Re: All these VHS tapes need moving to DVDs.
- From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <a_nani_mouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:20:12 -0700
"Mike Ray" <mer1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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valvejob wrote:
I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.
I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).
Suggestions?
I also need to move about 25 VHS (and some Hi-8) home movies to DVD.
I have used a PCI card from Pinnacle Studio to make a DVD from my Hi-8
analog video camera using S-Video. The software has lots of editing
features but is not the most stable (crashed to desktop sometimes).
Pinnacle Studio 10 is what I use for VHS captures, but as some of the tapes
I am converting need adjustments for brightness, color level and color tone
it is a trial and error process.
I am looking for software to help with the adjustment process but I have not
found any so far, in fact not any discussion of these adjustments that
helps.
Yes I am very unhappy with Pinnacle Studio 10 as it crashes a very lot for
me, for mpeg2 video files the input must be perfect with no problems at all
or it will not render the desired DVD.
I had to switch to SVCD2DVD (I got
lucky, $2.08, £1 still on the web page) to do the last DVD.
Some of the capture problems can be overcome with Pinnacle Studio 10 filters
but the result is poor compared with adjusting the input parameters.
I have several possibilities for VHS capture, my two Graphics cards ASUS
EAX1600 (XT, PRO) Silent in my two computers.
I also have the possibility using my two HDTV tuners, one not recommended
and a FUSION5 RT Gold which I used last time with success (Except for the
pain of trying to get the adjustments for brightness, color level and color
tone right).
I plan to use my graphics card for the next VHS capture.
had some video taken ocean-side where the wind noise was high and using
the 'wind filter' I could reduce wind noise so you could now understand
and hear us talking!
Yes, Pinnacle Studio is great if it does not crash.
The Pinnacle Dazzle is a cheap USB device that would work. Someone at work
moved a 30min training video from VHS to DVD using the Dazzle and it
worked fine.
I also just got the Pinnacle HD PRO STICK and have recorded HDTV BUT I
have not tried the the S-Video or composite inputs yet and the newer
software version (Ver. 10.7) with the PRO Dtick is not much better then
the older PCI card version (Ver. 9.4). In fact I like 9.4 better but it
will not edit HD and I have yet been able to burn a HD program to DVD.
-Mike
As I said before, try SVCD2DVD or its free HDTV2DVD version.
Look at FlyCap (free). It appears to have the same capture controls as
Pinnacle Studio 10. There are many free programs to help build the DVD's
but none as useful as Pinnacle Studio 10. That is, if it would not crash so
much.
Try the S-Video or composite inputs, they may work just fine for VHS
capture.
Also look at the Doom9 web pages, lots of information there.
.
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