TO Transfering video tape to DVD

1/8/07, 5:59 PM #1

Ernie Miller
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TO Transfering video tape to DVD

Ernie Miller

>Does any one know how to transfer video tapes over to DVD's I got a new puter with a DVD burner and a digital camcorder. now I want to convert all of my old video taped to DVD. I have about 50 tapes of vacations and family. it sure would be nice to convert every thing over and junk the old players and recorders.

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1/8/07, 6:42 PM #2

Brian McKearney
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>Here's one way - I purchased an external DVD burner last Spring that allows you to plug in your external player and burn the DVD's directly. The product that I purchased is Sony VRDMC1 and it offers S-Video and Composite Video inputs so that you can connect your VCR or camcorder directly to this burner and then play the movie on the player and record on the burner. Very simple to use and works well.

Brian

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1/8/07, 6:42 PM #3

Ed in NY
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Ed in NY

>You need this:

http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-350-Personal-Recorder-990/dp/B00008OOWC/sr=8-2/qid=1168281633/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-4060153-4896838?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

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1/8/07, 7:04 PM #4

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's
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what is a "puter"?

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's

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1/8/07, 7:10 PM #5

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla.
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Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla.

>Radio Shack sells a unit for about $100 that you hook up to your VCR and play the tape as usual in your VCR and burn a DVD in the unit. A friend has one and he has been burning DVD's from all his old VCR tapes and the results are great.

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1/8/07, 8:52 PM #6

David Yoho
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I live in Mechanicsville, VA (not far from Richmond) and I've been building furniture and cabinetry for well over 20 years now. It all started with my frustration of not being able to cut a straight line with a hand saw. About this same time, a guy named Norm appeared on my local PBS station. The more I watched, the more I learned. I also started thinking, "Hey, I can do that"! And so, I began with small projects and soon found myself moving up to increasingly advanced work. Word of mouth started the ball rolling and before I knew it, I was building all kinds of things for people. While this is not what I do to pay the bills, it has provided me with a means of equipping my shop over the years. The main downside to all of this is when my wife looks at a finished project and says, "I want one of those" and I know I don't have the time to make that happen right then. I take advantage of any slack time between commissions to work on things we want and this seems to keep her "on my side". She even surprised me one day with a new Tormek sharpening system. Sometimes it pays to leave that tool catalog lying around open! For me, woodworking is a type of therapy. I can go out to the shop and totally forget about the world outside. There have been days when I get out there early and before I know it, it's dark outside and I have no idea where the time went! I also enjoy challenging my skills and learning new things. Most of the time, since the majority of my work tends to be custom pieces, I'm working on projects I�ve never built before. While this takes me longer than if I were doing production work, I find it more appealing because there's always something new to learn. I haven't had any formal training in woodworking. My teachers have been experience, the many books and magazines I've read, WoodCentral, and of course, a guy named Norm.

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1/8/07, 9:45 PM #7

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.
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Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>Not as easy as buying a separate DVD recorder, but you might already have what you need to do the job on your new 'puter.

If your PC has a video capture card and software, you're all set. From your VCR, connect the audio cable to the audio card and the video cable to the video input. Then run the video editing software to do the transfer. If you don't have a dedicated video capture card, your graphics card might have a video input jack that will allow you to do the same thing. If not, buying a separate DVD recorder is probably the easier way (but not necessarily cheaper).

A while ago I purchased a video tuner card for my PC that also does video capture. I transfered my camcorder tapes to DVDs quite easily.

DC

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1/10/07, 11:40 AM #8

Dsmith
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>The easiest way is to buy a stand alone DVD recorder. That will just record your tapes to DVD, it is relatively inexpensive any more.

If you want to edit your movies and have all the menus and scene selections and are willing to spend the time then you can get amazing results with your computer, but it takes quite a bit of time. for starters you must transfer your movies to the computer in real time. if you have an hour of video it will take an hour to copy. then the time for editing which can take a tremendous amount of time, then when you are actually ready to copy to disc you must go through a lengthy compression phase which can take several hours to compress and burn to disc. follow this link for more in depth info.

http://www.aidinc.com/features/dvdfaq.asp

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