VCR to avi question

[daveleau]

Hello all and Merry Christmas (and Happy Hannuka as well)

I was at my uncles house today and my cousin showed me a video of a play he was in with Shannon Faulkner (the person who ruined my Alma Mater's all-male status). It was absolutley hilarious seeing this 250lb female dance across the stage and sing. It was a home-made video of the play.

What would I need to input this video to avi or mpeg to share it with my fellow alumni who would get a big kick out of this?

I have a:
PIII 800 @ 900
384MB SDRAM
GeForce 2 MX (Hercules) with no video out or in (other than the monitor connection of course)
I have one free PCI and one free ISA (shared together) on my BF6 Abit mobo.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also any software that would help with this would be great. It does not have to be freeware or shareware.

Thanks
Dave

[Warthog]

I'm not saying this is the only way, but I use my Pinnacle TV tuner to do that. I have to switch around the wires some so that the feed comes from the VCR instead of the tv. The quality is pretty good, along with the audio. You can get this for around $70-80.

Warthog

[RLT65]

I have a $49 WinTV card that in my opinion makes good quality AVI's. I just hook the camcorder into the input jacks on my VCR, it's that easy. I have made MPEG's of the best parts of my favourite movies. I would suggest not using AVI's because they are giant files. I compress the AVI's into MPEG's which still have good audio/video quality, but are MUCH smaller in size.

Rhonda

[NDC]

At what resolution would you like to convert the video tapes to MPG or AVI format?

[daveleau]

Low resolution would be ok cuz I am going to email the mpeg or avi.

I have a USB WinTV by Hauppauge but have given up trying to use it b/c I cannot get sound to work. I can try that if I have not tossed it. I RMA'd it and they sent me a new one...still didn't work...

Thanks
Dave

[RLT65]

I had troubles with sound while creating avi files with my WINTV card. Believe it or not, the only problem was my line in was muted! I was looking around in advanced audio properties & noticed that line in was not there, so I checked the line in box & then seen for some odd reason that it was muted. I un-muted & now all is well.

Rhonda