Hello Everyone,
I'm looking for some advice here if you would be so kind. First of all, I am an audio guy. I know a lot about everything audio and have the entire Sony suit of pro applications including Vegas 8 Pro and DVD Architect as well as several other higher end audio applications with a great many audio plug-ins and a fair amount of audio hardware. I have a very basic video card (Asus Extreem XL550, an ATI card) that I know I will need to replace.
I have recently retired from my "day job" so I have a lot of time. While cleaning out my basement (actually a finished living/entertainment area), I ran across about 100+ video cassett tapes and discovered that I gave my last VHS player to one of my daughters about 3 months ago and have no way to play back any of these tapes. These tapes vary from stuff shot with a camcorder years ago to a nice collection of kid's genre movies.
I would like to transfer these VHS cassett tapes to DVD and would like some advice on what equipment I should buy. I have a Plextor 716A DVD/CD burner installed on my audio computer. I've had excellent results bouncing and burning audio to this drive and expect it to do well with video (I would appreciate your opinion on this). My audio computer is a Tyan quad (2 x AMD Opteron 265 processors, 4 gig ram, WinXP Pro SP2).
Given the above, and desiring to retain whatever audio quality I can and accepting whatever video quality the tapes/player can deliver, what VHS cassett player and what video card would you recommend to get these tapes into Vegas. I am sure most of the audio on the tapes is stereo. I also use Pro Tools a lot and that application seems to like Nvidia based cards better than ATI based cards. As far as budget goes, I am fairly open. However, spending a lot on a VHS cassett player doesn't make a lot of sense to me because it's legacy technology but I need something reliable enough to get the tapes transfered that will deliver good sound. I don't really have a clue about video capture.
Again, thanks in advance for any advice.
Greg
I'm looking for some advice here if you would be so kind. First of all, I am an audio guy. I know a lot about everything audio and have the entire Sony suit of pro applications including Vegas 8 Pro and DVD Architect as well as several other higher end audio applications with a great many audio plug-ins and a fair amount of audio hardware. I have a very basic video card (Asus Extreem XL550, an ATI card) that I know I will need to replace.
I have recently retired from my "day job" so I have a lot of time. While cleaning out my basement (actually a finished living/entertainment area), I ran across about 100+ video cassett tapes and discovered that I gave my last VHS player to one of my daughters about 3 months ago and have no way to play back any of these tapes. These tapes vary from stuff shot with a camcorder years ago to a nice collection of kid's genre movies.
I would like to transfer these VHS cassett tapes to DVD and would like some advice on what equipment I should buy. I have a Plextor 716A DVD/CD burner installed on my audio computer. I've had excellent results bouncing and burning audio to this drive and expect it to do well with video (I would appreciate your opinion on this). My audio computer is a Tyan quad (2 x AMD Opteron 265 processors, 4 gig ram, WinXP Pro SP2).
Given the above, and desiring to retain whatever audio quality I can and accepting whatever video quality the tapes/player can deliver, what VHS cassett player and what video card would you recommend to get these tapes into Vegas. I am sure most of the audio on the tapes is stereo. I also use Pro Tools a lot and that application seems to like Nvidia based cards better than ATI based cards. As far as budget goes, I am fairly open. However, spending a lot on a VHS cassett player doesn't make a lot of sense to me because it's legacy technology but I need something reliable enough to get the tapes transfered that will deliver good sound. I don't really have a clue about video capture.
Again, thanks in advance for any advice.
Greg