do you have RCA inputs on your Radeon? If you do you can run the RCA out from the VCR to your computer, and run the sound into your line in on the soundcard.
First off, you'll need a capture device. This could either be a VIVO grafix card or a TV tuner card. Or a dedicated video capture card like the Matrox series, the Matrox card with the breakout box is particularly good. But expensive. A TV Tuner card, on the other hand, is cheap.
You'll need to take composite video out of your VCR into the composite video in socket of your capture device (usually an RCA type phono socket).
The audio out of your VCR will usually connect to the line in of your sound card (or onboard sound).
Then, you'll need software to capture, edit and convert the captured footage.
Pinnacle Studio 9, Nero V6.0 are but two examples of such software.
That's it briefly.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited November 2004
ATI's All-In-wonder USB adapter will do Input and Output and convert from VCR to video a normal card can display (its essentially a FRAME and res\refresh sync convertor). IF you do not need a TV tuning capability, and can use the VCR tuner plus an external antenna on VCR you can stream video through the adapter into your computer. That fast a box, with USB 2.0 onboard port used for this, will do fine with that adapter. That is the cheaper way. Dazzle media hubs can also do this, and the high-end ones of those with Dazzle software are quite decent.
Best way is a separate capture card or multimedia card (TV plus SVGA or better computer video streams-- with dual GPUs which can capture internal to one card), yes. With that fast a box, an integrated card is VERY feasible also.
If it is just one (or a couple) tape(s), an external All-In_Wonder or Dazzle media hub would be fine (just be careful when going cheap, some of these things come in mono-directional versions, and that you do not want if you need VCR or TV stream video output also), if you need pro grade or plan on doing this many times go with an internal to computer solution.
I have done this by hooking my Mini-DV camcorder up to the VCR and transferring the video to the camera, then taking the camera to my PC and uploading it (IEEE 1394 - FireWire) into Movie Maker 2. Then I have a nice .wmv file, all done!
I have done this by hooking my Mini-DV camcorder up to the VCR and transferring the video to the camera, then taking the camera to my PC and uploading it (IEEE 1394 - FireWire) into Movie Maker 2. Then I have a nice .wmv file, all done!
Now, that's a good idea
A friend of mine has the Dazzle hub, it works well. I forgot about those.
I used both my current TV tuner card, and my Ti4600 video card before that (both have RCA video inputs). Connected my VCR to the video inputs and used an RCA to stereo 1/8" jack to connect the VCR's sound output to the audio input on the soundcard.
Then I used a program like WinDVR to record the VCR's output to MPEG4.
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You'll need to take composite video out of your VCR into the composite video in socket of your capture device (usually an RCA type phono socket).
The audio out of your VCR will usually connect to the line in of your sound card (or onboard sound).
Then, you'll need software to capture, edit and convert the captured footage.
Pinnacle Studio 9, Nero V6.0 are but two examples of such software.
That's it briefly.
Best way is a separate capture card or multimedia card (TV plus SVGA or better computer video streams-- with dual GPUs which can capture internal to one card), yes. With that fast a box, an integrated card is VERY feasible also.
If it is just one (or a couple) tape(s), an external All-In_Wonder or Dazzle media hub would be fine (just be careful when going cheap, some of these things come in mono-directional versions, and that you do not want if you need VCR or TV stream video output also), if you need pro grade or plan on doing this many times go with an internal to computer solution.
Now, that's a good idea
A friend of mine has the Dazzle hub, it works well. I forgot about those.
Then I used a program like WinDVR to record the VCR's output to MPEG4.