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Convert VHS to DVD
balasubas:
--- Quote ---I want to convert some of my VHS to DVD but I dont understand a thing about it. I just want a straight dub only but if I can edit the better. It depends on the price of the equipment. For the mean time, I just want to know how do you upload vhs to computer? Once uploaded what type file will the audio/video be? For the mean time I might convert it to VCD while Im still scouting for a DVD writer. How do I avoid the sync problem or any other problem? Someone suggested to use capture card. How does it work and how about the software? Do I have to upgrade my computer, Im only using a Pentium 3 733MHz with 20G Hard Disk and Liteon CDR? Hope you can help me on my next project. I have no plans of making it a business, only personal use so I dont plan to spend too much but at least good quality conversion. Once uploaded to my HD, how do you burn VCD's? Thanks
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I just tried this once, hopefully, i remember the steps correctly.
1. You will need a capture card. I have the Winfast TV2000 XP tuner card with video capture. You can use an RCA jack to connect the VHS to the capture card for the video and then a mini headphone jack to connect to the soundcard's line in (you might need a converter jack).
2. Play the VHS tape and then record it using the software provided for the capture card. You can capture it using several codecs: divx, mpeg1, mpeg2, uncompressed AVI. The Winfast TV2000 software can be configured to use additional video and audio codecs.
20 GB of hard disk would be too small, IMHO. With your processor's speed, this will be the bottleneck. You can use the MPEG1 codec, but the processor will have a hard time converting the analog video to MPEG1 on-the-fly. I have 1 P3-750 processor, and when I convert to MPEG1 on-the-fly, I get skipped frames.
To resolve this, I used the AVI uncompressed codec which use a very large amount of my hard drive. 5 GB for a 12 minute video..
By the way, you can also use a program called VirtualDub. Some say this is better in capturing videos. I just used it in capturing from TV, not yet from a VHS, so not sure about the difference between them.
3. Just in case you decide to upgrade your hard drive to a larger one, the AVI can be converted to a VCD-compliant MPEG1 file using a program called TMPGEnc (free). I prefer to use this one, though there are many more downloadable from the internet.
4. Once converted to a VCD-compliant file, you can cut the movie (if it's too large to fit on a disc) using TMPGEnc.
5. Burn the MPEG1 file using Nero (my preferred software).
I'm sure others have different ways on capturing videos from VHS. Keep them coming, as I am also just starting to learn this thing. :)
Battousai:
I think VHS/Video8, Mini-DV to DVD conversion should be offered at 500 Pesos only.
Opinion lang naman. ;D
sandawa:
balasubas (what a nice name!) is correct. it's really simple if you have the right equipment and software. i wonder why you need to charge so high for such simple work. i'd say half or up to 2/3 of the Greenhills rate would be reasonable. me, i charged my friends and relatives only a hundred bucks for such transfer including the disk, until i run out of materials to copy and got peeved with getting a lot of requests. maybe i'll charge P500 per disk one of these days.
lekxxz:
--- Quote ---I want to convert some of my VHS to DVD but I dont understand a thing about it. I just want a straight dub only but if I can edit the better. It depends on the price of the equipment. For the mean time, I just want to know how do you upload vhs to computer? Once uploaded what type file will the audio/video be? For the mean time I might convert it to VCD while Im still scouting for a DVD writer. How do I avoid the sync problem or any other problem? Someone suggested to use capture card. How does it work and how about the software? Do I have to upgrade my computer, Im only using a Pentium 3 733MHz with 20G Hard Disk and Liteon CDR? Hope you can help me on my next project. I have no plans of making it a business, only personal use so I dont plan to spend too much but at least good quality conversion. Once uploaded to my HD, how do you burn VCD's? Thanks
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Technically speaking, it is not recommended to convert VHS to DVD coz pareho lang ang magiging output. You can enhanced the quality thru a DVD stabilizer card kaya lang its very expensive and its not available here in the Philippines. I was able to buy one in Singapore.
With regards to capturing, first, you will need a video capture card. If you plan to make a VCD, try capturing in MPEG1. If DVD (or even SVCD), use MPEG2. Not all capture cards supports capturing in MPEG2 format.
I'm using ATI All in Wonder 8500 DV 128MB Video capture card and Snazzi III DVD USB edition. But if your budget is not that high, try going for Pinnacle Products. The Pinnacle Studio VCD cost around 3K or less kaya lang it supports MPEG1 only. If you plan to convert videos to DVD, i recommend that you purchased a firewire capture card.
For the software, you can use the one that was inluded in your capture card. Or if you want, you could use some DVD/CD authoring software such as Ulead DVD workshop, DVDiT and other authoring tools which supports video capturing.
If you want to make fully animated DVD's with menus or VCD with menus and special effects, try using an authoring software. Nero only provides you with very simple menus.
You could try Power Director Pro (it supports the PIP function in making VCD/DVD) or Ulead DVD workshop (supports menus and special effects for your VCD/DVD). They are very easy to use.
For advanced authoring, Adobe Premiere and Impression DVD Pro are excellent tools to make your own DVD's.
levi:
--- Quote from: balasubas on Jul 05, 2003 at 03:31 AM ---I just tried this once, hopefully, i remember the steps correctly.
1. You will need a capture card. I have the Winfast TV2000 XP tuner card with video capture. You can use an RCA jack to connect the VHS to the capture card for the video and then a mini headphone jack to connect to the soundcard's line in (you might need a converter jack).
2. Play the VHS tape and then record it using the software provided for the capture card. You can capture it using several codecs: divx, mpeg1, mpeg2, uncompressed AVI. The Winfast TV2000 software can be configured to use additional video and audio codecs.
20 GB of hard disk would be too small, IMHO. With your processor's speed, this will be the bottleneck. You can use the MPEG1 codec, but the processor will have a hard time converting the analog video to MPEG1 on-the-fly. I have 1 P3-750 processor, and when I convert to MPEG1 on-the-fly, I get skipped frames.
To resolve this, I used the AVI uncompressed codec which use a very large amount of my hard drive. 5 GB for a 12 minute video..
By the way, you can also use a program called VirtualDub. Some say this is better in capturing videos. I just used it in capturing from TV, not yet from a VHS, so not sure about the difference between them.
3. Just in case you decide to upgrade your hard drive to a larger one, the AVI can be converted to a VCD-compliant MPEG1 file using a program called TMPGEnc (free). I prefer to use this one, though there are many more downloadable from the internet.
4. Once converted to a VCD-compliant file, you can cut the movie (if it's too large to fit on a disc) using TMPGEnc.
5. Burn the MPEG1 file using Nero (my preferred software).
I'm sure others have different ways on capturing videos from VHS. Keep them coming, as I am also just starting to learn this thing. :)
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Thanks balasubas and lekxxz
Thanks but if my HD wont fit and my processor is too slow then I guess I cant do the conversion. How bad is the drop frame and is there another way to prevent this? What would be a cheap but good capture card? Im thinking of getting a card that could also do DVD but if the price is too high, I could settle on VCD cards only then I will just buy another card next time. Someone is recommending Studio PCTV Gen 5. How is it and do you think this is what I need? OK din ba Winfast?
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