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Okay, I've never tried this so this is probably a basic question for some here. Mrs. Coot bought some real estate software. The software comes on CD and the tutorial is on 4 VCR tapes...go figure. She wants me to transfer the tutorials to DVD. How do I go about this?
Violet1966
02-12-2005, 04:15 PM
There are programs and capture cards that do this. I've seen them in my tigerdirect magazines. Here's something that does it. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=580965&Sku=A03-7042
got results searching
"vcr dvd"
have to check but i think that the AIW Radeon's do it too....
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro, but it doesn't appear to have anything to take video in. I guess I'll need a capture device.
eakes
02-12-2005, 05:54 PM
I have a DVD recorder that I can do VCR to DVD directly. Mail the tapes to me and I will copy to DVD and then mail them back.
Up to 3 hrs of material can be recorded to a DVD and retain good quality video, so if the tapes are 30 minutes or so they should all fit on one DVD unless separate DVDs would be desired.
Let me know if you would like to do this.
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro, but it doesn't appear to have anything to take video in. I guess I'll need a capture device.
Radeon 9800Pro (awesome card) but not the same as AIW (All-In-Wonder) by Radeon
Pyrion
02-12-2005, 10:34 PM
If you don't have a TV tuner built into your video card you can get a PCI TV Tuner that'll fix that problem. $20 for the cheap models, usually they don't do stereo audio. It was $50 for my ATI TV Wonder PCI (the older model, but it does do stereo audio) and it records to MPEG. I could convert them for writing to DVD but I don't have a DVD writer so it's pointless -- I encode them to XviD and burn them to CD instead. :D