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I'm looking for something i can buy which will convert video (ie from a video camera) onto my computer. I've seen stuff around which inputs RCA and goes through a USB port in your Hard Drive where you can then manipulate onto a DVD or something using software. Has anyone else done this before and can offer any advice?

See
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/USB-2-0-Video-Au ... dZViewItem

Also saw this advertised
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfi ... ts_id=1146
and also on zazz
http://www.zazz.com.au/

Bought that exact same one mate, and it's brilliant.

Mind you, don't expect perfect quality - it can only record up to a certain screen size. That said though it's done what I wanted it for, which was to record music videos from foxtel.

The one I got came with it's own program, which I found pretty functional as well.

Hans_Gruber wrote:Mind you, don't expect perfect quality - it can only record up to a certain screen size.

Hmmm, I'm trying to convert a touch football Grand Final to DVD, I wonder whether this method would be the best one to maintain the quality?

You might want to speak to Dave, Brice.

mr_niceguy_1979 wrote:

Hans_Gruber wrote:Mind you, don't expect perfect quality - it can only record up to a certain screen size.

Hmmm, I'm trying to convert a touch football Grand Final to DVD, I wonder whether this method would be the best one to maintain the quality?

Depends on what it is currently on. If it's on a camcorder - use a cord to plug it into any usb slot, most camcorders will be recognised by windows well enough to be able to copy everything over using windows media player - and in full quality.

If what you have is on a vcr, then the usb capture card should do well enough for your purposes. VCRs aren't the best quality around, so chances are you won't lose much quality if any.

if u havnt brought it yet email me
apcs@txc.net.au
i can help

Brice.

All depends what format the original is on. VHS? Video8/MiniDV?

Hi guys, thanks for your replies. I think it's on a Video8/MiniDV. So I'm after a solution to "computerise" this footage, but also have a solution that will allow me to do other "computerisation" other old VHS that I have.

a simple solution is to use a dvd recorder; if you have one, a lot of people do nowadays, although obviously if you have a PVR (HDD only) this will not work.

at home i have a an NEC 80 gig HHD recorder/ DVD recorder.

in the front it has a mini-DV port (so you can plug your camera straight into the front) and of course AV-in (RCA plugs)

i had footage on a camera so i recorded this to HDD and then burnt it to a dvd where i could then copy across to computer as required.

quality was not noticably different to the tape-recorded footage

i bought it a while ago (not for that purpose, i bought it to record tv), and it was about 300 bucks then - im sure you could get them for much cheaper now.