Posted by Fred on 08/29/05 21:14

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> 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.

Susie doesn't have a DVD Recorder and is asking for suggestions on copying
VHS tapes to DVD's and not how to use something she doesn't yet have.

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