Re: Transferring VHS to computer

Thanks, both of you guys. I know EP isn't as good for archiving as SP,
but it's kind of late now. Wish I could go back 17 years and tell
myself not to be so cheap and just buy more tapes. Or better yet, tell
myself not to record over the original stuff that was on them. I still
have the original tape from when we got the first VCR in 1983. Wish it
still had stuff from then on it.

Anyway, I don't worry about copyright infringement lawsuits. I don't
think there's ever been a case of someone being sued for uploading a
commercial or intro/outro onto the internet. Commercials are to sell a
product. The more people that see the commercial, the more that are
exposed to the product. In the case of intros and outros, people may
see them and want to buy the show on DVD. It would be one thing if I
were uploading entire episodes or movies (which I won't), but I'm sure
I'm pretty safe with sticking with commercials, intros, and outros.

Here is the page on my card at the Turtle Beach web page:

http://turtlebeach.com/site/products/videocapture/vidadv/howdoesitwork.asp

I am also a gamer, and so my computer is pretty powerful. Two 300 GB
7200 RPM SATA hard drives (one that's right now reserved exclusively
for video editing and SATA ports on the mobo for up to 8 drives), 2 GB
DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card, and an AMD Athlon 64
3200+ CPU that's going to see an upgrade soon. I'm using onboard sound,
but am looking for a sound card that can do stereo hookups. Should be
more then enough for amature video editing?

Here are some examples of what I've done already, though these were
from DVD and Retro Junk has altered the resolution and I'm sure
compressed them further:

Intro 2 and 3: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/55-heathcliff/

Intro 2: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/119-count-duckula/

All were originally recorded in DIVX format, though the software does
AVs, MPEG, and a couple of other formats too.

I'd have to check the manual to see if my combo unit has manual
tracking, but if it doesn't then we still have a regular VCR in storage
somewhere, and I'm positive it does. In the same box I found a couple
of tapes that were basically advertisements, so I'll see about
switching the ribbons over into the shells of the ad tapes. I'll also
check out the software mentioned.

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