How to transfer VHS tapes in 2024 - Save your Home Movies!

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[@ventues9751]

I have been transferring all the tapes to DVD for 4 years now. I found a vhs to dvd machine at goodwill over 4 years ago for $ 10.00 !! It works fine and I have been having a blast with it !!!

[@maxwitzker7722]

Why don't you show what Software and Settings you use 🤔

[@jessejames586]

I run the output of the VCR into a dv camcorder that passes the data out through a firewire connector and into my computer as digital video.

[@kehi6608]

Hi, I was wanting to get in contact for some tape digitization but it appears your website is down. Do you have any other contact info? Thanks

[@RockTo11]

How do you clean the tapes?

[@kennylauderdale_en]

You should probably put a time base corrector somewhere in the chain

[@TheMediaHoarder]

Can anyone recommend a good affordable TBC? I’ve been looking for one for a while but can’t find any, at least for an affordable price (under $1000).

[@RyansRetroVerse]

I have a few inside my house that I've tracked down from flea markets and antique stores. It seems like ebay has gotten real expensive lately.

[@RockTo11]

@@TheMediaHoarder I have a JVC HR-S6970 VCR which has a time based corrector built-in. I think many S-VHS VCRs have TBC.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

@@RockTo11 The only S-VHS machine I have is play-only. I have a D-VHS also which I just use for the prerecorded movies made for that format, tried running stuff through that once and didn’t seem to make any difference.

[@duncanmacleod2136]

@@RockTo11I think he means a frame TBC.

[@paulhaken7726]

i been working with vhs and svhs for 35 years, , i would never use a cheap tape rewinder,,, to hard on the tape as most of them dont have slow down feature that vcrs have, and could damage tape or stretch it at beginning and end etc.

[@The.One.True.B]

I got a Blockbuster one on eBay I figured it would be safe to use, it was about 30 bucks

[@TTVEaGMXde]

The Recorder of the still Image and the Videograbber can be used SEMIprofessionally.

[@UdreamWeprint]

I wouldn't mind a to expensive course. I'm looking into digitizing vhs tapes as a side hustle. But doing it properly.

[@duncanmacleod2136]

I Have a restored Pannasonic 1980p ag and a Datavideo TBC 3000 frame TBC with proc amp. The Pannasonic has a line TBC that corrects geometric distortions them the Datavideo TBC prevents timing errors. The built in proc amp let’s me adjust levels before it is digitized because once it’s digitized that’s baked in. When you go from the YUY2 color space to RGB you get clipping if you’re colors aren’t within the legal limits. Also you want to digitize to a losslessly compressed codec. Digitizing to a lossy codec is a bad idea. You have to be careful buying gear also. You really want refurbished gear. eBay is risky.

[@soundbeast4957]

Actually, NOT ALL adapters are the same, I have a Dazzle DVC100 and a EasyCAPture and both do not work and I cant find the new firmware anywhere, both of their websites have dead links...so knowing the set up would be amazing. The cable, the RCA adapter, the program. I don't let other folks transfer my stuff.

[@ziffelpig9249]

I want to know what the spray clorox is used for?

[@kingforaday8725]

To copy a video tape its gonna take real time to copy it. If the video tape is 30 minutes long its gonna take 30 minutes to copy it, not including prep time of course. This brings up a question. If you go back to when movies were originally being copied to video tape how was that done? Did it take two hours to make a copy or did they have high speed tape copy machines and do these still exist?

[@paulhaken7726]

was always real time to copy vhs and beta

[@CantankerousDave]

Nope, it was always realtime, even in bulk duplication houses for commercial releases.

[@joshuapowell1868]

eBay has away people are buying VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies more offline now days and VCR players are 50 dollars and vhs tapes 10 dollars everything proven people don't have to get out of there house now days everything proven people like myself are buying them offline now days

[@ventues9751]

I still have 10 working VHS players !! I would buy them at 2nd hand stores for like $ 4.00 each !!!

[@joshuapowell1868]

Your video is the best

[@joshuapowell1868]

People like you don't think right vhs tapes last longer then your computer does people like myself done that before not doing it again am keeping my vhs tapes an whiching them

[@joshuapowell1868]

To keep vhs tapes VCR players now days don't listen to other people now days listen to yourself now days everything proven

[@joshuapowell1868]

Everything is proven people like myself are cleaning out mode switches in VCR players everything proven people keep there mode switch clean out like they should people will never have playing problem's with there VCR players everything proven online how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player if you don't know what a mode switch is

[@joshuapowell1868]

People like myself will never get rid of my vhs tapes y they don't stop playing at all everything proven people like myself are fixing broken vhs tapes with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's no more updates on everything else now days

[@davidhenderson7722]

As a vhs collector I can relate to this. The tapes are very old now and been stored in the loft still play fine to this day. Vhs beat dvd and blu ray in my eyes 😁

[@The.One.True.B]

How do I fix a tape with a bad area across basically the whole thing? It moves a bit but mostly stays as a garbled line near the bottom. The audio being crunchy is especially annoying, I’d love to fix it. Other tapes are fine so I know it’s not my transfer setup.

[@joshuapowell1868]

😊 vhs tapes not going away it's the people who is going away from it everything proven online on eBay and Amazon now days

[@joshuapowell1868]

Broken vhs tapes is fixbel with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's look it up online how to fix a broken vhs tape

[@SOLiDNiTROGENv8]

How would I go about doing this with PAL/SECAM tapes in the USA?

[@TheMediaHoarder]

You would need a VCR that can play PAL and SECAM, most capturing software will work with them.

[@RockTo11]

I did that exact thing. I have a JVC HR-S6970, which also supports S-VHS and S-VHS ET. (apparently, even with non-S-VHS tapes, using the SVideo cable gives an uplift in quality over the regular composite cable)

[@JOBT0]

S-VHS player anyone? I need one chipped to Sweden, so best in Europe.