What is best to do with my VHS videos?

[eduardo]

Please reply if you are an expert in do this.

[Greg12]

DONT YOU DARE THINK OF USING ASF!!!!!!

Once you get the file converted to ASF, it will look like crap and you can't decode it back tto AVI.


I would make a DVD with MPEG 1 video at vcd resolution. I would then obtain a DVD-/+Rw and play with the bitrate to see what the max bit rate I could go with.


It's best to put them on DVD-R because it's the highest quality and has alot of compatibility. It might be expensive, but their backed up in good quality.

[eduardo]

U are right but I don't know why I have this thing of wanting to have all my VHS in ASF.

Oh why does no one vote in my poll vote?

[loveturtleozark]

if you are serious about archiving your old vhs footage
then consider one of those top of the line JVC svhs with built in TBC with 4MB digipure memory(fixes jitters and other ills that old tapes have) and use that to play them while using a high quality video capture card to capture from the JVC and encode to mpeg2 2 highest bitrate and burn onto dvd-r if you have the money for all that
just my opinion

[oldfart13]

If you don't have to edit in any way, get a standalone DVD-R recorder like the Panasonic E20 or E30. Easy then to transfer them to DVD in real time. Cheap disks like Vivastar work just fine with that.

[Mirror_Image]

Option #1 or #3.

After you get done with the transfers, put little hats and lab coats on the VHS tapes, grab a camcorder and film an Indie movie where the evil cassette aliens kidnap household pets and perform experimental surgery on the little buggers, turning them into terrifying cyborg killing machines that speak with voices that sound like electric guitars. The tape aliens use their evil cyborg creations to almost take over the world but are defeated in the end by a mutated version of the Powerpuff Girls that look like fat little Rosie O'Donnells, which stop to eat sides of beef on a frequent basis and go through lots of toilet paper afterwards.

That's just a rough concept, so modify as you see fit.

[Mirror_Image]

Here's a little promer on claymation, which you might find useful for constructing some of your film "characters".