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Thread ID: 25913 2002-10-14 22:59:00 VCR to AVI Dylan (800) Press F1
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89253 2002-10-14 22:59:00 I want to copy a VCR to avi. I have no experience in copying/editing/compressing video.

My friend has a video capture card, a VCR and Ulead Video Studio 4 (off the PC World CD a while back).

How would I go about copying a cassette to avi. would I need extra hardware? would I need better/different software? How much disk space would it take?

Note the video is 3 hr long. (i heard that avi is 13gb/hr!!!)

Thanks in advance
Dylan
Dylan (800)
89254 2002-10-15 04:39:00 You don't want to convert it to AVI, MPEG, will give you better compression.
check out http://www.tomshardware.com
also do a PressF1 search. for converting TV, or VCR
roofus (483)
89255 2002-10-15 04:51:00 all depends on which codec you use. mpeg1 is horrible but mpeg4 is so sweet. there are a few different mpeg4 codecs. tweak'e (174)
89256 2002-10-24 22:38:00 Been down this road, more than once ...

Try www.vcdhelp.com as a starting point.

I use 2 options

1) PowerDVD for recording on air TV programs for viewing later. Can also be used to do a quick and dirty VCR tape to VCD conversion. Quality so so

2) For converting VCR tapes to SuperVCD for playing in DVD's an PC's, I use TMPGen, etc to create the MPG2's etc. Lots of time consuming work to get the optimum quality up. But all the details are in the VCD help forums
fishfarm (2250)
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