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VCR ripping

by Edhenne Feb 20, 2009 11:02PM PST

Is there any way to burn VCR tapes to my PC? My son (Now deceased) was assistant athetic trainer for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 1979-199. I have VCR tapes for every televised Crimson Tide game from 1985-1990. I want to heep them in a better format, and perhaps to edit and burn them to DVD-RW disks.

Thanks, Ed Henne

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VCR tapte to DVD first
by Joliet Eddie Feb 21, 2009 1:43AM PST

My wife faced the same thing: many VCR tapes of instructional videos that she wanted to convert to digital format. We went to Best Buy and bought a DVD recorder that also had a VCR deck. Dubbing tapes to DVD is a cinch, though you do have to do that in real time. Once you have the DVDs burned, you can use software (I use a DVD ripper from Xilisoft) to rip those DVDs into smaller MPEGs if you want. But I suspect you just want DVDs of the tapes, so the dual deck is the way to go. Not expensive either.

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Why use the computer?
by ahtoi Feb 22, 2009 4:24PM PST

Why not just get a dvd recorder?

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Thanks for this.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 22, 2009 9:03PM PST

That's the method I use. A 55 buck DVD recorder. Then off to the PC with the discs. For quick editing I use the following titles (the free ones.)

Virtual Dub (snip snip!)
DVD FLICK (that was easy)
IMGBURN (that is good stuff)

Bob

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