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Tranferring VHS to Dvd
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Chroma45
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6. December 2006 @ 08:53 |
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If you are going to do any real video editing then don't use a DVD recorder. By real video editing I mean colour correction, adding titles to video, or anything that will cause you to have to re-encode the video. Things like making a custom menu or removing dead space do not require a re-encode. The DVD MPEG2 will lose quality with every encode. I personally use an ATI AIW capturing card mainly because of the versatility. It can capture in almost any format and with multiple resolutions or audio settings. DVD recorders are great because they are fast but only useful if you don't plan on editing your captured videos.
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y9790
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8. December 2006 @ 11:35 |
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Am trying to record old programs to DVD that I recorded onto blank VHS tapes off the TV with a Magnavox MWR20V6 DVD/VCR recorder. Have recorded 7 successfully, but was trying one today and got the message that the program is not allowed to be copied. The error code in the manual says it is a copy probited program. Is it possible that this tape has some sort of copy protection even though I made the tape myself off TV?
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Chroma45
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13. December 2006 @ 20:01 |
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Macro vision inserts an unstable, VSync I think, in the over scan area of the signal. If you have a VHS tape that has an unstable signal (misaligned recording heads or other possible issues) then the recording device is fooled into thinking that the tape has Macro vision protection. The only way around this (or best way) is to use a full frame TBC between the VCR and recording device.
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OlPilot
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14. December 2006 @ 13:16 |
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I have some old analog camcorder family movies that I transferred to VHS tapes years ago (no copy protection, obviously). I was thinking about preserving them on DVD. I'd like to edit them while doing it.
I have a late HP media center computer with 2 gigs of RAM, Lightscribe burner, Nero 7 Ultra, TV tuner, etc. But rather than use the tuner inputs, I also have Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus movie software and a Pinacle Dazzle 90 USB analog capture device. I think I can hook a VHS player directly to the Dazzle 90 device and capture the analog to Studio 9, edit and convert it and burn mpeg DVD's. Or maybe better yet, save the mpegs and convert them to wmv's using Windows Media Encoder, then burn them (much less space without loss of quality). Anybody see a problem with this?
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20. December 2006 @ 09:24 |
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I bow to the experience and knowledge of our more seasoned members here (a big thanks, you've made my life much easier), but I've been using DVD Express from ADS. It's about $40 and it's about as easy as it gets. I've backed up almost all of my home movies, etc. with great results. As to backing up copyrighted media, I would defer to the professionals.
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Chroma45
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21. December 2006 @ 09:10 |
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Originally posted by OlPilot:
I have some old analog camcorder family movies that I transferred to VHS tapes years ago (no copy protection, obviously). I was thinking about preserving them on DVD. I'd like to edit them while doing it.
I have a late HP media center computer with 2 gigs of RAM, Lightscribe burner, Nero 7 Ultra, TV tuner, etc. But rather than use the tuner inputs, I also have Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus movie software and a Pinnacle Dazzle 90 USB analog capture device. I think I can hook a VHS player directly to the Dazzle 90 device and capture the analog to Studio 9, edit and convert it and burn mpeg DVD's. Or maybe better yet, save the mpegs and convert them to wmv's using Windows Media Encoder, then burn them (much less space without loss of quality). Anybody see a problem with this?
Almost all those USB capture devices output as DV AVI which takes lots of space (25GB per hour). Once you have the AVI though you can encode it to any format you wish. It would be better to convert straight to WMV or XviD then from MPEG. Re-encoding the MPEG to WMV will cause some loss of quality over the original.
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chewbkka
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28. December 2006 @ 06:06 |
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My brother lend me his Pinnacle studio version9 to convert my home vhs tapes. It was going smoothly until I wanted to convert them directly to disc(dvd) where it took so long up to 7 hours while it render each segment of the tape. Is there any easier method to do this with this program. It seem alright taking 2 hours for each tape or will be wise to buy a dvd recorder, hook the camera, run it through the dvd recorder/vhs player. I had to uninstall everything.
