Video editing

[Miket]

Bowtie

Thanks, interesting post, have loads of options now. :thumb::thumb:

[gareth08]

Mike
Do you have a video capture card on you,re pc already.
If you do then you will need either a s-video(from video recorder) to usb/firewire(pc) lead or a scart (from video) to usb/firewire (pc) lead.
If you do not have a video capture card (this converts analogue signals from you're video to digital for you're pc) then you could capture the vhs tape on you're video to you're digital cam.Most videos and camcorders have s-video/audio input and output jacks (usually coloured yellow , red and black)So you will need either an s-video to s-video lead or a s-video to audio/video jacks.

Gareth

[Miket]

Originally Posted by gareth08

Mike
Do you have a video capture card on you,re pc already.
If you do then you will need either a s-video(from video recorder) to usb/firewire(pc) lead or a scart (from video) to usb/firewire (pc) lead.
If you do not have a video capture card (this converts analogue signals from you're video to digital for you're pc) then you could capture the vhs tape on you're video to you're digital cam.Most videos and camcorders have s-video/audio input and output jacks (usually coloured yellow , red and black)So you will need either an s-video to s-video lead or a s-video to audio/video jacks.

Gareth

The graphics card is a NVIDIA Ge Force 6800LE which has an s-video socket, in the support manual it says it is Composite TV/Video out, is this a capture card

[gareth08]

Mike
Yes but only for video out .
You need a in/out capture card.
As it goes I belive that pc world are doing a package to do all this.
I'll go and check it out and get back to you
Gareth

[gareth08]

Mike
The best way for you to do this is as follows;

Get either the ADAPTEC USB Video converter £99.99 (product code 834571) which is an external device and plugs into you're USB port or the ADAPTEC AVC-2010PCI card £69.99 (product code 700859) which is a internal card (you have to take case of pc and put inside).Both are available from pc world and come with instuctions and software to use.

The software probably won't be great but will do the job for you but once you have the card/s to transfer video to pc you can use all sorts of software which I have but Nero 6 is pretty good for that as well.It's only when you want to start authoring DVd's etc and putting menus in that you need other software.

Regards
Gareth

[Miket]

Thanks for all your help mate. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

[Bowtie]

A regular VHS deck is only putting out composite video signal (low quality). It requires an S-VHS deck to put out s-video (higher quality) and it requires S-VHS recordings on a S-VHS tape to make full use of it. But TBC or even a good comb filter can work magic cleaning up an old VHS tape trough s-video...