Posted by kashe on 12/06/05 03:41

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:13:19 GMT, Anthona Susa
<susa.anth...@neosporum.com> wrote:

>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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