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28. December 2006 @ 14:26 |
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I've been using DVD Express from ADS with great results. I use the Capture Wizard to rip it into a file (2 hrs or whatever time you have on the tape) and then use Ulead to edit, enhance, and burn the file onto disc. For ease of use you can't beat it and the quality is excellent. I think I've seen it in the stores for between $40-$50
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BOO19
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28. December 2006 @ 16:33 |
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RipDog,
You beat me to it. I have the DVDXpress from ADS Tech. It works great. I have already backed up all of my old VHS tapes. You can also hook up a DVD player instead of a VCR and you don't have to worry about copy protection. It doesn't need to break any enryption. You don't get Dolby 5.1 surround. But if you just want to capture some clips from a film, it works great. I bought it a year ago for $99 CDN, and I am sure it is much cheaper now.
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29. December 2006 @ 04:25 |
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I haven't used it yet to record direct from the tv. Might experiment with that today.
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Chroma45
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29. December 2006 @ 19:45 |
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Originally posted by chewbkka:
My brother lend me his Pinnacle studio version9 to convert my home vhs tapes. It was going smoothly until I wanted to convert them directly to disc(dvd) where it took so long up to 7 hours while it render each segment of the tape. Is there any easier method to do this with this program. It seem alright taking 2 hours for each tape or will be wise to buy a DVD recorder, hook the camera, run it through the dvd recorder/vhs player. I had to uninstall everything.
The problem is that you are not capturing as DVD MPEG2, probably DV AVI. Some capture cards or devices only output as this format so there is nothing you can do to get around this. What kind of capture card are you using?
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Intel21
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4. January 2007 @ 06:15 |
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In my opinion, I think the easiest way to go from vhs to dvd is by using a dvd player/recorder.
For vhs tapes, I have the cable from wall inputted to my vcr, and outputted to my dvd player, then from dvd outputted to my tv, and rca wires outpuuted from dvd to tv. So basically now when i play tapes from my vcr, all i have to do is hit the record button on my dvd player and it will record onto a dvd disc.
I also have a old camcorder that uses 8mm tapes. Putting the content from these to dvd is pretty much the same. I just have the camcorder with the tape inside then have rca wires outputted from the camcorder to the dvd player/recorder. Now i just switch to the channel on my tv, play the camcorder then record on my dvd player.
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Chroma45
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4. January 2007 @ 11:07 |
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It is the easiest for straight captures but if you want to do any real editing then a capture card is necessary.
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mairambia
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11. January 2007 @ 00:32 |
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or you can visit and try VHS to DVD and transfer your home video tapes to dvd. You can get a pretty good conversion at a reasonable price from a lot of places. But what are most of these companies lacking? Care and attention to detail! Other ways you get totally amateurish product done with domestic equipment.
link: http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/
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BadRadBR
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14. January 2007 @ 20:02 |
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A little removed, but still on the topic of transferring VHS to DVD:
I bought the Magnavox MWR20V6 and have had no actual problems with it. However, there is one thing I can't seem to find a solution for. After recording to a DVD the segment shows up in the DVD menu as a 'title'. But the empty space on the disk also shows up as another title. I assumed that when I finalized the disk the blank space wouldn't show up in the menu anymore, but after finalizing it's still there as a non-playable title. I've gone through the manual several times but I can't find a way to get rid of the 'blank space title' that's in the menu. I'm supposed to be able to delete any title before finalizing, but 'blank space titles' don't have that editing option. Am I missing something simple, or has anyone found a way to do this?
Thanks for any help-----Bob Ryan.
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14. January 2007 @ 20:23 |
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Originally posted by mairambia:
or you can visit and try VHS to DVD and transfer your home video tapes to dvd. You can get a pretty good conversion at a reasonable price from a lot of places. But what are most of these companies lacking? Care and attention to detail! Other ways you get totally amateurish product done with domestic equipment.
link: http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/[/quote]
Mairambia, not trying to sell something, are ya?
