Converting 8mm video tapes into DVDs...?
Some the the major drug store chains - Walgreens, Rite Aid - offer video to DVD conversion services. Check with the photo finishing counter. Also try Ritz/Wolf Cameras. Or if you want to do it yourself, here's a helpful guide. http://www.digitalvideoclub.com/basics/t...
Full dv quality vs MJPEG in vhs to digital conversion?
Recently I thought of the idea of buying myself a dazzle, hooking it up to my dvd/vhs combo and to my computer. and charging friends and family to convert tehir old vhs tapes into dvds. Im using pinnacle studio 12 to import the video footage onto my computer but im kind of worried about quality. It gives me 3 options for AVI. MJPEG GOOD, MJPEG BETTER, OR FULL DV QUALITY. I wanted to do it in full dv quality to try to preserve the footage better but when i finished a 40 minute tape the file toop up 9 gigs which is way too much for a single layer DVD. here are my questions, please answer as many as you can thank you: 1. If i decide to do it in MJPEG BETTER, how much quality will i lose? 2. How about MjPEG GOOD? 3. Anything i can do to the video in DV FULL QUALITY to make it small enough to fit in a DVD? 4. How about MPEG 2? I heard that its bad quality but im not sure, some of the videos im converting are wedding videos so i want good enough quality. Thanks.
Can i convert an 8mm tape into a dvd at a rite-aid, walgreens, etc.?
Yes they collect tapes for video transfers, but they send it out to another place for the actual transfer. Your best option is to get a video capture card to conver tthe analog 8mm tape to digital and do the transfer on your own computer. This will give you the fastest turn around but is sort of a pain to do. A fast turn around video transfer service is StashSpace.Com, usually 3-5 bussiness days.
Home Video: What is the best way to convert 8mm tape to dvd?
Well, the best and easiest way to convert 8mm or 16mm tapes is to use a DVD burner.Because a DVD burner comes up ready with all those features and functionalities that are required to convert your tapes.So when you use a DVD burner, you yourself have to do absolutely nothing.Everything will be taken care by that handy tool. You just have to help it out by dragging and dropping the 8mm tapes that you want to be converted.Simple.So go for a DVD burner. I myself use DVD Creator to convert my 8mm films into DVD.And it takes me only a few minutes of drag and dropping task.You know, I just open up the DVD Creator and press the “Create a DVD Video Disc” option to get started.And then I just drag and drop the 8mm tapes from my computer.I use a regular USB cable to connect my camcorder to my PC. And thus I access all my 8mm films which I simply import to the DVD Creator.DVD Creator also has an in-built Video Editor tool which allows to brush up those decade old 8mm films to make them more appealing and customized.And I usually love to use it to add some texts to my 8mm films. But you can change the effects, watermark, title, music and almost anything you want.The editing tool is super easy to use, so you will have no problem to add some Awesomeness to your 8mm films.And finally, to finish and convert the 8mm films into DVD, I just select and press the “Burn” option from the top right side.DVD Creator converts my 8mm tapes and provides me with a professional and highly quality DVD.So you can also use DVD Creator to burn your 8mm or 16mm tapes to DVD. It’s absolutely easy and hassle free.Hope this helpsCheers…
How can I convert my Disney VHS tapes to DVDs?
Disney commercial tapes were always copy-protected, usually with Macrovision, so a direct copy would "work" but be full of wavy lines and sudden color shifts designed to make them unpleasant to try to watch. There were "black boxes" available that would strip the Macrovision signal and allow copying. but this doesn't help for any commercial copy centers, they won't violate Disney's copyright (Disney's just a bit litigious).You could potentially do it yourself (assuming you acquired a macrovision stripping device) by copying to a standalone DVD recorder or importing it as a video file onto your computer,which you could then convert to MP4 and burn to your computer's DVD burner using Nero or Toast or many other burning programs.BUT, you'd still just have a VHS quality probably full frame copy of your tape. It's really not that expensive just to buy the DVD or even better, the Blu-Ray of your favorite Disney films. The quality difference in the transfers is pretty amazing compared to the VHS days. They're probably all available used as well. So unless this is a great rarity you're trying to archive because there's no other way to watch it, it's probably more trouble than it's worth. The current Disney discs have their own new and "improved" copy protection schemes, so you wouldn't be getting a free pass on duplicating them (although there are scads of free or cheap DVD copy programs around that use your PC DVD drive, though none for Blu-Ray that I've seen).
