Re: VHS tapes and DVDs

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"Chrono1st" <Chrono1st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wow, thank you so much everyone for the replies. This is exactly the help
I
wanted.
The VHS tapes I want to copy are very important, as I'm doing it as a
favor
for a friend, as well as for myself. So, I'll probably go with the
higher-quality equipment (but none of that crazy super-expensive
pro-stuff!).
So, for tuner cards, this Hauppauge 150 is pretty good? I guess I'll
purchase that one. Also, I really like the sound of these "dual-layer"
DVDs,
so I'll look for a DVD burner that can do dual-layer, and then also
purchase
the appropriate DVDs. I'm assuming there's no difference in quality (AKA,
maybe less quality because it is cramming more data onto the DVD)?
Finally,
I think I'll probably have to buy another hard drive, since mine only has
about 40Gb of space free. Oh, you mentioned a Video ReDo Plus for editing
commercials, so maybe I'll go with that one, too...

You can download Video ReDo so do that and try it for a few weeks first.

I guess first of all I'll need to find a good piece of hardware for
putting
the VHS tapes onto my computer. Aaaaaa, so many steps.
I looked around on Google and found so many options, but I have no idea
which companies are considered good, which products are high-quality, etc.
Eric Blaines mentioned a combined DVD recorder and VHS tape player is
good.

It's good, but it would only put them on DVD, not your computer. If you
wanted to further edit, you'd need to rip the DVD then edit those files. I
have a standalone DVD recorder I use to convert my kids videos to DVD,
because it's easier and I don't need to edit them.

I guess anything that will put the videos onto my computer 100% is okay,
right? Since once they are on my computer I can fiddle around with them
all
I want. Will pretty much any hardware that puts VHS onto the computer put
100% of the data on? If there are important differences, please tell me.

It'll depend on the quality of the tape, the recording, the playback deck
(i.e., is its head clean?), the cables from the VHS deck to the
recorder/tuner, any number of things.



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