VHS to MiniDV tape recording

nomorefarscape wrote on 11/8/2005, 2:56 PM
This should be simple but for some reason I cannot get it to work.
The DV cam is a JVC GR-D53 and I have set the AV Imput to On. I have connected it to a Sharp VC-MH705 6 head recorder using the Line 2 Imput/Output. I am using the supplied JVC scart adapter with a y/c cable and the red and white audio cables. The AV In appears on the DV cam screen, the VHS tape plays and i can see the film on the TV, it's not copy protected but nothing is going on to the DV tape. The camera tells me it's recording but it's recording nothing.
I cannot find any option on the VCR to tell it to go in to O/P mode and there is nothing in the instruction manual either. I used the same recorder to copy from VHS to VHS years ago so the O/P via scart does work. The only think I can think is that the scart adapter supplied is one way only. If it is can you tell, and where yould you buy the correct one in England.

Thats all, thanks.

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DGrob wrote on 11/8/2005, 5:03 PM
The VHS player is outputing an analog signal. You can use your camcorder to convert this to digital, look for something like AV>DV in the menu and set it to on. You may also have to remove the DV tape and disable "enable device control" in Vegas. Check your manual.

Now hook up the camcorder to your computer, open Vegas Capture. With the camcorder in VCR mode, play your VHS tape. The camcorder will convert this analog signal to digital and Vegas will capture it as an *.avi file.

Now you can edit or whatever, and the Print-To-Tape (PTT) back out to your camcorder as a digital file.

I don't think you can simply record analogue input as digital info on your camcorder.

HTH, Darryl
farss wrote on 11/8/2005, 5:46 PM
You can record analogue as digital within a camcorder or VCR, that's perhaps more likely to work than using the device to do a pass through conversion.
Although it seems like a waste of time, tape and head life there is a small advantage in doing this and then capturing the DV tape. You've now got a tape with T/C so if you ever need to recapture you're all set.
Bob.
Grazie wrote on 11/8/2005, 10:01 PM
I sometimes record old PAL VHS shot footage from VHS mini cartridges direct to miniDV tape WHILE it is being captured by VidCap. Even if I don't simultaneously VidCap it assures a t/c and provides much needed re-capture options without needing to go back "again" to the original - this is a good thing! Plus I now have a "newer" digitised tape on a small or large DV format.

Grazie
nomorefarscape wrote on 11/9/2005, 4:10 PM
It will work. I just have to find out how. On the assumption that it is the scart adapter that is one way only I have ordered a switchable one. The camera does not appear to have an option to do pass through straight to the PC, but then I haven't really loked at this option. Perhaps someone could tell me how this is usually done. The tape I need to copy is the only one left of a musical recorded in 2001 and is has been played to death. I want to get a digital copy before it becomes unplayable.
If the camcorder cannot "see" the o/p from the VCR I doubt that pass through will work either, unless you know differently DGrob
nomorefarscape wrote on 11/10/2005, 11:24 AM
The scart adapter arrived and it will allow me to connect everything together and see a TV picture on the digicam. Unfortunately I am getting interference on the screen of both the TV and the digicam when i start the VCR tape and record it. Every 10 seconds the picture snows out and the sound slows down.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and what I can do about it?
Will I have the same problem if I try to do a pass through recording in to Vegas 3?
PeterWright wrote on 11/10/2005, 5:38 PM
May be copy protection which operates when a record device is connected.