VHS tapes to dvd

[MeekloBraca]

Im looking at taking the stuff I have on my VHS tapes and burning it to DVD. The programs are about 2.5-3.5 hours long. What would be the best way,the best equipment, and the best burning hardware/media to use for this? Thank You!

[steveryan]

There is no best, end of. What I think is the best other people will think is crap, it's all about opinions I go from VHS to DVD with this equipment and software and get good results -

JVC HR-S7600EK S-VHS
Hauppauge Win-PVR 250
Pioneer 109
TMPGEnc DVD Author
Videoredo
Recordnow Max

[lordsmurf]

There is no best, end of. What I think is the best other people will think is crap, it's all about opinions I go from VHS to DVD with this equipment and software and get good results -

JVC HR-S7600EK S-VHS
Hauppauge Win-PVR 250
Pioneer 109
TMPGEnc DVD Author
Videoredo
Recordnow Max

That's a nice setup.

[steveryan]

Thanks, it's about to be bolstered by a colour corrector that I bought from an Ebay seller for £3

[reboot]

Sony SVO-2100 S-VHS VCR.
Hauppauge PVR-500.
PVAStrumento demux.
Cuttermaran editor (rarely needed for VHS transfers)
DVDLab Pro
Nero

[Epicurus8a]

Sony SLV-975HF VHS
Data Video 1000 TBC
Pioneer 420H DVD Recorder
Then rip to my computer HDD (with DVD Decrypter)
Edit, if necessary, with Womble MPEG Video Wizard
Re-Author with Ulead DVD Workshop 2 or TDA
Burn with DVD Decrypter

[snafu099]

In my opinion the critical choice is the capture device. Without a quality capture all else becomes garbage.

I use the ADS usb InstantDvd 2.0 and bundled Ulead software.
It has very high quality capture from any analog source. No audio sync problems unless you defeat some default settings. Ignores MV and other types of protection, if you can play it, you can capture it. It does not have a tuner and pvr but otherwise provides excellent captures

[QuaiBoy]

Sony SLV-440 (old, but stable)
ATI TV Wonder USB2
The ATI utilities have color correction and all the other cleanup I need. Cheap and sweet, plus I can move it to my laptop when I want.

-Evan-

[Mister Flonk-Flonk]

Lately I've been experimenting using a DVD recorder in HQ mode to transfer a few football games from VHS to DVD. I use one DVD per quarter then I rip all 4 DVDs to my hard drive and edit the commercials out with MPEG-VCR. Then I author them with DVD Lab Pro. After that I have a title set but it's too big for a DVD-5 so I use DVD Rebuilder with CCE 2.5 and re-encode it to make it fit, then I use ImgTools Classic & DVDDectypter to burn them to DVD. They look pretty good to me, but then so does using the SP & EP modes on the recorder. I'm just bored and experimenting, mostly tho