VHS to DVD

[adams901]

Anyone know of any studios in London that can transfer VHS to DVD and/or VCD?.

Thanks

 

[old.RedVenom]

You could do it yourself, but why bother - the quality is shit.

 

[adams901]

I had a couple of videos made on my last diving trip, the guy put them onto Super VHS tapes as he couldnt get them on to CD, the quality is quite good but wont stay that way if it remains on VHS. on DVD it will last longer and the quality wont decrease, if it is VCD I can store a copy on my computer and it will last forever.

As for doing it myself, I did think about it but it will probally work out more expensive once I have got the software, card and wasted 100s of CDs trying to get it right .

 

[Tom]

Adams buy a cheap digitising card, and store the VHS material on your computer. Then just write it to a DVD.

The total cost will be cheaper than what you would be charged by a professional outfit, and the results more or less identical.

 

[adams901]

But I would need to by a dvd burner as well, buying things for my computer is a bad idea, last year I went to aria to buy some memory and ended up with a motherboard, cpu, and loads of other stuff to go with it.

Guess I could always try, but to be honest the DVD burner would probally only be used once as I would have nothing else to use it for... I could always get one from argoss, use it and then return it within the 16 days

 

[nath]

4x pioneer burners are under a hundred squid now

 

[Tom]

You're talking less than £200 to do the job, you would be charged more than that by a company (I imagine you have a fair amount of footage).

 

[adams901]

probally about 80 mins in total, about 40 per tape.

Guess i can always try it myself, at tleast that way I would know how to do it for the future, no doubt I will end up getting more videos done..

Cheers

 

[Damini]

Buy the chip, transfer it to digital, host it on some webspace or on a FTP, and paypal someone here a token amount to burn it onto DVD and post it to you. Someone here is bound to have a DVD burner.

 

[leggy]

Originally posted by Damini
Buy the chip, transfer it to digital, host it on some webspace or on a FTP, and paypal someone here a token amount to burn it onto DVD and post it to you. Someone here is bound to have a DVD burner.

There would be some serious megabytage.

But good idea none the less.

 

[old.Fweddy]

Buy me a DVD Burner and I'll be more than happy to transfer it for you.

That goes for all you peeps. Give me free stuff.

 

[nath]

Good idea Damini, I'd be happy to do it actually. (That's if you want it saved as a file on a dvd, not as a dvd viewable thing cos I tried that once, and after 40mins and 3 frames done, I got a little miffed :\)

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

I think I have a digi card somewhere Adams, lemme have a look for you.

 

[Lester]

Ask Tremor.

 

[Greef]

Originally posted by old.RedVenom
You could do it yourself, but don't bother with VCD - VCD is shit.

 

[Greef]

You only need a cheap TV card and something that capture in DVD quality mpeg2 like intervideo wincoder. Then use something like InstantCD/DVD to copy to DVD.


Oh and a DVD burner. ..... err and a VCR

edit: or if you've got a biggy hard drive and not too much video you could store it on your PC. (10gb=about 200 mins DVD quality mpeg2)

 

[hoggsboss]

if you go to www.popbitch.com there is an ad on the right hand panel which advertises the following...........


[ad]Your valuable home vhs movie transferred to mpeg / vcd / dvd. discretion assured. i don't judge i just digitise. But! anything clearly *not* involving consenting adults is a NO.
25 quid p/ h of film, add 10 - 20 for editing / music etc.. service also available for non dodgy videos, family weddings, sports days etc [/ad]


has a link which is for the persons email.