Posted by Anthona Susa on 12/05/05 08:13

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?

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