Re: transfering vhs video (not digital) to computer to record on a cd
- From: "pjp" <pjpoirier_is_located@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:32:04 GMT
You need some type of "analog capture card" to convert the movie to digital.
The camcorder plays the video while connected to the capture card. You use
software to do the conversion. Note : has to be real time, can't "rip" like
music off cd's, so if it's an hr long movie, it takes an hr to digitize it..
Capture cards tend to come in two flavours,
a) stand-alone cards usually with a complete tv tuner included, and
b) TV-IN/VIVO (Video In/Out) video cards.
Either type should also have a "composite/svhs input" to directly connect
camcorder/vcr/etc. and use it's signal rather than some tv station. VIVO
cards usually only have this type of connection, lacking a tv tuner (use a
vcr instead works) and use the soundcard for audio (tv tuners use their own
inlcuded audio).
I use an older Radeon 64DDR VIVO (Radeon 7200). It works fine, especially
for video taped stuff as NTSC doesn't require high res capture as it's not
hi res in the first place, e.g. I capture to 480x480 mpg.Capturing video
demands a decent pc, the faster the better as otherwise you either have to
limit capture resolution or else you drop frames resulting in jerky
playback. Also plenty of hard disk space is a requirement.
Once you have the file captured, digitized and saved; you use whatever
software you need to edit etc. the movie (which might "limit" why you select
a specific format when capturing in the first place) before burning to
cd/dvd as a vcd/svcd/dvd.
Note 1 : so far video capturing is the one thing I find XP better at than
98SE. Solely because the NTFS file system doesn't put a limit on the size of
the captured file. Under 98SE, there's a limit to the maximum size a file
can be, hence capture software must "split" files (part 1,2,3 etc.) when
doing very long captures. Compressing the capture "on-the-fly" (to DIVX/MP3
as an example) greatly eleviates this problem (but puts strain on not
dropping frames) but caution needs to be exercised if you want to
"edit/massage" the movie to avoid degredation of the image quality, e.g.
choose "lossless" type compression if you wish to edit the capture
afterwards.
Note 2 : although I own a VIVO video card, experience suggests to me one's
better off with a stand-alone capture card. VIVO cards usually means there's
additional steps to updating your video card drivers to insure your VIVO
also continues to work. It can be a pain to get/keep it all working
properly, something avoided with stand-alone cards.
"Evie" <Evie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:70BFC338-DF05-46AE-A1EA-05C15BD43AA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Does anyone know if it possible to transfer video from my JVC video
> camera,
> (not digital) to my computer, so I can transfer it to a dvd or cd. I have
> windows xp home, but don't know if you need to know any other info. If
> so,
> let me know, and I will add it. Thanks.....
.
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