VHS to DVD/MPEG card & editing software recommendations.

[reynolds]

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I've got this : www.kelkoo.co.uk/sitesear...+MAKER&orw

Just plug it into a scart socket and you're away!

[fiddleabout]

Re: re

I see it gets some rave reviews ..

www.sitescrape.com/AM/ele...eview.html

... and I can only see any mention of NTSC video - no mention of PAL (which is what you'll get out of a UK TV)

Still I suppose you know what you're doing.

[zeitghost]

Re: re

Oh dear.

Standards converter required: £200...

[fiddleabout]

Re: re

Actually after I posted I checked another couple of links and they did mention PAL - most links were to non-uk sites and obviously there is no guarantee just which version will arrive.

To be honest I doubt that any £30 device is going to make a very good job of MPEG encoding from composite/svhs input - if it does, the software works, and the PAL issue is not an issue at all he's found a bargain. If not....

[zeitghost]

Re: re

I'd have thought that for £30 you end up with a video to api file converter, with mpeg done with software.

Over night probably.

But then again what do I know, praps these days you just throw a billion transistors at it, build in China and still have change from a tenner.

[reynolds]

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It does tend to jitter a bit at high quality and high resolution (720x568) .

Apart from that, I've got an excellent piece of kit for the price here. One of the best things about it is you can carry it about with you and plug it wherever. You can also set up a timer - so you can record TV when you're away. I can also use JMF studio with it - so I can make quicktime movs instead of mpgs/avis which are the default for the bundled software.

[RobAnt]

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I use Pinnacle Studio 9 to make DVDs with titles and menus and whatnot (even has a nifty music doo dah, which tailors the length of the music to the length of the video clip - and you can buy loads of add-on music of all genre's for it).

I use a digital camcorder (canon M600i), which has an analogue input, so can play my VHS tapes through that . Using firewire (ieee1394) I simply use the camcorder as the capture device. You don't have to transfer to another tape first.

Get a nice big, fast, hard drive & DVD+/-RW drive and you're away.

I photo & videograph airshows mainly:-

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