Turning VHS into Digital Media?
Posted on Sep 08, 2008 under Digital news and reports |Does anybody knows any good converters that you can take VHS tapes and turn them into like a MPEG file for example. Also one that you can stop at a certain moment for the tape.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am
you must first capture the video with a video editing software package. then you can edit and add chapters that your dvd player can stop at.
after all that you have to export and compress the footage with a compressing program. then you have to format it for a DVD. DVD players play MPEG4 formats.
Compressor program will also export to quicktime, avi, ipods, etc.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am
You could hook up your VHS player to your PC with firewire or you could use something like Pinnacle which connects to your pc by usb.
After capturing the video to your hd, you could convert the format with
programs like:
TMPGENC
ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO
XILISOFT VIDEO CONVERTER
There are hundreds of video converter software.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I wanted to do the same thing, so I went to Office Depot and bought something called VHS to DVD 2.0. It’s a box that connects into the red/white/yellow cables on your VCR, and the other end is a USB. Works as a capture device - you play the VCR tape and it “records” it onto your computer as a video file. Works for me.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am
The best conversion would be with something like a Canopus ADVC 300 - that’s only going to be a sensible option if you’ve got several tapes though, otherwise it would be cheaper to have them done commercially.
There are lots of converters such as the Pinnacle Dazzle or the Kworld DVD Maker that plug into your USB port and convert to MPEG-2 on the fly. BTW, DVDs use MPEG-2, not MPEG-4.