HELP/GOING FROM VHS TO DVD

[Izzie]

HAVE AIW, BUT CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET IT TO WORK, SO CHANGED TO DAZZLE 80/ USING PINNACLE STUDIO8...I CAN GET VIDEO IN BUT IT IS EITHER TO LARGE TO BURN OR WILL NOT CONVERT TO BURN TO DVD..MOST VHS'S ARE FROM T.V. SHOWS AND ONLY 30 TO 60 LONG....AM USING REGULAR RCA HOOKUPS, CANNOT FIND VHS WITH S VIDEO OR FIREWIRE AND DON'T HAVE FIREWIRE CARD AT ALL, DON'T WANT TO SPEND A FORTUNE, JUST WANT TO GET MY T.V. SHOWS ONTO DVD'S SO I CAN DISPOSE OF THE TAPES.....

[spiderman2k1]

Your driver might be wrong ATI AIW 32meg card's and up are good for VHS. Dazzle might have lip sync problem's try this site for help

http://www.lordsmurf.com/

[hudsonf]

The ATI AIW cards are great at capturing. If you tell us what is giving you trouble maybe we can help you get it working. As mentioned the lordsmurf site is a very good site to checkout. I have a AIW 8500 Radeon card using mmc8.7 with lordsmurfs settings and capture tv directly to mpeg2 with 0 frame drops and vhs tapes from 0 to xxx frame drops depending on the quality of the tape.

[Izzie]

I COULD GET A PICTURE BUT COULD NEVER GET THE SOUND INTO THE COMPUTER WITH THE ATI AIW, NOT USING IT ANYMORE, USING THE DAZZLE 80, I CAN GET IT IN BUT I CANNOT GET IT TO CONVERT TO BURN ON A DISK EVEN THOUGH MOST OF MY TAPES ARE 30 MINUTE SHOWS, THE LONGEST IS 1 HOUR WITH ADDS REMOVED......USING PINNACLE STUDIO 8, WHICH GETS IT IN BUT WONT CONVERT OVER TO BURN, JUST SAYS ITS TO LARGE OR THE WRONG FORMAT.....

[FOO]

Read some guides at the left. Smurf's guides are good.

and please stop typing in all CAPS

[hudsonf]

Sorry to hear your not using the AIW card any more. If you still have it and want to try it again make sure it connected correctly to your sound card and that the input source is not muted. Also make sure you select the correct audio source when setting up MMC . I use MMC 8.7 to capture mpeg2, MPEG-VCR to edit and TEMPGEnc DVD Author to author and burn my dvds and get great results. I can't help you with Studio 8 because I never had much luck with it.

[Izzie]

Question for Hudson, which AIW are you using??? Is it one of the newer ones with a firewire input or the older 7500 which is what I was trying to work with, I may give it another try since you got it to work, maybe I just have to try again....

[hudsonf]

I'm using the 8500 AIW Radeon Card. I've had it for a while now so I would say it a older model. I have tried other capture cards but I always come back to my AIW card. When I purchased my new computer and switched the video card to my AIW Card that I took out of my old computer and used a older version of MMC, every time I started the TV program the sound was always muted. Since I upgraded to the 8.x versions I don't have that problem any more. The first time I installed my AIW I hooked the sound into the wrong jack on my sound card and it took me a long time before I found the problem. Maybe one of the things I had trouble with is what's causing your sound problem.