home videos to dvd?

sammyw

Hi, we rediscovered our family home videos and want to put them onto dvd. Trouble is, some of them are really jumpy - the sound is good but the visual is all over the place on some of them. A couple of tapes are fine though. Is there a way of rescuing them before trying to copy them onto dvd? Will playing them on a different vhs player make them work better? The videos are about 8 years old, so not ancient - yet lol.

A friend of mine is lending us a dvd recorder, I am assuming that we can link up the video and record from that? Has anyone else done this? If so, any advice? I really don't want to lose these clips.

Thanks

sammyw

Has anyone done this?

mymatebob

Do you have the option to adjust the tracking on your video player?

I have an old machine which lets me do this and a newer one which doesn't so worth looking

sammyw

Thanks for your reply!
It auto tracks and theres no function to do it manually. Might have a look at everyone elses vhs players to see if i can get them to play better.

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sammyw wrote: »

Has anyone done this?

Yes. The sound wasn't great and nor was the picture quality when I did it via scart lead from VHS. Use the best quality copy rate (I used long play when I first tried it as back then blank DVDs were 10x the price they are now! That would no doubt explain the disappointing quality)

I got better results using an all-in-one VHS+DVD recorder. If they are precious VHS tapes it might be worth investing in one of those as you will want the best quality you can get, but try it with your friends recorder first.

Remember to 'finalise' the discs when you've finished (read the manual on how to do this) or they won't play on any other DVD player - only the one they were recorded on.