Has anyone ever transferred VHS video to their PC via their camcorder? I never thought of that until I saw a YouTube video. I need some VHS material transferred but my card is on an older PC with some pretty old/basic software on it. The guy in the video basically used the camcorder as the bridge and streamed the video through it and captured it on the PC. I don't like adding another connection in the process but my capturing software on my new PC is a lot better...
Only a few camcorders have video input. Another cog in the transfer wheel anyways. I think you are better off getting a USB or PCI direct S-Video-Composite video capture card.
Worked fine for me. I did it with a canon ZR85, I don't know if camcorders these days still have composite input.
Just checked the camcorder....has AV -> DV out mode that uses an S-video input. Sweet. I also have another HR-W5 W-VHS to play the tapes on. Sweet. Uncompressed is the best? Windows Movie Maker?
Disagree. Most capture cards are unlikely to yield any major improvement over the capture on a camcorder (although obviously this depends on what capture card and what camcorder). In any event, yes, I have done this and it worked adequately for me.
Why don't you just connect the video direct to a capture card? It would save a lot of messing about. USB capture boxes are pretty cheap these days Yakumo
I'll try both ways and see what's better. Like I said the issue is that my capture card is old and cheap and so is the PC that it's in. I also don't like the capture software....
Uncompressed could cause problems depending on resolution, clip length and pc specs. Using Huffman YUV or some other lossless codec should make things a bit easier.
when I record from VHS I use 720 x 480 resolution (because it will end up on a DVD) and capture in MPEG 2 at 14mbsp or used Huffy or another lossless codec that I can't remember the name of right now. The only problem with using a lossless codec are the massive file sizes. You're looking at around 10GB for 15 minutes of video Yakumo