How do I make a professional looking DVD from video files?
Adobe Encore is still available, and the program I have the most experience with, so that's what I would recommend. It has sophisticated menu creation, editing, and even has a subtitle tool built in. You also get access to all the other tools nessicary to create the menus and motion graphics for the DVD (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.) via Creative Cloud. The downside is that it is no longer being developed, so you have to download the CS6 version of Premiere Pro in Adobe Creative Cloud, then choose to uninstall all the components of Premiere Pro CS6 except for Encore CS6.Here's more compete instructions:http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb...Here's the Adobe help page on creating subtitles in Encore:http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/us...And here's the one for creating/editing menus:http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/to...
My mom has a bunch of family videos originally recorded on VHS that we now want to turn digital. How do I safely rip these without damaging the VHS tapes? There is only 1 copy!
Buy a good VHS machine, actually not a VHS machine but a refurbished SVHS machine will be better because it will have been better built and have better electronics for both a more reliable capture and nicer picture.SVHS was a semi-professional format (backwards compatible with VHS) and the machines were more expensive but these days you can find them quite cheaply. I might buy one on eBay but I have seen some retailers selling them as refurbished, which would give you extra piece of mind. You can then use a VHS cleaning tape to ensure its clean and playback a tape which you know is good but not valuable to ensure it works well (e.g. buy an unused, pre-recorded movie tape cheaply from somewhere).Get a capture device for your computer, here it can get very debatable about what hardware to use. Firstly, make sure you get a SVHS machine that as at least S-Video output and preferably ‘SCART’ or ‘component’ as well. If you can get one with component or SCART then I hear very good things about this adapter which converts to HDMI:ELEPHAS SCART + HDMI to HDMI Converter Amazon.co.uk: ElectronicsThen I would use that with an AGPTEK USB 3.0 HDMI HD Video Capture Card.Other people would probably suggest a £25 S-Video USB capture device and that would probably be easier than the £95 solution I have put above, but my solution will probably clean up the video to the best quality it can be before being captured. The quality of the capture of a £25 device might not be as advanced.ClimaxDigital VCAP800 VHS & Camcorder USB Video Capture Kit Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
What is the best software to burn my family videos to DVD?
There are some burning software programs with some brief introduction for your reference:BurnIt’s able to burn files like data, audio, video and more. Just by diving into 4 modes: Data, Audio, Video and Copy, you can burn data DVD for backup purpose and burn playable CD/DVD without any hassle.Leawo DVD CreatorLeawo DVD Creator for Mac can burn almost all kinds of video files like MP4, MKV, WMV, AVI, VOB, BDMV and so on to a DVD disc. It allows you to make a DVD menu before burning to a disc and provides a built-in video editing module for you to do something edits to your video.Disk BurnerIt enables you to create, organize, share and store all of your digital contents to CDs and DVDs. Disc Burner not only lets you burn your music, photos, videos, and data to DVD but also pays much attention to the data security.DiscoDisco was at once charged for $19.95. The good news for everyone is the program could be obtained for totally free, but the bad news is the program has stopped for updating from July 2011. The program comes with quite simple user interface, letting you burn playable CD/DVD by dragging and dropping files to the program.BurnXThis is a very simple tool for green hands. BurnX Free is a light software that needs less storage than many programs in the category Utilities.
Converting SR90 tapes to DVD?
Places like Walmart, Walgreen's, etc., now offer movie-to-DVD transfer. Also check with your local camera shops as well. There are services on the web that you can mail them your tapes but I would feel better hand-delivering my tapes to a well known company, than mailing them off to some website. To do the transfer yourself would require a working camera (or tape deck) and special cabling and converter (analog video to digital), which may be more trouble and expense than just having the job done for you. BTW, when you order your tapes to be transferred to DVDs, also order the videos as .avi or .wmv files on a CD-ROM so that you can edit them later if you want. Although you may be able to rip the video files from the DVDs using Ripping software, it may not always work.