VCR tape to digital file
I have a friend who has a 5 minute thing on a VCR tape that he would like to e-mail a friend rather than sending a duplicate tape.
Is there a way to convert w/o special equipment or cards?
VCR tape to digital file
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Keep in mind its going to look like garbage. Spend the bucks for a capture card if you want decent quality. And don't get the USB dongle crap. Get one that uses a PCI slot. (newegg) This one is an upgraded version of what I use (TV2000XP Deluxe). The only difference between mine, and this one, is that mine has a cable dongle that plugs into a proprietary port on the card. This one has all of the jacks built-in. That, and mine has the AM/FM tuner.
Heh.. speaking of crap... Most TV tuners don't do a good job of analog->digital conversion- audio synch and dropped frames are a big issue. Since you are just doing a short tape, it will probably work OK, but I do this a lot, and use a Canopus ADVC-50
http://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.p ... rdRead=150
- picture quality is so much better than other converters I've seen, and no software involved, no drivers, etc.. completely hardware. Speaking of hardware, it is audio/video locked, so you NEVER have audio sync issues. Unfortunately they are out of production (look on e-bay)- the replacement is a little more expensive http://www.academicsuperstore.com/marke ... ch=canopus
http://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.p ... rdRead=150
- picture quality is so much better than other converters I've seen, and no software involved, no drivers, etc.. completely hardware. Speaking of hardware, it is audio/video locked, so you NEVER have audio sync issues. Unfortunately they are out of production (look on e-bay)- the replacement is a little more expensive http://www.academicsuperstore.com/marke ... ch=canopus