Many families have old home video tapes. It will be very sad if these recordings disappear just because the tape is deformed or demagnetized. However, analog recordings from VHS tapes can be saved by digitizing them and storing them on your computer's hard drive.
Necessary
- - hardware converter Canopus ADVC110;
- - IEEE1394 FireWire controller;
- - Firewire IEEE1394 cable;
- - video recorder;
- - cable with RCA connectors;
- - DVIO program;
- - video cassette.
Instructions
Step 1
In order to save information from a VHS cassette to a computer, prepare equipment for digitization. Using the Firewire IEEE1394 cable that comes with the hardware converter, connect the converter to the IEEE1394 connector on your computer.
Step 2
Connect the VCR to the converter. To do this, connect the video output of the tape recorder to the video input on the front panel of the converter using a cable with an RCA connector, colloquially referred to as "tulip". Do the same with the audio output of the tape recorder and the audio input of the converter.
Step 3
Turn on the VCR and rewind the tape to the beginning of the tape. If the tape has not been rewound for a long time, rewind the tape from beginning to end and back again several times.
Step 4
Press the Input Select button on the converter. The Analog In indicator should then light up. If this does not happen, press the button one more time.
Step 5
Specify the location on the computer disk where the digitized video will be saved. Please note that when digitizing a video using an external converter, you will get files of a rather large size. Therefore, they should be saved to a disk whose file system allows files larger than four gigabytes to exist.
Step 6
Start Dvio on your computer. In the program window, click on the File button. In the window that opens, specify the location where the video will be saved and enter the file name. Click on the "Save" button.
Step 7
Start digitizing your video. To do this, click on the Capture video from camera button in the DVIO window. Start playback on the VCR. A counter of captured frames and an indicator of the size of the recorded file will appear in the program window.
Step 8
Click the Stop button to stop recording the file. The digitized video can now be edited with a video editor, removed noise from the sound with a sound processing program and cut to disk.
