Everybody has video clips that capture memorable events, for example, a birthday, wedding, school years, a tourist trip or just fun everyday life. Today, information from video cassettes can be easily transferred to a more reliable storage medium - a DVD disc.
Necessary
- - computer;
- - video capture card or TV tuner with inputs for receiving a video signal;
- - video recorder;
- - DVD-RW drive for writing files to disk.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, install a video capture card or TV tuner with inputs for receiving a video signal to a computer. You can download a suitable device at https://www.pctuner.ru. There are also drivers
Step 2
Turn on the VCR and connect it to the video card according to the instructions, prepare the cassettes that you want to recode.
Step 3
Turn on the cassette in the VCR and the recording software on the computer.
Step 4
Select the format in which you want to save the video in the program. Click "Start recording" with your mouse and wait for the entire video to be recorded. The video card will receive an analog signal from a VCR, then the video is recoded using special codecs to digital. After that, the recording in the new format will be saved to one or several files on the computer.
Step 5
When finished, be sure to press the "Stop Recording" button.
Step 6
Look at the finished result on the computer.
Step 7
Please note that recording quality will not improve when transcoding to digital. The video can only be edited, add new effects or music.
Step 8
Insert the DVD into your DVD drive and use Nero Start Smart to burn your valuable material onto this medium.
Step 9
Run the program. A list of tasks will open in the window that appears, select "Burn data disc".
Step 10
The window will appear again, its left side will be empty, and the right side will display the files and folders of your computer. Select the file you just burned and drag to the left to add it to the list of files to burn.
Step 11
Make sure that the total data size indicator at the bottom of the window does not show more than your DVD drive.
Step 12
Click the Record button at the top of the window.
Step 13
During recording, do not perform any operations on the computer for the recording to be successful.
Step 14
At the end of the process, click OK. Your DVD is burned.