Print to VHS

BDiehl wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:04 PM

I have a question on how to print best quality back to vhs. My daught has a movie review show on the local public access channel and I have no problem producing good quality DVD's, but the can only use VHS tapes. I have printed back to my Sony DV camera and then tranfered from the DV to vhs but am dissatisfied with the tape to tape loss of quality. My computer is a Sony Vaio 430G and it does great on quality. Any solutions on how to output more directly with better quality?

Cheers - BD

Comments

Sarasdad wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:07 PM

have you tried printing directly to tape from computer

BDiehl wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:12 PM

I am not sure how to print directly from the computer to tape and the Sony manual book and online support is not much help.

Cheers -BD

Sarasdad wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:16 PM

From computer via firewire to camcorder and then hook analog (RCA PLUGS)OUT OF CAMERA TO VCR INPUTS

BDiehl wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:20 PM

So I would hook up as you said and then use print to dv camera and the signal would pass through the camera into the VHS? Sounds easy hmmm..

Cheers - BD

Sarasdad wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:26 PM

I believe you select preview on external device or monitor also in preferences disable DV controls and you have to punch record on VCR.Someone will simplify this better than me in a few min. This forum is great.

Sarasdad wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:28 PM

I believe you select preview on device or monitor also in preferences disable DV controls and you have to punch record on VCR.Someone will simplify this better than me in a few min. This forum is great.

ADinelt wrote on 2/1/2004, 1:19 PM

If you can create good quality DVDs, why not just create a DVD, then play it through your home DVD player and record it onto a VHS tape with your VCR?. Just take the A/V outputs of your DVD player and run them into the A/V inputs on the VCR. There is the extra step of creating a DVD then recording it to VHS, but the results are very good. Actually, since you are already printing back to DV tape, then to VHS, there isn't really an extra step involved.

This is the setup I am using so my son can create his own video projects for school.

Al

djcc wrote on 2/2/2004, 7:04 PM

I'm wondering if part of the problem is comparing the VHS final to the version on the computer..... a computer monitor will show fantastically better resolution than the average TV. Couple that TV to a standard VHS deck, and you are looking at a fraction of what would be seen straight out of MS on the computer....

...just a thought...

mbryant wrote on 2/3/2004, 12:42 AM

The problem is likely to be the limitation of VHS. If you have exported the DV file to DV tape, I don't see how doing directly from the computer, or first creating a DVD would help... you still need to put this source into the VHS. A DV print to tape should be an exact copy of what is on the computer; and encoding to DVD can only reduce the quality.

Solution: Create a DVD, buy a cheap DVD player, and give them both.

Mark