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Horness Spencer (Horness)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 04:51 am: | 
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I have some old home movies on VHS that I would really like to convert to VCD (or something that will play in my DVD player).
Items I already have are:
Sony SE800 video player
PC with ATI Radeon card
Yamaha SCSI CDRW
Multi Region MP3+VCD etc. DVD player
I also have a video capture card in my box of "spares". (Pretty sure it's a Pinacle)
What would I need (hardware and software) to put them onto a disc?
Any help appreciated
Horness |
Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 05:48 am: |
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I've got a Terapin VCD recorder and it does a great job of taking those old VHS and putting them on a blank CDr so we can watch them on the computer or DVD player. www.goterapin.com I think is their website. I bought mine off of eBAY about a year ago. Later.. RS |
Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 10:01 am: |
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I would think the Pinacle capture card came with software to do this. I would look into that before spending any money. Sounds like you have everything you need. |
RVR OVR (Tom)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 10:26 am: |
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Depends on how fast your computer is and how big your hard drive is. Basically, you are doing an Analog to Digital capture and conversion. If your computer is fast enough, you should be able to capture the video at a good enough quality for VCD. Then, you need VCD authoring software convert and burn the video to VCD format. VCD format is basically MPEG-1 (DVD is MPEG-2), and most VCD creators can convert to that format from other formats for you. You will want to capture at the highest quality your computer can handle, and then covert to MPEG-1 at the burn time.
I have found the TMPEG does the best conversion ot MPEG-1 and Roxio software does a good job at burning VCD's. One thing to keep in mind however, is that typical CD-R can only handle 1 hour of video in MPEG-1 (VCD) format. So, you will have to most likely split your 2-hour VHS tapes onto two VCD's.
Tom |
RVR OVR (Tom)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 10:27 am: |
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Oh yeah, be sure your DVD players supports CD-R. Some don't.
Tom |
muskyman
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 10:59 am: |
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all good advice!
i have found digital digestto be a great source for information...its kinda like disco-web for dvd/divx junkies.
on there forum look for questions answered by"enchanter" she is a major guru in this field and can save you huge amounts of time pointing you in the direction of freeware and shortcuts.
just like D-web doing a search will show you 50 people that have asked the same question you are about to.
have fun
thom |
Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 01:44 pm: |
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www.vcdhelp.com |
Horness Spencer (Horness)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 05:36 am: |
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Thanks guys.
My PC is a dual 1Gig with 1.5Gb of RAM, and 2 x 120Gb drives (plus 1 x SCSI 36Gb system drive).
The writer is a SCSI Yamaha 8x8x40 affair which has not yet done me wrong.
I'll put the pinacle card in, and see what software I can "acquire".
The tapes are only about an hour long anyway, so hopefully I will not need to span 2 CD's. Or I can find a minute or two to strip out.
Horness |
Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 08:26 am: |
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Horness with a cool system like that, why don't you get a DVD writer? $300 for a good one.
Dean |
Horness Spencer (Horness)
| | Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:54 am: |
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Dean - I may just pick one up to replace my DVD drive with, but the DVD media is still quite pricey (in comparison).
I really wanted to wait until they could burn MPEG-2, for DVD > DVD copying. >:-)
The worst part of the system at present is the 64Mb DDR ATi Radeon graphics card. I hoping to pick up a GF 128Mb card just after Christmas.
Horness |
Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
| | Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:03 pm: |
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Horness,
Compusa often has good deals on DVD-Rs for about $1.80 each after rebates, although I tend to use the RWs because I manage to F*$% up quite often with my software.
Dean |
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