Posted by Bob on 08/29/05 19:52

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:51:13 -0700, "Zooman" <zooman@inreach.com>
wrote:

>Might any of you geniuses know of a gadget or technique that would allow
>this mom to save her precious children's activities recorded when they were
>infants to the more permanent DVD format. I realize that this is going from
>analog to digital status but there must be a gadget or technique to do this.
>The tapes are starting to show wear and I want to save these unique home
>recordings. Thanks, Susie PS. If the Zooman makes comments in this forum,
>ignore him -- he is just my husband! Yuk, yuk.

Your DVD Recorder should have composite video/audio inputs, sometimes
called LINE inputs. You can connect those to your VCR "Line Outputs".
The manuals for the DVD Recorder and VCR will explain how.

After setting your DVD Recorder to the channel associated with the
inputs, usually "Line 1" or "Line 2" on the TV channel selector, you
play the VCR tapes and record them on the DVD. That gets the content
off the VHS tapes and onto DVDs.

Then take the DVDs to your computer where you have a DVD burner
installed (NEC 3540 highly recommended). Rip the content of the DVDs
to hard disk (DVD Decrypter recommended). Now your content is in the
form of ISO files on your computer's hard disk which you can burn
directly onto DVDs.

If all you want is to copy the content to DVDs for storage or
distribution, you can use DVD Shrink, which will compress the content
if it exceeds the size of one DVD disk.

If you want to edit the content, you will have to get a video editor
but be forewarned that video editing is a long drawn out process that
consumes a lot of time.

DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink are free.

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