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Need advice to capture VHS tapes on pc/dvd
Most of my friends were having some VHS home movies shot regarding 25 years ago which I am enthusiastic to transfer to my laptop and on to DVD. I am assuming that to facilitate the tapes are tranquil OK that remains to be seen. In addition assuming our VCR is tranquil OK too it has not been utilized for five or six years other than was quite a superior one and not extremely old when they stopped utilizing it. I have a practically decent-spec laptop - Asus G73JH through a Core i7 Q720 1.60 GHz CPU and Windows 7 64. I do not be familiar with if the graphics card is actually relevant here other than it's an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870.
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Old 03-04-2012
DanielaA DanielaA is offline
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Re: Need advice to capture VHS tapes on pc/dvd
Those adaptors give the impression of being similar to the one I utilized a small number of years back although I do not imagine they are the similar as the one I had was not as pretty as those ones. You determine to in addition necessitate a number of sort of capture software. Commencing from memory I had utilized Pinnacle Studio or a number of variant of it to capture the streams and then re-encode onto a DVD.
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Old 03-04-2012
GALIENA GALIENA is offline
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It seems that the necessary software commencing from side to side the adapter, on a DVD. It merely clean the heads of the VCR first to make sure the most excellent quality, VHS is bad sufficient without anything else creating it worse! I imagine it from memory there's a fair bit of free software out there if you desire to do several basic editing of the stuff, and if you had acquired fancy you be able to position chapters on your DVD so you be able to jump to the good bits.
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Old 03-04-2012
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The laptop actually has merely USB inputs, i.e. no video inputs. There's a lot of substance on the entire this on the internet additional than a number of it is a bit confusing. I have encompassed and been attempting to locate out whether my laptop might somehow capture the video natively additional than have not been capable to determine that. It seems to me that to facilitate I necessitate an RCA to USB video capture dongle/adapter.
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Old 03-04-2012
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It essentially works pretty well. Utilized a Panasonic VCR/DVD combo do not recall model in the past and even acquire to generate menu structure etc. I was in the similar position so purchased a RSA. The USB dongle through a windows disk of software. Problem is I am working with ubuntu and have not originated a suitable software package. Several ideas might be most welcome otherwise it goes on Trademe.
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Old 04-04-2012
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I have done the similar job utilizing Ulead or Pinnacle, and the outcome was ok, I then ran the consequential files commencing from side to side a conversion app to do a diminutive bit of cropping and convert the humongous. The MPEG files into an additional manageable size and then burnt it straight off to a playable DVD. It was moderately quick & easy. I do not recall what the editing software was that to facilitate I utilized to chop it up through other than it might well just have been Windows Movie Maker which IIRC did an ok job.
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