Transfer Vhs to DVD - Don't Lose Your Precious Home Movies

You may have old vhs tapes or 8mm full of memories stacked somewhere. I have bad news, those precious moments recorded are not gonna last forever. Yes, they are fading. Fortunately good quality DVDs last much longer. You probably have many home movies on vhs tapes that need transfer to DVD.

If you want to preserve these old movies you will need to transfer vhs to DVD. The process is a little more complicated that converting other formats, because most vhs videos are recorded on tapes and are not stored elsewhere.

Besides paying somebody to do this, there are 3 ways to transfer vhs to DVD or 8mm dvd transfer;

You can use your computer with a capture card or USB device. Mind you, you need a lot of space on your hard drive. At least 5GB. Hard drives or disks are cheap, but if you want to use free space on your hard drive, make sure you defragment your disk first.

To transfer VHS to DVD you will need to hook up the VHS player to your computer.
Your best quality option is using the S-video output (if you have one) on your VHS player. Next options are using the yellow analog video (RCA) composite output.

You may want to use a digital camcorder (or DV) if you have the appropriate inputs available.

If you have a dvd and want to use a video converter to make the video friendly for your little device, this is completely understandable as many different formats can be used from dvds to little devices. Videora is a straightforward video converter program that will get your dvds running quickly and smoothly on your iPod.

The most time consuming way is to capture the vhs video using an analog-to-DV converter. If you want to make edits to your existing video, this is the best option, though it will take you hours if you really want to edit all the parts you don't want on the final dvd.

This way of conversion limits the opportunities to edit the video but converting one hour of video takes only one hour. After you have converted the video to MPEG-2, the next step is to record the dvd. Vhs will automatically be converted to dvd and the dvds will also be created.

If you want to transfer your movie from vhs to dvd without making whatsoever edits, this is the best way to do it. You can free up hard drive space by storing your video clips on CD or DVD once you're done editing them.

Handy tip: If you own an analog camcorder, you do NOT need to go out and buy a digital camcorder in order to make DVDs or internet videos.