Copy vcr tapes to cd's (equip req)

[geno52]

Im a newbie for sure,, I would like to put some of my old vcr tapes on cd's. I have a Sony VCR SLV-N71 (which has RCA input & output jacks, along with coax in and out) I have a Dell 4100, 1gHZ, 256 ram, windows me, sound blaster LIVE sound card, on Road Runner, Plextor cd burner 40x, cd-rom standard. Now with that info, can anyone tell me some info on putting internal cards on the Dell to capture from VCR, TV and etc. to the hard drive and then to burn on cds. Oh also I have two (2) 1.1 USB ports. I dont need anything fancy, just a standard unit to do this. I have no problem with spending up to $150 or so if need be. I have looked at the capture cards on this site and kinda lost with all that tech info. With only RCA jacks on my VCR does that limit me to the manf. of cards and all that type info.

[Tolwyn]

OPINION:

Hardware:
Canopus ADVC-100 $200?

FireWire Card $50
Unless your computer supports FireWire already.

Possibly another EIDE HD @ 60+GB, 7200+rpm


Software (search this site):

Virtualdub 1.5.9
TMPGEnc (Current Version)
GoldWave audio editor
Panasonic DV Codec or
Canopus DV Codec
Nero or other CD Burning Software

[Cole]

I think that running Window ME to capture video you will only be able to get an AVI file to the max size of 4gb (about 17 minutes) as this is the biggest file size that a FAT32 formatted drive can take.

I use the Canopus ADVC-50 running on XP and one hour of dv video takes up about 13gb of hard drive space.

Two options:

Upgrade to Win 2000 or XP with the drives formatted to NTFS and go with the Canopus ADVC-100 or the ADVC-50 pci card and a firewire. A free capture program is on Windows Movie Maker to start you off is on XP. Or look at the tools section - DVAPP is quite good.

or

(Dare I say) look at one of the Dazzle products which records straight to MPEG thus a much smaller file size, but not as good quality, but will work on Win ME.

Hope this is of some help.

[overloaded_ide]

First if by old vcr tapes you are reffering to comercail tapes, you will need to buy something to bypass the macrovsion most likely. Not aproblem if you mean your own works on vcr tapes though.

Rca jacks are fine, I think most devices use those although some can use s-vhs also.

I would probably think towards a ATI AIW card. That's what I use currantly and am happy.