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Mr_Christopher wrote on 12/27/2004, 12:00 PM
I may have just answered my own question from reading some posts here.

I think all I need to do is:

transfer the VHS to my Sony mini-dv camera. Then Captue that file to disk...Then I am cooking.

True or False? :-)

Chris
gogiants wrote on 12/27/2004, 12:55 PM
True, that will work.

Or, you might check if your mini-DV camera has "pass-through" functionality. This would allow you to wire your VHS player into your camera, meanwhile capturing from the camera onto your computer. The camera acts like an analog to digital converter. Obviously, this would take half the time versus the other option.

Finally, there are separate products that do essentially the same thing, but they would only be worth the cost if you really had a lot of tapes to convert.
Mr_Christopher wrote on 12/27/2004, 1:13 PM
Cheers to that!

Chris

inkybme1 wrote on 12/29/2004, 9:02 PM
If you are interested in video converters you may want to look at Canopus. Very reliable and will keep your audio and video in synch. http://www.canopus.us/Index_US.asp
MrSpeed wrote on 12/30/2004, 4:10 AM
Converting VHS to DVD was one of my objectives at first as well.. Luckily I did some research first and learned that certain cameras have a pass-thru feature. I also needed a new camera.

So for a little more money than a ADVC100 I bought a new camera with pass-thru. It seems to work well for my needs.

Pass-thru is the desired way to go IMHO. Otherwise you spend two hours getting the tape onto your DV and then another two hours to get the DV footage onto the PC. Of course you can do other things during the process but the pass-thru is a time saver.
mario1978 wrote on 2/9/2005, 11:13 AM
I've transferred a lot of VHS. I have a Sony Digital8 camcorder. The camcorder connects to my PC with a firewire (Sony calls it iLink) cable. The VCR connects to the camcorder with a cable that has three RCA connectors at the VCR end and a small jack on the other end. Play your VHS tape on the VCR, and the camcorder converts the analog to digital and passes it down the firewire cable to the PC. Two tricks I learned the hard way: First, don't have a tape in the camcorder while doing this. Otherwise the camcorder tries to obey signals coming back on the iLink cable telling it to do things. Second, you need to turn off the option in Movie Studio to try and control the camcorder while capturing. If you don't do that, when you start the capture, the program will try to tell the camcorder what to do. It won't get the expected response and will stop capturing. Very frustrating until you realize what's going on.