Down loading vhs into a computer?

[crzy4dsny]

I recently purchased the Dazzle DV clip software. It came with a ieee 1304 card that I needed for my computer and Pinnacle Studio Quickstart 8. I got it on E-Bay for 99 cents.

I just finished making a movie out of our last Disney Cruise. I love this software, it is simple to use and the movie came out awesome. I down loaded to it from my new digital video camera.

Is there any way of hooking up a vhs camera to some kind of converter first, then go from the converter into the computer? I would like to take the tons of old vhs video that I have, get it into this program for editing, then put it on DVD. Is there any way of doing this?

 

[RadioNate]

you need some kind of analog to digital converter. Check to see if your video camera has a pass through mode, that is what I use.

The funny thing is that our new miniDV camera doesn't have pass through, but our old HUGE Hi8 camera does so we kept it just for pass-through capibilities.

I've transfered all our old VHS to DVD. My DS has gotten a real kick out of my HS tapes!

 

[JR6ooo4]

Sure I just bought one. We have a six year old analog camcorder. I got a USB adapter that converts from the standard left/right audio and a video RCA jack as well as a s-video in. Since you have the software you just need the capture adapter, I think.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSi...azzle+Video+Archiving/Dazzle+DVD+Recorder.htm

$50 full retail

Mikeeee

 

[Groucho]

There are countless video-in options... of varying quality. But most stuff nowadays is fairly decent.

Using the camcorder is an option although you may get a loss of quality from making a copy of a copy, depending on how you do it. Many desktop video cards (especially performance ones) have built-in video in/video out. You can buy an assortment of add-in cards, internal PCI ones or external USB ones.

The absolute best quality is obtained by capturing via a good card into a very low-compression format (something like Huffyuv), then using a multipass compressor to put it into DVD-ready mpeg2 or whatever format you're after, along with using some good filters (deinterlacing, cleanup, etc) to "pretty-up" the video. This takes a ton of space (about 10 gigs per hour for the huffyuv video) and a long time (the good mpeg2 compressors are very slow.)

The good news is that VHS is such terrible quality that it's often not worth the extra effort! Most any video editing package will have the ability to capture video direct to DVD-ready mpeg2 video and author the DVD - much faster and easier that the other method, and the quality isn't really horrible, just not as good.

 

[crzy4dsny]

Sure I just bought one. We have a six year old analog camcorder. I got a USB adapter that converts from the standard left/right audio and a video RCA jack as well as a s-video in. Since you have the software you just need the capture adapter, I think.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSi...azzle+Video+Archiving/Dazzle+DVD+Recorder.htm

$50 full retail

Mikeeee

With the Dazzle DVD Recorder do you know if I would be able to edit? Or will it just go straight from tape to DVD?

 

[JR6ooo4]

With the Dazzle DVD Recorder do you know if I would be able to edit? Or will it just go straight from tape to DVD?

Yes with my $80 package I got the connector and software. THe software can edit as easy as cut and paste down to hundreths of a second.
Yes you can also capture straight to dvd or to your HD and then edit. Like trimming excess and adding chapters and menus.

Mikeeee

But your existing progam should be able to do that. look in the help dropdown menu for video tutorials. It is the easiest way to see the capabilities of the program.