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moonrocks
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15. January 2007 @ 14:54 |
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Originally posted by Chroma45:
Almost all those USB capture devices output as DV AVI which takes lots of space (25GB per hour)
There are lots of USB capture devices which capture straight to mpeg2. Dazzle, DVD Xpress DX2, etc. Some of them, like the Hauppauge model, are very good.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvrusb2.html
BTW, DV-AVI captures to about 13 GB per hour.
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chewbkka
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16. January 2007 @ 09:57 |
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badrab, I also bought a magnovov recorder and ended doing my camcorder tapes over to dvd in about three hours. also I put them on a dvd rw then copy them onto a dvd r+ . the only thing I have a question is that how you label the dvd in the recorder.
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16. January 2007 @ 13:06 |
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BadRadBR
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17. January 2007 @ 21:05 |
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Another problem. Editing chapters, either adding or deleting, only seems to have an effect when playing back on the Magnavox unit. After recording to DVD I added some chapters with 'edit' mode, then finalized. But when I played the DVD on someone elses DVD player the chapters I added were gone. The only time I can see the chapters I added are if I play back on my Magnavox recorder. I also tried the automatic chapter feature placing a chapter mark every five minutes. I then edited them and deleted every other chapter. After finalizing, I played the DVD in the Magnavox unit and the deleted chapters were gone. But when I play the DVD in someone elses DVD player the deleted chapters are back again! What's up with that? Anyone else notice this?
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welsermb
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20. February 2007 @ 06:22 |
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I have a Magnavox mwr20v6. How do I record part of a vhs to a dvd, pause the recording, and record part of another vhs onto the same dvd, recording where the dvd left off?
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techstyle
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2. March 2007 @ 11:41 |
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you may want to check out the VXC-3000II. It is a device that will clean any unwanted signals that may be hiding themselves within the video signal and causing interference.
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6. March 2007 @ 11:49 |
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Originally posted by gfoyle:
Is there anyway to clean VHS tape copyright protection from your old movies so you can copy them to DVD using the DVD burner in the the basic VHS/DVD burner combo, or do you have to go the computer route?
yes , goes between another vcr for playing and the e1/e2 ports. look a uni t named "copythis!". adjust about midway for signal, do it to it!!!! itworks.//.
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3wire
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6. March 2007 @ 11:55 |
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Originally posted by chewbkka:
My brother lend me his Pinnacle studio version9 to convert my home vhs tapes. It was going smoothly until I wanted to convert them directly to disc(dvd) where it took so long up to 7 hours while it render each segment of the tape. Is there any easier method to do this with this program. It seem alright taking 2 hours for each tape or will be wise to buy a dvd recorder, hook the camera, run it through the dvd recorder/vhs player. I had to uninstall everything.
i write once with recorder from vhs to dvd+REWRITEABLE DISC.
then take dvd=rw to Nero remake dvd, recode, IFF, you arent satisfied with video. saves discs, and it takes time to run movie, and recode time is maybe 35 minutes+- not 7 hrs.. i have pinnacle 9 but dont use for that. if Nero gives read errors for .vob files, use dvddecrypter, it WILL work. then make it like you want it..
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15. July 2007 @ 10:32 |
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Originally posted by welsermb:
I have a Magnavox mwr20v6. How do I record part of a vhs to a dvd, pause the recording, and record part of another vhs onto the same dvd, recording where the dvd left off?
To incrementally add with the Magnavox mwr20v6, I found that when I hit the Stop button on the remote, the DVD goes to "Writing to the disc". Then I can switch to VCR, stop and remove the tape, insert a new tape and start the dub process again. When that one is finished, the DVD will again ;do "Writing to disc" and will create a new "Title" with the 2nd dubbing, and so on. This works for me because, after finalizing, I am importing the .vob files into my computer for further editing.
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