Wide World of Women

Hi guys, you seem like the pros and i would like to contribute to this site and believe me, i do have pics to contribute. here is my situation, have about a dozen or so tapes with newsbabes going back 10 yrs or more and some recent ones as well, mainly CNN, some CBC, Canada Shopping Network (i know its not called that, but i think you know what i mean) plus many, many more, i need to get them on my pc, anyway know how i can do this????

Believe me if I can do this, you will like the caps I post I can assure u of that, have a lot of Canadian newsbabes as well. Can someone post replys to this detailing how best to do it?

Any help would be appreciated, I was thinking of buying a dvd burner/vhs player combo that you hook up to the tv, any ideas?? Thanks

Bakeman

Hi bakeman2004,

that's a hell of a question and a lot of work to answer in a proper way. Fortunately Matt Woodward got into gear and wrote a pretty good guide on the matter.

Check it out: Guide to capturing, cleaning, and compressing video:

Once you got your analog stuff digitized to hd, you might want to read my post on how to grap and cap from digital devices.

Some links to A/D video converter manufacturers:
(just to give you an idea on what's out there)

Pinnacle Systems: offers some pretty good and reasonably priced solutions to get your tapes onto harddisc.

Canopus: does just the same, although their equipment tends to be more useful for the video professional.

That might help you out.