, Carol, for satisfying my curiosity and setting me
straight.
-- Bill McC.

 

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In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Jan Panteltje wrote :

>For some dollars you can buy a 'macro vision remover'.

Recommendations, anybody?
--
Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett

 

[Brian]

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"Bill McCutcheon" <wjmccn@earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
>news:111hb8q4lgl6k63@corp.supernews.com...
>> phkmn2000wrote:
>>> What happens to the "macrovision" or whatever that VHS copy protection
>>> scheme is when coping VHS to a DVD recorder?
>>
>> If the DVD recorder is designed to detect Macrovision
>> (and I suspect most are), then it will refuse to record.
>
>If I remember correctly (and I often don't!), Macrovision isn't so much a
>setting to be detected but, rather, a degradation of part of the video
>signal. TVs can cope with it, but VCRs can't; they need this part of the
>signal full strength. That's why you can play Macrovision tapes OK on
>most TVs, but can't record the tape on another VCR. If I'm correct (I
>could be wrong!), then it isn't so much a question of the DVD recorder
>detecting something and refusing to record but, rather, its ability or
>inability to handle the degraded portion of the video signal. I suspect
>the DVD recorder will run when you try to copy a Macrovision tape, but the
>results may be unwatchable.
>
>I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's tried it. What did the
>recorded DVD image look like when trying to copy a commercial
>copy-protected VHS tape?
>
>-- Bill McC.
>
I tried to back up a VHS tape a few years back and the recorded
picture changes to several brighness levels and every few seconds that
picture breaks up or rolls just like a video tape that has had many
generations of being copied.

If you are really keen you can setup a video camera to record off the
TV screen. You need to experiment with different speeds on the camera.
There is a problem of the picture being too bright or too dark at
times.

These days if it's an old program from TV then chances are that you
can buy it cheap on DVD. Even old programs like The Beverley
hillbillies, Green Acres, Steptoe and Son are available on DVD.

Regards Brian

 

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On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:10:21 +0000) it happened Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote in <0bJrSDCdlYGCFwlB@activist.demon.co.uk>:

>In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Jan Panteltje wrote :
>
>>For some dollars you can buy a 'macro vision remover'.
>
>Recommendations, anybody?
I could sell you mine, as I no longer use it (no more VHS), but that would
perhaps get me sued and all that.
I'd get the cheapest one you can find, maybe 20 $ or so, dunno.
I have seen them from 16 UK pounds to 167 $.
The parts in mine are worth maybe 10$
So 167 $ seems a bit on the high side ;-)

 

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Sima Pro SCC-2

"Paul Hyett" <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Jan Panteltje wrote :
>
> >For some dollars you can buy a 'macro vision remover'.
>
> Recommendations, anybody?
> --
> Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett
>
>
>

 

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Macrovision is a process that upsets vertical sync with an added pulse
(I think this is correct). It can be defeated by inserting a video
stabilizer between the VHS machine and the computer (or second VHS).

Regards,

Marv

Carol and Allen Bredt wrote:
> I have a Pioneer 220-S DVD Recorder. If I try to copy a copyrighted tape, it
> gives me a message and won't record anything. If I try to copy VCR to VCR
> the picture does repeated vertical up-frames every few seconds. There must
> be something in the signal that affects the VCR but not the TV.
>
> Carol