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Posted by Martin on 12/05/05 09:20
"Anthona Susa" <susa.anth...@neosporum.com> wrote in message
news:e0vxbp5owome.121sl01lyafja.dlg@40tude.net...
> How do we output an avi file onto a VHS video tape?
>
> My fourth grader told me today (last minute) he needs to bring to school a
> VHS video tape of his verbal book report as a 60-second "commercial".
>
> I easily snapped the one-minute video from my Nikon CoolPix camera which
> saved the 18 MB AVI file onto the compact flash card. But I'm stuck at
> this
> point!
>
> I don't now how to get this AVI file onto a VHS tape from my Windows XP
> IBM
> A31p laptop. I searched this newsgroup but didn't find the question
> already
> answered by anyone.
>
> I tried playing the AVI file in Media Player Classic, version 6.4 while
> the
> firewire was hooked to a borrowed Pinnacle "movie DV" digital to analog
> converter which itself was hooked by 3 RCA cables (red, white, yellow)
> into
> the VCR input jack - but nothing was coming into the firewire PC output.
>
> I think I have all the equipment I need but I have no idea how to 'force'
> the AVI file to go out the firewire output of the IBM A31p laptop.
>
> Maybe the Pinnacle Studio 9 software disk I borrowed might help?
> Or maybe Windows MovieMaker? Or MediaPlaye? I just don't know.
>
> Can you point me in the right direction soon?
>
> What program would play the AVI file and push it out to the firewire which
> is hooked to the Pinnacle MovieDV digital to analog converter so that I
> can
> then record the one-minute AVI file onto the VHS tape via the three RCA
> jacks on the VCR?
Has your Nikon got a composite video output which can be used to connect to
a TV?
(Many digital cameras have such a connector).
If so you could easily just record straight from the Nikon to a VCR's
composite video input.
Martin.
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