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AmiNutall
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22. July 2010 @ 10:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi guys. Its a while since I copied some movies from my old camera, and now I want to copy some footage from my VHS tapes.
Some of the tapes are just home movies (no, not that type !), one has programs off the TV , and I i have one pre-recorded tape that I would like to copy as well.
Will I be able to copy the tape with the progs Ive copied off the TV ,and also will I be able to copy the pre-recorded tape or will it be scrambled ? (it was made by the BBC in the 80's). Im only making a DVD for my own use.

Cheers in advance
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22. July 2010 @ 14:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Macrovision might be on the BBC tape.
In North America, a DVD recorder would probably honour the protection, whereas a capture card would ignore it.
I backed up my protected tapes to DVD recorder using a 20 year old variant of this.

http://www.checkhere22.com/stabilizer/

Purists would have the vapours, but it was good enough for me.
AmiNutall
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23. July 2010 @ 03:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks Attar.

I shouldve mentioned that I do have a firewire port . Can I use that in any way to capture the footage from my VHS recorder ?

Because I dont have that much footage to copy, Im a bit loathe to spend too much on this.
PC World seem to stock a couple of external devices, (Roxio) but these seem to get slated in most reviews.
They do stock some pci cards, which i assume is what I need ? Im not at home so cant check if I have room for it anyway ? Also , i have a pesky virus on my pc , which i cant get rid of. :-(
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23. July 2010 @ 05:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't know anything about FireWire - I use a PCI TV card or for preference a standalone DVD recorder.
At http://www.videohelp.com/capture there is a section dedicated to this subject - but I would post the question in the Forum before going too far into it.
http://forum.videohelp.com/
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xolx
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23. October 2010 @ 15:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In any case if VHS is protected you will have to deal with video stabilizer.
My favorite is Grex: http://www.xdimax.com/grex/grex.html
It can be used as well for capturing from cable box and DVD Player.
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