- #EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS HOW TO#
- #EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS FULL SIZE#
- #EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS SOFTWARE#
- #EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS PC#
- #EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS WINDOWS 7#
Similarly to Hanna above I wanted to digitize my 15 year old miniDV tapes. Also note thaat both VHS and audio cassettes were sold with pre-recorded content making them highly more popular than MiniDV which did not BTW pre-recorded audio cassettes are still being produced and sold - although a very niche market - so not obsolete yet. Both VHS and audio cassette players have analogue outputs which are easily captured - you have now purchaed a MiniDV camcorder that does not have an analogue output - you need a desktop computer and firewire card to transfer them - easy. How long have those been obsolete? Literally every other type of video tape tech has an adapter for it. In fact I recently converted some projector slides from 1968 to digital images. Cassette tapes have been obsolete for far longer than MiniDV and I just used an *adapter* to transfer that to a computer and record it to audio file. Its irrelevant that the technology has been obsolete for awhile. There is no problem transferring VHS (which is far older technology) or even old cassette tapes to digital media with simple hardware anyone can get online.
#EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS PC#
Many MiniDV cameras had AV analogue outputs (My Canon HD MiniDV camcorder does) which is easily captured t o a PC or DVD recorder. MiniDV when it was popular was easily transferred to computers that had firewire capability (and even many laptops had this) - you can still get firewire cards for desktop computers but there is insufficient demand for anyone to design and make such an adapter for laptops. Try and transfer the contents of a floppy drive to your laptop these days. Unfortunately dealing with legacy products is increasingly hard. Put simply the bandwidth of the adapters is often limited so fine detail is missing. S-VHS does not look as good as a straight digital transfer but this is not just due to using the analogue transfer but the re-encoding in the PC as well.
#EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS FULL SIZE#
Internal cards for full size PCs are still available as they connect to the PCI bus that has enough bandwidth to pass the signal to the processor or GPU for encoding. They needed to compress the video prior to squirting the signal into the laptop and this made them expensive. External Firewire capture cards that plug into USB ports were once available, but no longer.
#EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS WINDOWS 7#
DV sensibly adopted IEEE1348 (Known as Firewire) and this is still compatible with Macs to this day.įirewire is poorly supported on PCs in Windows 7 onwards and this causes the digital transfer to be tricky to get working reliably - but it can be done. In HDV, more data is assigned to the black and white signal, as that gives the clarity and resolution. The difference is the amount of data dedicated to the colour and black and white information.
#EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS HOW TO#
Must really have been a wildly unique technology that 20 years later, our smartest minds can't figure out how to transfer it to a Windows 10 laptop at home. Is the implication that MiniDV is such an alien technology that no human on earth could possibly create some sort of adapter that transmits the data to a computer quickly and easily. There are some slightly larger tapes than the MiniDV's that I have right here, and you can literally throw them into a Faux VHS tape case which is just an *adapter* and pop it into a VCR and then transmit to your computer. Hope I didn't get the wrong type.Ĭlick to expand.There is no problem transferring VHS (which is far older technology) or even old cassette tapes to digital media with simple hardware anyone can get online. The one I just got on eBay is going to be a TRV8.
I just did a Google images search and I am close to positive it was a Sony DCR TRV30. I can not remember as the camera broke at least 6 years ago. How can I get the video off of it and onto a new Windows 10 laptop?Ĥ) To answer your question: I am unsure if its HD quality original video.
#EASIEST METHOD TO CONVERT VHS TAPES TO DIGITAL VIDEOS SOFTWARE#
People in reviews claim that it should work.Ģ) What software will I need to make this work?ģ) Assuming im "wrong" about something here yet again, which I probably am, I now have a camcorder to put the tape into. Found an S-video to USB cable on Amazon and ordered it. So then I opted for the S-video approach. They even sell "4-pin firewire to USB" cables on Amazon but everyone says "Doesnt work". I then found out that its physically impossible to transfer 1394 Firewire to today's laptops because they lack the technology to receive it. It has the standard "out" ports (1395 4 pin and S-Video). First, last night I bought a MiniDV camcorder on eBay for about $60.