I've done this before. I bought a relatively inexpensive tv card. http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000xp_deluxe_1.html
and hooked up the vcr. It's pretty simple. Or I should say, it can be really simple, or can be really complex depending on how good of quality you need. The program that comes with the card can capture and compress DVD quality on the fly on my AMD 2500+, or if you really want to get the best quality, you capture uncompressed, deinterlace it via different methods based on personal preference, clean up the picture using vcr specialized filters in Virtual Dub<http://www.virtualdub.org/>, add nice transistions with your favorite video editor, and then either write to MiniDV or create a MPEG from it. The biggest problem I had with analog to digital capture was that the sound card on my motherboard would not sync the audio with the video. Once I reinstalled my SB PCI 512 board, the audio sync problems went away. I also had some better luck using a program called virtual vcr <http://www.digtv.ws/> as it had an option to resample the audio based on the video frequency. > -----Original Message----- > From: Harkins, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:38 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: VHS transfer > > hi, > does anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer vhs to > digital...mpg or whatever? > -Patrick > > > Outbound email scanned for viruses. (e230) > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:136479 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
