I have done this many times both for myself and for others, if they are memories that are very valuable to you ,you should think VHS to hard drive because DVD?s have less of a shelf life than VHS tapes, once you put the video on your hard drive DVD is easy . In fact VHS to hard drive is easy. I like to use studio but windows movie maker works fine studio is great because you can buy the one of their movie boxes that digitizes the analog VCR signal strait to you computer, the other way is to use you camcorder most have this capability you have to refer to your owner?s manual.
Now you have to remember if you are digitizing one hour it will take one hour and one hour of analog signal will need about 12 gigs of hard drive space. this is because your analog is digitized into an avi file which is full quality, when you make a DVD from it all the unneeded info is taken out and reduced to 4.7 gigs that is another reason why it is best to store you video on a hard drive. Hope this helps

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