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barry

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I have drawn the short straw at school and have to transfer a lot of video pal cassettes to cd
Can any body recomend the best way to do this and the best equipment to do it.
Thanking all replyies for there efforts
Barrybear
 
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shadoe_phantom

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Method 1:
I recommend you get a video capture card and hook up your VCR to it & transfer files to either VCD, SVCD, DVD, DivX or whatever your preference.
Depending on what format you want to use, you will need different software & hardware.
-Recommend AverMedia or Aveosis capture cards.
-Software that comes with them or VirtualDub, PowerVCR, few others to capture.
-CDRW, DVD-R/+R drive to burn them to CD/DVD
-software for burning (your choice but the forum discusses a few)

Method 2:
If these Tapes of yours can be played back by a Camcorder that allows for USB/Firewire or other hook-ups with software to transfer you videos to the PC. Sony allows for hi-fi8 tapes & DV. I don't know if you can find one for your type of tapes.

I think those are the best methods/choices you have.
If you have questions or whatever, just go ahead & post.
Myself (whenever I have time) or someone else will try to answer you posts & hopefully get you started on the right track.

Good luck
 
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LTR12101B

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The other important point, is the target PLAYER!

If PC, then you have a wide choice of encodings, including Windowsmedia, Real, DivX, AVI (and a wide choice of AVI codecs), and finally MPEG.

If the target is to play on a DVD player, then you need to know if it will play CD-R (and if not, if it will play CD-RW media, though not ideal) and if it will play VCD and/or SVCD format - that limits your final encoding to what it will accept.


IF PC-based Windowsmedia is acceptable, you can't get much easier/cheaper than MSDVR2000
http://www.maksil.com/ (the price - FREE)

Requires a TV card with WDM capture drivers - they mantion the Avermedia and Hauppage cards
 
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