I need all experienced video editers that know how to transfer comp movies to vhs ***

[someuser190826]

Please, I have a project due in about 2 days, I need your help. I need to transfer 2 movie files from my comp to VHS tape..how do I do this?

The file types are .mov and .avi (divx), please can you give me instructions, the hardware to get and everything, sorry if I sound demanding, but after this is done, I will be settled down, and I will do anything, I am desperate.


Please and thank you!

[Joe]

Does your video card offer TV out? If so, play in full screen on the TV, and hit reccord on the VCR. If you have the VCR hooked up directly to the computer; you lost me!

[someuser190826]

Originally posted by Joe
Does your video card offer TV out? If so, play in full screen on the TV, and hit reccord on the VCR. If you have the VCR hooked up directly to the computer; you lost me!

How do I get it from comp to tv?

[ccd1]

Your video card may have an s-video or RCA output. If it doesn't, then you could use a VGA-RCA/S-Video adapter

[someuser190826]

Uhh...I am a n00b with these things. So the stuff I need are a new video card that it can connect to vcr ?

[Joe Gronlund]

Originally posted by Arunan.S
Uhh...I am a n00b with these things. So the stuff I need are a new video card that it can connect to vcr ?

yes or a tv tuner output card.

[someuser190826]

Thanks guys!

[filburt1]

The quality will suck, though. If you can find a digital camera and your computer has firewire, export it to the camera and then from the camera to a VCR. The quality will be incredibely better than a video card's output.

[someuser190826]

I have a camera, but it is usb...and I am not sure how to xport it to camera ;-/

[NetherChris]

If your card has one of these (see attached image) you are all set.

Go to RadioShack and buy a S-Video to Composite Video adapter, then hook the composite cable up to your TV. Go to your display control panel, go to advanced and then display selection, choose dual display (if available) and then Composite TV as your selection (or something of the like). View the picture through your TV. If it works, swap the cable to your VCR, select Line-In on the VCR, then start the video and start taping. The quality shouldn't be TOO bad.

All video cards are different, and no guarantees, but if you have that port reply and i'll see what else I can do.

[filburt1]

Originally posted by NetherChris
If your card has one of these (see attached image) you are all set.

Go to RadioShack and buy a S-Video to Composite Video adapter, then hook the composite cable up to your TV. Go to your display control panel, go to advanced and then display selection, choose dual display (if available) and then Composite TV as your selection (or something of the like). View the picture through your TV. If it works, swap the cable to your VCR, select Line-In on the VCR, then start the video and start taping. The quality shouldn't be TOO bad.

All video cards are different, and no guarantees, but if you have that port reply and i'll see what else I can do.

Why would you need the S-Video > Composite adapter? It just degrades the signal unless of course the VCR/TV doesn't have S-Video which most low-end ones don't.

[NetherChris]

Originally posted by filburt1
Why would you need the S-Video > Composite adapter? It just degrades the signal unless of course the VCR/TV doesn't have S-Video which most low-end ones don't.

Well Filburt, I dont know about you but I have never in my life seen a NTSC VCR that has an s-video connector on it. Its basically pointless because of the VHS color schemes anyways.

[filburt1]

Originally posted by NetherChris
Well Filburt, I dont know about you but I have never in my life seen a NTSC VCR that has an s-video connector on it. Its basically pointless because of the VHS color schemes anyways.

I've used a few that have had them. Granted the last one I can explicitly remember is a $1500 professional deck...

[NetherChris]

Originally posted by filburt1
I've used a few that have had them. Granted the last one I can explicitly remember is a $1500 professional deck...

/me scratches head...

hmmmmmmmmm. Thats VERY odd. Unless it was S-VHS, the way it encodes colors voids the purpose of seperating the black and color channels the way s-video does. Only reason I could see it being put there was for compatibility reasons, certainly no quality benefit though..