So I have years of old home movies on VHS and 8 mm and want to leap ahead and convert them to DVD
What is the best choice of hardware to aquire?
Do any of you have any experience doing this?
What sofware will I need.
Thanks In Advance for all advice.
762nato
Converting home movie videos to DVD
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762nato
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Converting home movie videos to DVD
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Since its coming from a analog source your gonna need a video capture card of somekind..
Im about to order myself a 9600proAIW since my AIW9700 refurb from newegg was a dud
The AIW and Vivo's from ati do great captures as long as you have the horsepower to back them up.
Im about to order myself a 9600proAIW since my AIW9700 refurb from newegg was a dud
The AIW and Vivo's from ati do great captures as long as you have the horsepower to back them up.
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Depends. The cheaper route is to get a good quality TV tuner card that supports S-Video and composite inputs. Then you can record the VHS movies straight to MPEG2 which you can then turn around and burn onto a DVD.
I have the Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe and it is a NICE card. I love it. I think blade has the same one. I got mine for like $50 at newegg.
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We've got a section now for video editing, doesn't look like it's being used much though.
Anyway, I use a ATI 7500 radeon AIW card for capturing. Many ways to get good to great results depending how much time and work you want to put into it.
For a fast job I capture directly to Mpeg 2 and drop that file into Tmpgenc DVD author, create my DVD and burn with the programs built in burner.
For VHS I use 352x480, 48,000hz audio. Forget the ATI presets, I found them all to be crap for anything I do! Also be shure you have MMC 7.7 or above! Below 7.7 ATI was stupid and did not have a setting for 48,000hz audio and therefore you could not capture a DVD compliant Mpeg 2 file!
All DVD R's are 4.7 gig disks, to adjust the amount of time you get out of one for a movie you adjust the bitrate you capture at. Of course the higher the Bitrate the better quality, larger file size, and less time you can fit on a disk!
4,000-8,000 bps can be used for DVDs.
If you want to back up your comercail VHS movie collection to DVD you will also need something to eliminate Macrovision! I use a Facet video clarfier, was $100 but works great! Plug it in and forget about it.
If you want to get fancy, put in a ton of time, and strive for the absolute best quality you can get, then there is alot more you can do!
But VHS on a DVD is still VHS! Just on a disk instead of tape!
Anyway, I use a ATI 7500 radeon AIW card for capturing. Many ways to get good to great results depending how much time and work you want to put into it.
For a fast job I capture directly to Mpeg 2 and drop that file into Tmpgenc DVD author, create my DVD and burn with the programs built in burner.
For VHS I use 352x480, 48,000hz audio. Forget the ATI presets, I found them all to be crap for anything I do! Also be shure you have MMC 7.7 or above! Below 7.7 ATI was stupid and did not have a setting for 48,000hz audio and therefore you could not capture a DVD compliant Mpeg 2 file!
All DVD R's are 4.7 gig disks, to adjust the amount of time you get out of one for a movie you adjust the bitrate you capture at. Of course the higher the Bitrate the better quality, larger file size, and less time you can fit on a disk!
4,000-8,000 bps can be used for DVDs.
If you want to back up your comercail VHS movie collection to DVD you will also need something to eliminate Macrovision! I use a Facet video clarfier, was $100 but works great! Plug it in and forget about it.
If you want to get fancy, put in a ton of time, and strive for the absolute best quality you can get, then there is alot more you can do!
But VHS on a DVD is still VHS! Just on a disk instead of tape!
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