I want to backup VCR tapes by using Windows Movie Maker. What caputure device is recommended?
churin wrote: > I want to backup VCR tapes by using Windows Movie Maker. What caputure > device is recommended? ===================== Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas: Windows Vista - Toss out those VHS tapes http://tinyurl.com/2xzmkb or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/73ecbf91-bddd-4b26-b69b-c73547565d901033.mspx Windows Vista - Import video from an analog video camera or VCR through a DV camera http://tinyurl.com/2ockxc or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/3ae62d5e-29e2-41eb-b326-9e42ac46b7021033.mspx -- John Inzer
John Inzer wrote: > churin wrote: >> I want to backup VCR tapes by using Windows Movie Maker. What caputure >> device is recommended? > ===================== > Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas: > > Windows Vista - > Toss out those VHS tapes > http://tinyurl.com/2xzmkb > or... > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/73ecbf91-bddd-4b26-b69b-c73547565d901033.mspx > > Windows Vista - > Import video from an analog video > camera or VCR through a DV camera > http://tinyurl.com/2ockxc > or... > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/3ae62d5e-29e2-41eb-b326-9e42ac46b7021033.mspx > Thanks for your response. Anyone using Dazzle Video Creator Platinum?
I was tossing up buying a combo DVD recorder with a built in VHS player...they claim to easily transfer VHS to DVD...then it would be a matter of inserting DVD into PC and loading video files from there. -- Clevo ___________________________ Windows Vista Home Premium x64 + SP1 ASUS P5K MB Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 4GB RAM (DDR2) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Realtek HD onboard sound Helpful links: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/3d0c5a49-8f61-45cc-8a7d-38c4695ba9291033.mspx#EEE
My choice to do this was to purchase a combination VCR/DVD Recorder. I put the tape in one side and dub the video to a blank DVD disc. As such, this can serve as a 'copy' of the VHS video in digital form and no further work is necessary. However, I usually do go further and load the .vob files from the DVD to my computer hard drive. In order to get the .vob files ready for Movie Maker, it is necessary to convert them to a compatible file type. For this I use VirtualDub for MPEG2 with the WMV9 codec. The resulting .avi file is imported into Movie Maker and I go from there. "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message news:%23WncvU33IHA.5088@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I want to backup VCR tapes by using Windows Movie Maker. What caputure >device is recommended?
Clevo wrote: > I was tossing up buying a combo DVD recorder with a built in VHS > player...they claim to easily transfer VHS to DVD...then it would be a > matter of inserting DVD into PC and loading video files from there. ===================================== If you just want simple copies of the VHS tapes... a DVD recorder is definitely the way to go. This way you don't even need a computer. -- John Inzer
On Request wrote: > My choice to do this was to purchase a combination VCR/DVD Recorder. I > put the tape in one side and dub the video to a blank DVD disc. As > such, this can serve as a 'copy' of the VHS video in digital form and no > further work is necessary. However, I usually do go further and load > the .vob files from the DVD to my computer hard drive. In order to get > the .vob files ready for Movie Maker, it is necessary to convert them to > a compatible file type. For this I use VirtualDub for MPEG2 with the > WMV9 codec. The resulting .avi file is imported into Movie Maker and I > go from there. > > "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message > news:%23WncvU33IHA.5088@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> I want to backup VCR tapes by using Windows Movie Maker. What caputure >> device is recommended? > Thanks everyone for your response. I realize that wording of my original post may be misleading. I wanted VCR to simply represent analogue recording. My immediate need is to digitize video tape recordings taken by a type of analogue movie camera whose recording is not compatible VHS player. I have VCR tapes to digitally archive though.
