Going from VHS to DVD on PC with DVD burner

[XRdirtHead]

I'm going to pick up a DVD burner now that prices have come down. Would one of These make it so I could just plug my VCR into it and burn away....
Thanks,
Ed

 

[MrMiyagi]

Yup, that's what I use. So far I haven't had any problems capturing video with it.

 

[Sandor]

There may be a shorter way I don't know about, but for best quality, you would have to capture the VHS to the hard drive in an uncompressed format (which takes a bunch of hard drive space), convert to MPG-2 (which takes quite some time), then burn to DVD. There are many useful guides and a forum at:
www.dvdrhelp.com

But that card would work to hook up your VCR to your computer to recoed video.

 

[XRdirtHead]

cool...I have plenty of hard drive space and I don't mind spending some time converting and stuff but I just want to make sure I do this right the first time...

 

[MrMiyagi]

I don't know what drive you're thinking about getting....but Sonic's MyDVD software that came with my Sony DRU510a is suuuuuper easy to use. It has it's own capture option that puts the video on your HD (at max quality) and throws it into menus automatically. There really isn't a need to do any sort of converting, which is nice.

 

[XRdirtHead]

I was thinking either that one or the Plextor.....not sure of any differences other than the Plextor is 8x and the Sony is 4x....

 

[onlyCOpunk]

With Plextor you have the feeling of knowing you have the best product on the market. But depending on how fast your computer is a decent encoder card should direct encode to mpeg-2 with no problems. Although if you want optimal quality you're going to have check out www.dvdrhelp.com or www.doom9.org both are great DVD bruning sites.

 

[XRdirtHead]

I'll have to check out those sites...thanks