need help :VHS Video footage to DV Cam conversion

the_satanic_COokie · Post by **the_satanic_COokie** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:06 pm

ok I'm trying to pull old footage off these haggardassed old tapes I've got from way back when. They're just tapes of me and my friends early adventures in filmmaking. I'm playing them through a VCR and I have it rigged up so that its going into my current camcorder. It's playing in the camcorder, I can see it on the viewfinder and hear it. The question I have is, HOW in the living hell of f*** do I record it onto a tape in my camcorder and make it digital?

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:27 pm

MAny different camcorders have different ways of doing analog-in dubbing. Mine requires you press a sequence buttons on the remote. But your cam is probably different. Read the manual is the only advice I can give you.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:54 pm

You use the camcorder as a VCR. That's why you can see and hear it. I have no idea what type of camera you are using, so my best advice is to refer to the manual.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:13 pm

read manual

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:20 am

Usual record in playback mode. Alt get a cheap capture card.

pan-modo_pictures · Post by **pan-modo_pictures** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:42 pm

You can go right to your computer through firewire. Just hook up your camera to the vcr, like you have done and also plug it into your camera using firewire. If you don't have a firewire port on your camera/computer you will have to get an analog capture card, and then you can just capture right through thre vcr.

the_satanic_COokie · Post by **the_satanic_COokie** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:28 pm

Holy s***....why didn't I think of that?

sometimes I scare myself with my own stupidity...

Caveman · Post by **Caveman** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:43 pm

Alternitively... if you have a VCR that can burn video str8 to DVD couldn't u just do that and rip it off the DVD on ur computer?

Actually... would that be possible? If so I wanna do it 2!

Post by **Matt** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:42 pm

On my camera you have to use the remote to start recording through the DV-in port. No idea why they didn't allow you to use the big red record button actually on the camera!

BenjaminLevin · Post by **BenjaminLevin** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:30 am

I'm still confused on how to do this. What cables will I need to hook my camera up to the VCR so I can transfer VHS to one of my camera tapes? I don't have an Ilink on my VCR but is there another way I could do this with my camera?