Chris Wilson Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 My pal took some interesting footage of some exotica from a test day at Donington yesterday. It's a late 1990's Sony that has a small tape cassette in it. He could play the video back through our little kitchen TV using a single lead with a phono plug each end. he hadn't got the audio lead with him. How, in the simplest possible terms, could I put the tape, or parts of it, onto a DVD? I run Windows 2000 and can play and record DVD's using soemthing called VLC and an earlish version of Nero respectively. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philstowell Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Could you find out what connections the camra has, because i have an old one somewhere that i used to plug straight in to my dvd recorder? ill try and dig out the name of the connection unless someone beats me to it. problem is, it will be friday when im home buddy phill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 You would need an AV input on your graphics card, which is a not a common thing to have these days. The easiest option would be to go to your local camera/video store as they will normally offer video to DVD conversion service. It normally only costs a tenner or so per video, so not too expensive if it's just a one off. I recently paid only £100 to have 30 old Cini (sp) camera reels converted to DVD. The quality was suprisingly good considering it was made using late 70's technology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 How about a USB video capture device? £30 + pnp from CPC: http://cpc.farnell.com/compro/c200/video-capture-usb-c200/dp/CS16910 Then play the vid straight into your PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 If the camcorder has DV-Output it can be plugged directly into a DVD-recorder or a PC via a firewireport. It usually looks like a small oddly shaped mini-usb port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 If it's Hi-8 I can do it for you. If it's DV then I can only do it if you bring over the camera. Look at the tape for either of those symbols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 If you want video and sound I'd try to find someone with a stand alone DVD recorder that has a composite input (yellow phono plug) and seperate inputs for audio (red and white photo plugs). You could do it via your PC, but you would need to get a video capture card and plug the yellow phono into that and then plug the white and red phonos into your sound card. You would then need to use whatever capture software to grab the video and sound, then edit it and transcode it to DVD (using something else to make the menus etc). I used to do this quite a lot, but the biggest issue is losing sync between the video and audio as they are coming in via two different sources. In the end I forked out £150 on a bit of kit that could transcode composite video to the new DV standard in real time, and also had inoutsfor the audio too. If you think you'll do this a lot then its worth getting the kit to do it, but if not then either just dump it onto a DVD using a standalone player, or pay someone else to do it for you. BTW, video editing is probably the most time consuming thing you can do on a PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 What's wrong with firewire? Digital, higher quality, no hassle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 BTW, video editing is probably the most time consuming thing you can do on a PC But probably not the thing that consumes the most time for any normal adult Male.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 If you want video and sound I'd try to find someone with a stand alone DVD recorder that has a composite input (yellow phono plug) and seperate inputs for audio (red and white photo plugs). You could do it via your PC, but you would need to get a video capture card and plug the yellow phono into that and then plug the white and red phonos into your sound card. You would then need to use whatever capture software to grab the video and sound, then edit it and transcode it to DVD (using something else to make the menus etc). I used to do this quite a lot, but the biggest issue is losing sync between the video and audio as they are coming in via two different sources. In the end I forked out £150 on a bit of kit that could transcode composite video to the new DV standard in real time, and also had inoutsfor the audio too. If you think you'll do this a lot then its worth getting the kit to do it, but if not then either just dump it onto a DVD using a standalone player, or pay someone else to do it for you. BTW, video editing is probably the most time consuming thing you can do on a PC As Pete says, DV is the best way to go. Phono cables aren't digital, DV is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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