VHS To PC

[iamloco724]

i would like to transfer my vhs collection to my pc..what are all the best ways of going about doing this to get the best results quality wise

 

[carnageX]

I'd say get a high-quality tuner card and hook your VCR up to your PC through that.

Does the VCR have a tuner in it, or does it just have RCA jacks?

 

[Yami]

You also get USB VHS players, they often come with recording software for making digital conversions.

 

[wafflehammer]

uhmmmm my dad had something exactly for this. connected the computer to the VHS player and it would copy the movies over. I'll e-mail him and find out what it was

 

[iamloco724]

the vcr has rca jacks..but the problem is i think i want to get a new vcr if im going to do this because the tracking on this one is garbage so besides how to do this any recommendations on a vcr i can pick up on ebay that has a good tracking and under 100 bucks

 

[Runfox]

iamloco724, I have started a similar progect, converting old family VHS tapes to DVD. I bought a video capture device from NewEgg a while back. Make sure the capture device does the digital converstion as it trasnfers the data to the computer. That is important as it takes a lot less time and work from your computer. And as you transfer you can preview, capture still images, and do some cutting.

I hook my VHS player to the device, I forget the brand, and it converts and transfers to my computer using the bundled editing sooftware. I have used other Editing software also such as Sony Vegas Studioo, but the bundled software is much easir and simpler of course. I have already converted 2 tapes to DVD with on screen menu and all. You dont need a real powerful PC , but you do need a large capacity HD for storage. And you need a fair amount of time depending on how much editing you decide to doe.