|
pc
newsgroups
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
VHS to DVD: please advise
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. $$$$ What's your expert advice? Many many thanks in advance. Buy a dvd recorder (ideally with hard drive) and at the end of it all you
have something you can put to regular use. It's also is a lot quicker if you are not planning on any fancy editting. Show quoteHide quote "Sai" <SaiPrasa***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1130281637.180356.188840@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > Comrades, > > What I have: > - Bunch of VHS home videos > - A hi-fi VCR with co-ax and composite outputs. > - A DV camcorder with S-Video input that can output to a DV tape or to > a PC directly through firewire. > - A fairly new PC with DVD burner and firewire and authoring software. > Good stuff. Have created lot of DVDs from my DV tapes. > > What I don't have: > S-Video output on my VCR > > What is the best way to get the VHS content on to DV or PC so I can > burn DVDs? > > Option 1: Buy a VCR with S-Video output. Is there such a thing? I > thought only DVD players and S-VHS VCRs have S-Video output. Or is > there a DVD-VCR combo that has S-Video for BOTH DVD and VCR sides? > > Option 2: RCA DT5CS appears to be a little thingamazig that can convert > composite signal to S-Video. This is cheap. But will it work? One of my > friends thinks Option 1 is better because I get a S-Video output. But I > contend that the tape is already VHS so I won't gain anything by having > S-Video output. > > Option 3: Video capture card. I don't want to overload my PC with more > stuff anymore - it already has so many things on it. Besides if Option > 1 works I have something I can use for more purposes. > > Option 4: Buy a DV camcorder with analog inputs. $$$$ > > What's your expert advice? > > Many many thanks in advance. > 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: Show quoteHide 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. pakmc***@earthlink.net wrote:
> I am also considering the option you suggest. It works if you don't There'll be some recompression loss, but generational loss with this > 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) 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. "Sai" <SaiPrasa***@gmail.com> writes: Are you sure the camcorder does not have a plain composite video input>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. 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 Sai wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > Comrades, You sure your camera doesn't have composite video input? I would think> > 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? 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 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Other interesting topics