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If you have tons of home video tapes of children and other family events in the old VHS format you most likely already understand that even if those tapes lasted forever - and they don't - you soon may not have a working device to play them on.
Do you even still have a working VCR that's linked up to your TV for convenient viewing?
If you do, don't count on it for much longer. We have seen tons of older devices like cassette tape decks and video cassette recorders go unused on the entertainment centre for one or two years and then with no warning refuse to operate in the right way.
The solution, of course, is to convert VHS tapes to DVD or alternatively digitise those VHS and VHS-C home videos.
Once those analog tapes have been converted to digital format, you can make multiple DVD's for backup purposes, store on a big external disk drive or possibly upload to cloud storage.
The first thing you're going to need is a working video cassette recorder with RCA output jacks which most have.
Then you need a device to capture that analog video signal and digitise it. There are USB devices on the market for this but we have had better success and so suggest a firewire device.
Next you have to have a reasonably strong computer with acceptable drive space or an external drive attached, a firewire port and a suitable firewire cable to connect the digitizer to.
To capture the video on your PC we usually recommend Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 7 or the older equivalent on Windows XP.
For editing and manufacturing to DVD, though, we actually like an inexpensive software package that does a remarkable job and gives you unlimited control over the whole process in addition to unlimited options for adding special effects.
We store the recently converted VHS tape digitised info on our home NAS, backup the information to cloud storage and burn as many DVDs as we like. Regularly we will take newly burned DVD copies to the bank for storage in a safety box.
Do you even still have a working VCR that's linked up to your TV for convenient viewing?
If you do, don't count on it for much longer. We have seen tons of older devices like cassette tape decks and video cassette recorders go unused on the entertainment centre for one or two years and then with no warning refuse to operate in the right way.
The solution, of course, is to convert VHS tapes to DVD or alternatively digitise those VHS and VHS-C home videos.
Once those analog tapes have been converted to digital format, you can make multiple DVD's for backup purposes, store on a big external disk drive or possibly upload to cloud storage.
The first thing you're going to need is a working video cassette recorder with RCA output jacks which most have.
Then you need a device to capture that analog video signal and digitise it. There are USB devices on the market for this but we have had better success and so suggest a firewire device.
Next you have to have a reasonably strong computer with acceptable drive space or an external drive attached, a firewire port and a suitable firewire cable to connect the digitizer to.
To capture the video on your PC we usually recommend Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 7 or the older equivalent on Windows XP.
For editing and manufacturing to DVD, though, we actually like an inexpensive software package that does a remarkable job and gives you unlimited control over the whole process in addition to unlimited options for adding special effects.
We store the recently converted VHS tape digitised info on our home NAS, backup the information to cloud storage and burn as many DVDs as we like. Regularly we will take newly burned DVD copies to the bank for storage in a safety box.
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