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Started by Alan in Chit-Chat

Hey,
I’ve gotten sick of my standalone dvd burner, which I was hooking up to my video player, to transfer my vhs T? stuff to dvd. The results were sometimes quite pixelated, especially from the older poorer quality video tapes.

I finally invested in a good quality PC, and I’d like to do it right and transfer the videotapes properly to dvd.

Can anyone recommend a good package I should buy?

Posted on Thu, 19 July 2007 at 21:35

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Citizen Erased wrote:

No, but I’d be interested to know what other people think though.

You must have a wealth of T? stuff on VHS I’m guessing?

Posted on Thu, 19 July 2007 at 21:42

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

ya i’d like to put some T? stuff up on youtune but havent a clue how to get stuff from vhs to digital land. Got Andy and Michael on the beat box with Ian Dempesy from 94, worth a watch.

Posted on Thu, 19 July 2007 at 23:14

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soul doubt (an) wrote:

I’ve actually did the opposite recently. I bought a standalone, and it’s a lot easier (you don’t always have to mess with the cables) and faster, so far the quality is also better when I use a standalone DVD-recorder.

I always used Win-DVR to rip the video, to burn to DVD I used Nero, you can make basic menus with that… lately it only took my computer 6 hours to burn a dvd, (and since a good standalone dvd-recorder was still cheaper than a new PC, …)

Since last week I started ripping my videos with my standalone and transfer them to PC (my boyfriend’s, which is quite a bit faster than mine) and make menu’s with DVD-Lab, you can make very professional menu’s with it! Very nice program! :)

@ Kill Hill: If you succeed, any chance you’re interested in a trade?

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 07:25

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Alan wrote:

I’m guessing you bought a stand-alone with a hard-drive?

Mine doesn’t have one. Maybe that’s the way to go then…

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 07:53

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soul doubt (an) wrote:

Yeah, mine has a hard-drive indeed, no pixeling so far… fingers crossed :)

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 08:04

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

i’m a bit of a techno winnie and i have a lack money. I have a lap top and a video player. what else do i need to transfer vid to laptop? keep it simple :).

ya no bother with sendin you a dvd soul doubt.

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 09:15

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Gimme Back My Brainsaw (grant the black smoke monsters coming) wrote:

Some sort of pci card with video composite input is neeeded i’d assume

or maybe a usb adaptor.

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 09:38

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soul doubt (an) wrote:

some cables… but i’m very bad in naming them… I’ll try to describe, I’m sure someone on here can give the correct name of them)

- A scart-block where you can plug in an S-video cable and a sound cable (2 plugs, white (or black) and red)
- an S-video cable
- a soundcable (male) white or black and red on one side and a single plug on the other side, which is black (to plug in where you would plug in your headphones)

Before you buy these things, first check if your laptop has connections for these cables.

I hope this information was useful… :)

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 09:47

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mrs h wrote:

I used to do that in my job and I used ATI software to capture the video and Serif Movie Plus to edit it. I really liked both of them. ATI is not so user friendly, but the online help is really good. Serif movie Plus is great, easy to use and cheap compared to a lot of other software.

Soul Doubt is right though - you should check what connections you have on your laptop first, there are lots of ways of wiring stuff up, you can always get adapters to fit what you have.

I had a ‘monster cable’ attached to the tv card, and then I could plug either a VCR, DVD or camcorder directly into the monster cable.

Posted on Fri, 20 July 2007 at 16:08

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