My S.O. and her family have many old videos of gatherings, Christmas parties, etc. on videocassette that they would like to transfer to DVD. Being the closest thing to an expert PC user in the equation (God help them), I have been tasked with finding out how to do this.
I know that there are AV to DV converters with software that you can buy. It would seem to me that you could also use a TV tuner card and capture things with fair ease that way. But I was looking on Newegg for cards and saw in a revew that some, apparently won't accept such input to prevent people from copying copyrighted video.
So, I need some advice: What's the easiest way to do this? I've been given a budget of $200, but of course if I could get up and running for less, that would be fine.
My rig isn't exactly game-ready anymore, but I think it should be able to handle this task fine:
- AMD Athlon 64 3200
- 1 gb ram
- 240 gb hard drive space (about 40 free)
- 6800 GT video card, MSI if I remember properly.
- Decent Sony DVD R/W drive and a second DVD read-only drive.
(Hey, when I bought it a couple of years ago it was cool, at least.)
Given such, what would your recommendation be? We have a decent four-head VCR in still great working condition, so that's covered. Should I just get the coverter box or would a tuner card with appropriate inputs (most of them come with a variety of adapters it seems) work as well?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to edit the video, so I need a Software/Hardware combo, I'm sure. I have Nero Ultra that I could use to take care of the DVD end of things once the video is converted over.
Thank you for your input.
Brian
I know that there are AV to DV converters with software that you can buy. It would seem to me that you could also use a TV tuner card and capture things with fair ease that way. But I was looking on Newegg for cards and saw in a revew that some, apparently won't accept such input to prevent people from copying copyrighted video.
So, I need some advice: What's the easiest way to do this? I've been given a budget of $200, but of course if I could get up and running for less, that would be fine.
My rig isn't exactly game-ready anymore, but I think it should be able to handle this task fine:
- AMD Athlon 64 3200
- 1 gb ram
- 240 gb hard drive space (about 40 free)
- 6800 GT video card, MSI if I remember properly.
- Decent Sony DVD R/W drive and a second DVD read-only drive.
(Hey, when I bought it a couple of years ago it was cool, at least.)
Given such, what would your recommendation be? We have a decent four-head VCR in still great working condition, so that's covered. Should I just get the coverter box or would a tuner card with appropriate inputs (most of them come with a variety of adapters it seems) work as well?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to edit the video, so I need a Software/Hardware combo, I'm sure. I have Nero Ultra that I could use to take care of the DVD end of things once the video is converted over.
Thank you for your input.
Brian
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