Conversion of VHS to DVD

[avz10]

I need some advice please.

I would like to know how I can convert my VHS videos to DVD. I have a WinFast TV 2000 XP Card and have used the Intervideo Win DVD Creator to convert my cassettes to DVD, but the results are not that great. I have used AV cables to connect the video player with the TV Card.

I have recently bought a Panasonic DV camcorder (NV GS 250) and use MOTION DV Studio to capture dv, encode with TMPGEnc to MPEG2 and then DVD Author GUI to author. I am quite pleased with the results. I also have WinDV for capturing.

What I therefore need is a programme to convert the analog videos to digital and then I suppose I can continue to encode with TMPGEnc?

Any advice will be useful

[mikiem]

You might be able to connect the output of your VCR to your camera, then basically as you're doing now with DV footage. This uses the camera's electronics as AD convertor rather then your TV card, but you'll not get the quality of orig DV -- VHS just doesn't store that kind of resolution.

[avz10]

Thanks, I will try that

[avz10]

No luck. I have connected the AV cables to the camcoder, but it does not pick up the signal. I have tried different settings on the camera. That brings me back to my original question, Is there a programme to capture analog video, and then convert to avi?

Thanks

[FulciLives]

Some digital camcorders support analog-to-digital passthrough which means you can connect analog video to the camcorder's input and it gets internally converted to Digital Video and then goes to the computer, in digital form, via the FireWire connection.

But not all camcorder's support that feature.

So if you are to use your WinFast TV 2000 capture card you need a good capture program. Here are some choices (in no particular order):

1.) VirtualVCR
2.) iuVCR
3.) TheFlyDS

Those seem to be the most popular.

The doom9 website has a great guide on analog capture using the type of capture card that you have.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
These programs, with your capture card, will capture to AVI format. The two most popular AVI codecs for capture are HuffyUV and PICVideo MJPEG