Audio won't capture/video will

barbnewbie wrote on 2/12/2003, 3:04 PM

I have been going along the path of converting home VSH videos to DVD. Everything has worked: VCR to Sony camcorder (used as an analog to digital converter) to Dell computer via firewire. (I have added memory and have a newer computer with a good processing speed.) Video Factory has captured great on all the previous videos! But then the problem. So, I downloaded Vegas to see if it would fix the problem.

Here is the problem: I have a professional video that my brother had done for my birthday about 5 years ago. He took some pictures to a business and they put the pictures to music and produced a VHS tape.

So, I went along my same path in order to convert this VHS tape to DVD. The video was captured BUT the audio wasn't. Actually, I can tell immediately it is not working because I can't even hear the audio when it is capturing.

So, I called the business who produced the video and they thought it may be because all my other home videos were not in stereo and he created this in stero/4 tracks. He thought I should try to change some settings. Does anyone have any clues of what settings I could start playing with?

barb

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sdmoore wrote on 2/12/2003, 4:46 PM

Hi barb,

I'm not sure that I can help but I'm curious as to whether this VHS tape plays OK on your VCR & TV.

Scott

barbnewbie wrote on 2/12/2003, 6:23 PM

Hi Scott,

Yes, it did play video/audio on the vcr/tv.

Well,I tried three different software packages. Nothing. I even tried copying the video from one VCR to another VCR. It would do the same thing: copy the video and not the audio.

So, finally I took the vcr that was hooked to my tv and hooked it to my computer (I had another vcr hooked to my computer). Yikes it works!!!

So, I am posting here just in case anyone else has this problem. Go figure. I don't know if it is just one of those compatability issues OR the vcr that worked was non-stereo.

barb

sdmoore wrote on 2/12/2003, 6:41 PM

Ah ha! I think the business that produced the VHS recorded it with a VCR that can record onto a 2nd audio track. One of my friends has one - his VCR calls it the 'HiFi' track. This track can only be played back on similar HiFi VCRs, which it seems, is what your VCR hooked to your TV is but not the VCR you used originally. Both the normal audio track and the HiFi track can be stereo so this, I think, gives you the 'stereo/4 track' that you mentioned in your first post. IMO this was not a very clever thing for the business that made the VHS to do as it restricts the number of VHSs that can play it. Incidentally, when you tried to do a VCR to VCR recording did you record it from your PC's non-HiFi VCR onto your TV's VCR? If you had done it the other way round you should have found the audio then captured OK as your non-HiFi VCR would have recorded the audio to a normal audio track.

Anyway, glad you've got it sorted.

Cheers,

Scott