Hi guys. Its a while since I copied some movies from my old camera, and now I want to copy some footage from my VHS tapes. Some of the tapes are just home movies (no, not that type !), one has programs off the TV , and I i have one pre-recorded tape that I would like to copy as well. Will I be able to copy the tape with the progs Ive copied off the TV ,and also will I be able to copy the pre-recorded tape or will it be scrambled ? (it was made by the BBC in the 80's). Im only making a DVD for my own use. Cheers in advance
Macrovision might be on the BBC tape. In North America, a DVD recorder would probably honour the protection, whereas a capture card would ignore it. I backed up my protected tapes to DVD recorder using a 20 year old variant of this. http://www.checkhere22.com/stabilizer/ Purists would have the vapours, but it was good enough for me.
thanks Attar. I shouldve mentioned that I do have a firewire port . Can I use that in any way to capture the footage from my VHS recorder ? Because I dont have that much footage to copy, Im a bit loathe to spend too much on this. PC World seem to stock a couple of external devices, (Roxio) but these seem to get slated in most reviews. They do stock some pci cards, which i assume is what I need ? Im not at home so cant check if I have room for it anyway ? Also , i have a pesky virus on my pc , which i cant get rid of. :-(
I don't know anything about FireWire - I use a PCI TV card or for preference a standalone DVD recorder. At http://www.videohelp.com/capture there is a section dedicated to this subject - but I would post the question in the Forum before going too far into it. http://forum.videohelp.com/
In any case if VHS is protected you will have to deal with video stabilizer. My favorite is Grex: http://www.xdimax.com/grex/grex.html It can be used as well for capturing from cable box and DVD Player.
