I'm Technically Challenged and Need Help!

[JustAnotherUserName]

I always play the "Day You Were Born" video for my kids on their birthday, which is tomorrow (their 14th), and we laugh about what screamers they were, how unrecognizable I was, and we all go "Awwwwwwww" when the scenes of 4-yr old Eric holding them and expertly feeding them a bottle and/or locating the pacifier flash on the screen.

Yes, I had them when I was 12 :-)

It's on one of those full-size VHS cassettes and I keep a VCR solely for the purpose of watching this annual video.

How can I get it this to my computer? Can I somehow get it to my video camera, THEN to my computer? Short of setting up the camera to tape the video as it is playing, I don't know how to accomplish this.

I know I can pay the guy down in the valley to do it for $20, but with all the cables and equipment I have laying around here, certainly there is SOME way I can accomplish this myself!!

[Chig]

Ion makes a vcr2pc which is a VCR that plugs into the USB port.... The software is so so... If it did what it advertized it would be phenominal... but on the laptop at my mothers I hooked it up and I give the software a c +. I find it works well if you use their software to capture into mpg files and then the AVS stuff to make the DVDs.

[Chig]

Uh ignore MOTC if you don't want the extra step of losing resolution. Actually that is a cheaper way to go, but does risk dropping resolution. If your VCR has an S-video cable as does your camera go with that over the RCA cable for the video.

[JustDee]

uh..ignore them both and pay the guy the $20, it is well worth the price.

[JustAnotherUserName]

Dee...lol!

Thanks so much, gentlemen...I'll try the cable thing tonight!! I have boxes and boxes of VHS video tapes just begging to be edited...! We were totally the geeks in the early 90s that carted around a kid on one shoulder and a monster video camera on the other!

[NatureJunkie]

Ruth, a friend of mind described this process to me the same way MOTC did. If you do this yourself and figure it out, would you please make a how-to video about it? I have a handful of VHS tapes I'd like to do this with. Twenty bucks a pop for DVD conversion is reasonable, unless you've got five!

[Chig]

Uh just ignore master of the control because he is an ignorant slut. I mean look what you can get out of analog (which I would think he would like as it shares the first 4 letters with is condition):
look here

instead of this old original copy that could have been overlooked as just an analog recording:


Find more videos like this on chiggy

Oops you were not supposed to see that. Oh great, now I have to go underground again before they send the CIA assassins.