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Thread ID: 114853 2010-12-20 03:00:00 Want to copy VCR to PC then to DVD Bryan (147) Press F1
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1163485 2010-12-20 03:00:00 I have a commercial Video that I want to copy to my PC and then save it to a DVD.

How do I go about the first part - copying the video to the PC?
Bryan (147)
1163486 2010-12-20 03:02:00 You'll need a capture card or something. With something like an s-video or some kind of video in input on it. And a program to record the signal / sound. Something like a leadtek tuner would do it. If you can find one Speedy Gonzales (78)
1163487 2010-12-20 03:07:00 www.ascent.co.nz

Something like that, however it's really nice to have something with hardware encoding on the card, as well as audio inputs. Parents have that same model series of card, but it had audio inputs and hardware mpeg encoding. Came with some half decent software. $150. Can't find it anymore though. :(
wratterus (105)
1163488 2010-12-20 03:10:00 I had a leadtek deluxe tuner. But cant use it now. Since it doesnt support 64 bit Speedy Gonzales (78)
1163489 2010-12-20 03:14:00 Ascent also have this (www.ascent.co.nz) on their home page. Not sure if it's any good though. pcuser42 (130)
1163490 2010-12-20 03:16:00 Try Dick Smith XH9726 takes AV from VCR and connects usb to PC comes with it's own s/w jinja_thom (4306)
1163491 2010-12-20 03:17:00 Ascent also have this (www.ascent.co.nz) on their home page. Not sure if it's any good though.

Those are all fine, Leadtek and AverMedia do ones very similar, but the issue is the Mpeg encoding. Unless you have a quick processor (C2D 3GHz +) it will bring things to a screaming halt
wratterus (105)
1163492 2010-12-20 21:56:00 I did this with a cheap tv tuner card with composite video in. the results were surprisingly good. I captured to mpg-2 format so there was no need to re encode for DVD and authored using nervision express - there's an obscure setting somewhere to not re encode compliant mpg 2 video that speeds thing up tremendously.

Bear in mind however that capture devices may have copy protection built in using the old macrovision system and may refuse to capture commercial VHS content.
dugimodo (138)
1163493 2010-12-21 08:01:00 Why not cut out the middleman.If you are not too concerned about quality why don't you hook up your VCR to your DVD recorder,copy it on to the hard drive then you can either choose to keep it there to watch or then record it to DVD. I've done this with quite a few of my old VCR tapes. amyes5 (2773)
1163494 2010-12-21 08:32:00 ...why don't you hook up your VCR to your DVD recorder...
Who said he had a dvd recorder?
pine-o-cleen (2955)
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