** Convert Video Cassette To DVD **?

My suggestion is for people with computer knowledge that would be considered intermediate to advanced : Buy a TV-in card for your computer. However, you need to be comfortable with opening up your computer and installing the card. I believe TV-in cards are very cheap these days. Once the card is installed, you will be able to play the VCR video on your computer and record it with any number of free applications (do a search for some). The video will be captured in data format which can then be burned with your favorite burning software as a DVD video. Please note that VHS will never look as clear or crisp as an actual DVD movie does. It is possible to keep the quality of the video the same as it was on the VHS, but it will never be better.

I just did this. Well theres other options but this is how I did it. I bought a vhs/dvd combo player and recorder. You can get them at walmart or circuit city probably. Then all you do is put in the vhs tape and the dvd in. Set the source to dvd. Then there is a button called dubbing, you press that and it'll do it for you. If you buy one of these just make sure to read the manual because it may be different than I explained but pretty much everyone that I heard of do it this way has a very similar process to it. Also, you would need to remember to finalize the dvd because then it won't play anywhere else (computer, other dvd players). That will most likely be under set up. Now if you want to edit your videos, I would suggest going a different route if you don't want to go through the "ripping of the dvd" process.

If you send it to me, I'll do it for free. ... only if it's an American (ntsc) VHS tape. I don't have anything to play camcorder tapes on in order to capture them to digital. Don't have a PAL player for European tapes either. If you want to do it yourself... You need a video capture device for your computer. Many of the USB ones don't work that great. Firewire or a PCI card for a desktop is the way to go. Hauppauge makes some nice PCI TV / capture cards that have a hardware MPEG2 encoder so the captured video requires no lengthy conversion process before burning to DVD. That's what I'm using and the quality is pretty good... A VCR / DVD recorder combo unit would also work, but they won't copy movie tapes with copy protection and probably cost more than a decent capture device.

They make USB sticks that have a RBG connection to your VCR. you just play the tape and use the software with the USB stick to record the tape to a video file. Finally, you use a program called "SUPER" to convert the video file to whatever format you need.

You may take a look at this guide, it's about how to capture video from VHS tape to computer and burn to DVD, it works pretty well for me http://www.freedvdripper.net/how-to-capture-vhs-tape-video-vcr-to-dvd.html Hope it helps. Contact me if you have any other question.

Call Meijer's, Walgreen's, any photo shop or department will usually be able to do this for you and if not possibly knows where to get it done. Call ahead for availability & pricing. OR Buy a dvd-vcr combo recorder which performs this task.

You can pay to have it done at any place that developes film. To do it yourself you would need a VCR and a DVD writer hooked up to the same TV. Play the tape and record on the DVD.

I had the same problem but what i did was i Bought a Cassette to DVD converter it helps alot hope this helps ! and good luck ! oh yeah you can buy it from your local electronic store :)

There are VHS to DVD converters. If you have a different kind than that, the only way I know of is a firewire.