Re: Taping from VCR machine
- From: Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:05:26 -0800
Standard question: did you connect the audio cables to the computer?
If you did, then I don't know what went wrong...
On 1/20/2007, wildwyw posted this:
Hey Everyone,
First time in a discussion group. I also want to copy VCR tapes to my new computer with Windows Movie Maker, edit them, and then make DVD's to pass out to family. I have succeeded using Dazzle software but I am getting no audio. I have a new Gateway Intel duo core 2 with TV tuner, 2G DDR ram and 300G hardrive. Can anybody help me to capture the audio portion of the tapes. --
wildwyw
"James E" wrote:
I Tried that last night but it didn't work, I'll retry it , paying attention this time, maybe it'll work. I thought it should.
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James E
"xiowan" wrote:
Hi James:
I'm not a computer expert, but I was able to simply hook the vcr up to the media center computer inputs and in the media center window with live tv playing, select the output channel that is playing on the vcr before you want to record. Then select play on the vcr to send the tape to the media center and just hit record on the media center remote. My recordings are on Super VHS tapes and using S-video out and audio out to the computer, the recordings came out fine. I then recorded them to dvd disks from the media center window for storage. The only problem you would have would be they would probably show up on your media center files as whatever show was playing on channel 3 or 4 (whichever is selected on the back of the vcr.) This isn't a high tech solution, but sure is a simple one and worked fine to archive tapes to a DVD disk.
xiowan in tucson
"Barry Watzman" wrote:
If at all possible, locate a Sony Digital-8 camcorder with "pass-through" A-to-D conversion (most of the Digital-8 camcorders have this, if they will play back analog Hi-8 tapes). Setup the Digital-8 camcorder to use this (see the camcorder manual).
Connect the analog source (a VCR playing the tape to be converted) to the camcorder input (use S-Video if you have it, otherwise composite, and sound).
Connect the camcorder to the computer using a firewire port. You may have to install a driver for the camcorder onto the computer (this comes with the camcorder if it's required, it should also be downloadable (e.g. from the Sony web site)).
Do the "capture" outside of Media Center, under the Windows XP desktop using any suitable vide capture product. Examples are Pinnacle Studio, DVD Movie Factory, or any of the products by Pinnacle, MGI, Roxio, U-Lead, etc. However, you can also use Windows Movie Maker 2, which is a Microsoft free download for Windows XP and which is normally installed as part of Service Pack 2. You will be capturing to uncompressed AVI files, which are huge (about 12-14 gigabytes per hour) so have plenty of disk space. These are very generic files and almost any video editing program can work with them or burn them to a video DVD.
James E wrote:
Just got my Merdia center
I have a huge number of VCR Taps of my Grand Kids
How would I copy them onto the computer???
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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