Re: VHS to DVD

[Dan K]

supershanefx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
>So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access
>to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my
>titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a
>regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also).
IMO the best way to go directly from analog video to DVD is with the USB 
Instant DVD for Mac device, under $200 at OWC:


I made a very picky customer very happy after he had tried a number of 
other solutions (eg: vhs-FWbridge-DV-iMovie-iDVD-DVD.) It was the 
simplest solution of all, plus it produced the cleanest-looking DVDs. The 
resulting mpeg files aren't easily directly editable the way are DV files 
but the included SW does allow for trims and similar simple edits. Also 
the DVD authoring app, while perhaps not the equal of DVD Pro, is 
certainly flexible and at least as good as iDVD. And it lets you use any 
DVD burner you like, unlike Apple's iDVD.

For anyone who just wants to move a ton of old analog video to DVDs I 
think it's hard to beat.

hth,

Dan K


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Re: VHS to DVD

[Thomas Ethen]

Toast 6 does a direct DVD burn if you just want a straight through copy
without any editing, but you still need to convert the analog signal to
digital.

Tom
> In my somewhat limited knowledge in this, you will need a DV bridge to
> connect your VCR to your Titanium because as far as I know, there are no VCR
> with FireWire output. Then, you will have to use something like iMovie to
> put the raw footage coming from the VCR and finally, iDVD to create a
> professionally looking DVD. I'm not sure if Toast can do that or not. Once
> you mastered your DVD, I'm pretty sure you can make copies using Toast, but
> I'm not sure you can author DVD with it.
> 
> -Laurent.


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Re: VHS to DVD

[Brian Scott Oplinger]

on 03/01/04 03:31, supershanefx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access
 to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my
 titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a
 regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also).
In my somewhat limited knowledge in this, you will need a DV bridge to
connect your VCR to your Titanium because as far as I know, there are no VCR
with FireWire output. Then, you will have to use something like iMovie to
put the raw footage coming from the VCR and finally, iDVD to create a
professionally looking DVD. I'm not sure if Toast can do that or not. Once
you mastered your DVD, I'm pretty sure you can make copies using Toast, but
I'm not sure you can author DVD with it.
Toast 6 supposedly has some DVD authoring features in it, I wouldn't 
know as I'm still on version 5 which is good enough for me.

I bought a used Digital 8 camcorder as my DV bridge, it doubles as a 
D-8 VCR when I want to record something new. iMovie is a decent if 
limited package for editing your movies and iDVD will author some 
pretty fancy DVDs for you. iDVD prefers to make hour long DVDs but 
can be convinced to make 90 minute ones at lower quality, but that'd 
still be higher quality than your VHS source, so don't worry about 
the quality issue when making DVDs from your tapes. The problem with 
this solution is that iDVD won't run on a machine that doesn't have 
an internal DVD drive from Apple (or an OEM Pioneer or whatever OEM 
Apple's using now) that looks like an Apple drive to iDVD. What that 
means to you as a pb user is your SOL with your TiBook unless you 
have one with a superdrive in it. And before you ask, there's no good 
reason for Apple to require an internal drive other than getting you 
to buy a new computer equipped with one.

I also bought the ADS USB instant DVD for Macintosh product. It has 
an external hardware MPEG-1 and 2 encoder that feeds the encoded MPG 
via USB. I get very nice results on my TiBook with this product and 
they include a DVD authoring tool. It isn't in the same league as 
iDVD but makes acceptable DVDs, if you download the latest version of 
the software directly from the Japanese site of the software company 
as the included 1.03 version that ADS packages is very limited. You 
can see my comments and other peoples at the xlr8yourmac site, direct 
URL to review: 
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/Pixela_PixeDV_CaptyDVD.html

Brian

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Re: VHS to DVD

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 03/01/04 03:31, supershanefx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access
> to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my
> titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a
> regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also).

In my somewhat limited knowledge in this, you will need a DV bridge to
connect your VCR to your Titanium because as far as I know, there are no VCR
with FireWire output. Then, you will have to use something like iMovie to
put the raw footage coming from the VCR and finally, iDVD to create a
professionally looking DVD. I'm not sure if Toast can do that or not. Once
you mastered your DVD, I'm pretty sure you can make copies using Toast, but
I'm not sure you can author DVD with it.

-Laurent.
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VHS to DVD

[supershanefx]

So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access
to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my
titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a
regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also).

Thanks.


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