Journal iowaporter's Journal: VHS to DVD
My latest project is to convert some old VHS tapes to DVD. I don't have many, but I don't want to rebuy them. I have a KWorld TV Tuner through which I can connect a VCR. On the DVD end, I have a Lacie DVD writer that I got for Christmas.
My first huge hurdle was to capture the VHS movie to the computer. I would love to have been able to do a direct burn from capture device to the DVD writer. The writer came with some Roxio software with this feature, but it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't like the way the video is captured. I'm guessing that it must capture in a way that will move straight to DVD without a lot of compressing or recoding.
I realize that I must copy to Hard Drive and then to DVD. The first problem is to figure out what format to use for the capture. AVI, WMV, MPEG? I tried several with lots of options. The bottom line is that any way I try to capture, I end up with audio and video out of sync by the end of the movie. None of the software I have (PVR that came with the capture device, Windows Movie Maker, Final Burner, Roxio) will manage audio/video syncing. So, I found a free program on the Net, VirtualDub, that will keep them in sync. This program seems to only capture in AVI. So, the choice is made. I will capture in AVI.
Now, I have to recode the file into MPEG so that I can burn it to DVD.
Windows Movie Maker won't burn a movie to DVD.
Roxio is broken without downgrading IE to version 6 (according to Roxio's website).
Final Burner doesn't give me any control over the size of the video, and it seems to wind up too big for a single DVD.
PVR Plus which comes with the Kworld capture card seems to have enough options to tweak the size. The problem is that there is no estimate for file size, so I have to use trial and error (at 3 hours a pop).
So, I am trying an encode at the moment. Then, I will try a burn. Fingers crossed.
My first huge hurdle was to capture the VHS movie to the computer. I would love to have been able to do a direct burn from capture device to the DVD writer. The writer came with some Roxio software with this feature, but it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't like the way the video is captured. I'm guessing that it must capture in a way that will move straight to DVD without a lot of compressing or recoding.
I realize that I must copy to Hard Drive and then to DVD. The first problem is to figure out what format to use for the capture. AVI, WMV, MPEG? I tried several with lots of options. The bottom line is that any way I try to capture, I end up with audio and video out of sync by the end of the movie. None of the software I have (PVR that came with the capture device, Windows Movie Maker, Final Burner, Roxio) will manage audio/video syncing. So, I found a free program on the Net, VirtualDub, that will keep them in sync. This program seems to only capture in AVI. So, the choice is made. I will capture in AVI.
Now, I have to recode the file into MPEG so that I can burn it to DVD.
Windows Movie Maker won't burn a movie to DVD.
Roxio is broken without downgrading IE to version 6 (according to Roxio's website).
Final Burner doesn't give me any control over the size of the video, and it seems to wind up too big for a single DVD.
PVR Plus which comes with the Kworld capture card seems to have enough options to tweak the size. The problem is that there is no estimate for file size, so I have to use trial and error (at 3 hours a pop).
So, I am trying an encode at the moment. Then, I will try a burn. Fingers crossed.
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