VHS ------->DVD??????

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  1. Xboxboy

    Xboxboy Member

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    Hi,

    I was thinking of putting my wedding video (VHS) into dvd format and just wondering what sort of hardware do i need to purchase and what sort of software do i need???.
    At the moment i got a Sony dru-510a

    Thanks :)
     
    Xboxboy, Nov 5, 2003
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  2. alxdotnet

    alxdotnet Guest

    You will need
    1. An analog to DV converter (known as a breakout box) and a FireWire input on your computer.
    or 2. A capture card with an analog input.
    Either option is costly, but the capture card is probably the cheaper way to go.
    You will also need MPEG-2 encoding software (or a good capture card will handle this encoding on the chip itself), video capture software that supports your choice, and DVD authoring software.
     
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  3. Minion

    Minion Senior member

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    You can get a simple Capture Card on E-Bat for Probably $30..I just got an All In Wonder Radeon 7200 64mb AGP Capture card on e-bay for $36 and it captures Fairly good Quality Files, But for the Best Quality I would get what "alxdotnet" Said, A Analogue/Digital Converter ,one of the Best ones to get is the Canopus ADVC-100, They run about $250 US ..Good Luck
     
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  4. ken0042

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    I tried video cards and those capture devices and was never satisfied with the results. I ended up buying the Panasonic DMR-e50 stand alone DVD recorder. Works great.
     
    ken0042, Nov 12, 2003
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  5. FlthyChry

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    Pinnacle has various packages to do this. It depends on the output of your VHS machine as well. I just have video/audio out from RCA jacks so I picked up their USB Linx adapter that comes bundled with Studio 8 LE. Downside is that the video is compressed during capture as well as when rendering. I'm just starting to play with this so I can't comment or recommend it, but I will say that playback on the pc is not very good and I'm still experimenting with all the various codecs.

    Ideally I would have liked no compression whatsoever. I suppose a VHS machine with S out to a PCI card would do this but then a few hundred dollars would have to be spent...
     
    FlthyChry, Nov 13, 2003
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