Video Capture Advice

[Windu]

Hi,
I am new to the forums and I am looking for some advice. I coach high school football, and unfortunately some of the game tapes we get are vhs tapes. Also, our coach who takes care of scouting other teams is very old school and has nothing but mini-dv camcorders and hands out vhs tapes. Other coaches have said they would rather have dvd's instead of vhs tapes.

On the other hand, I have some movies and some tv shows that are on vhs that I would like to get onto dvd as well. I just got into burning dvd's off a digital camcorder that we sent out for scouting. I bought a new cd/dvd burner for this task.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151173

I have decided to go with a usb or fire wire connected converter. I have a friend who uses a cheep converter from roxio.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/easy-vhs-to-dvd/standard/requirements.html

He says it works fine. I think I might want something a bit better quality than that. Unfortunately I am on somewhat of a budget and do not know much about these converters. I have been reading the comments about the canoups converters and they sound like one of the better one’s out there. The 110 looks to be very nice but I do not think I will need the bi-directional conversion. So would the 55 be a good substitute? Would I be happy with it, or do I need to bite the bullet and spend the extra money? Or is there another converter, (maybe that roxio?), that someone could recommend.

I also hear a lot of talk about tbc. Is the dimax grex or the red pro what we are talking about? At what point would it be needed?

Will nero 7 work for capture?

Thanks for your time.

[minidv2dvd]

get the minidv tapes and use a minidv camcorder to transfer the tape to the computer over a firewire(ieee1394/ilink) connection. no loss of video quality that way. going from digital cam to vhs to computer to dvd is ridiculous. once you transfer the cam tapes it's fairly easy to edit and make dvds.

you have got to be in texas, no where else in the world would high school f.b. go to such trouble.

[jagabo]

A stand alone DVD recorder is your best bet if you don't have access to the DV tapes.

[minidv2dvd]

oh and sorry i missed your first post, welcome to the forum!

[Windu]

Nope, not in Texas, I'm in Iowa.
The guy that takes care of the scouting does not hand out the dv tapes, just vhs tapes that he makes. I never thought of connecting the camcorder right to my computer. Most of the camcorders he has are pretty old though.

We have an end zone cam on our scoreboard and those are recorded to vhs. Those are the tapes that I want to put onto dvd. Also I have some home made movies and some store bought movies that I would like to put onto dvd as well. I thought about a dvd recorder at first, but I like the flexibility of capturing it on my computer and the editing that I will able to do.

Thanks for the welcome.

[Windu]

No other thoughts on this? Recommendations?

[freebird73717]

The OP's tapes are from camcorders. Not commercial.
Me thinks Foxy is a spammer.

edit-
and it looks like foxy just got deleted!