Backing up VHS video data 8600 RCA ports

Hi all
has anyone been successful on transferring their lovely VHS home video collection via the 8600 RCA ports on back? I'm in the process of trying this but wanted feedback before attempting this. I heard it's a very long and tedious process.
Thanks
web dude

You posted a similar topic in August 2008. What results did you have, from the advice given then? You should seriously consider using a computer with a faster processor/system bus/memory for this project, to reduce the time required for analog-digital conversion. Sony makes a standalone DVD burner (DVDirect), to which a VCR or camcorder can be connected. You wouldn't have the editing options provided by computer software, but if you don't mind WYSIWYG videos, you might want to look into it.

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VHS tape video backup via RCA ports with 8600 Mac

Hi all,
Sorry if this is a repeated question but a few years ago my VCR died. I'd like to back up my old VHS videos. My question is, will buying a VCR with S-video ports give me better image quality than RCA ports? Due to the speed on the 8600, will this give me good quality?
Are there other options that will not be costly?
thanks for your help.
web dude

So this device connects via USB onto my G4 and connect the VCR to it correct?
From my reading of it, yes. But your G4 will need USB2 (after-market PCI card), not the built-in USB 1.1 ports. There's probably similar devices that work with Firewire which your computer already has, and usually Firewire is the standard for this kind of thing, but you'd have to shop around.
Does your OS on the G4 support that device?
When I did this on my G3 using the "wings" card I was restricted to a very small frame size for capture. Read the detailed specs. on that device and what it will allow.
Do you have a large, fast drive on your G4? I don't know if that device does on the fly encoding, but if it doesn't and you have to store raw files they can take up a huge amount of room (several tens of GB I seem to recall when I did this on my G3 beige).
Back up a bit. How many tapes do you have to do? Are they truly worth it? If it's movies that you can get cheap DVD equivalents in the $8 bin at a discount store then it's questionable if it's worth your time. As observed, you're not going to get great quality off tape. If you only have a few family tapes consider getting them done at a place that does this commercially. A friend just had a family video done at a place nearby and it it didn't cost too much. I didn't ask how much but it was very affordable and not as much as it would have cost me to get a similar setup going on my G4. Yes, if you're doing 20 years of home videos then it might be cheaper.
Final storage media? If you're burning to DVD then make sure you get good quality (Taiyo Yuden if possible) and make duplicates.

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I have a V5000 3 yr old Compaq Presario notebook and I am trying to connect a 4 pin S video cable (with an audio line) from the notebook s-video jack to the RCA ports on a sony digital TV. The sound comes through, but no picture. When I hit function F4 there is a flicker, but no picture on the TV.
I also tried the dual monitor in Display to no avail.
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I have an older Analog-to-Digital/Digital-to-Analog converter box I bought many years ago to do just what you describe under Windows. It has RCA and S-video in as well as firewire in, then it also has the same on the output side. This allows me to take an alaog video signal in through this boix and send it to my computer to capture using my sodftware of choice. WHen I first bought the box, I was using a Dell laptop & Vegas Video (version 4 to date it). Now I am using my MacBook Pro and iMovie (it came free with the OS X 10.7 license).
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My classic video ipod won't switch back to regular video mode after using it on an elliptical. The port still allows me to charge and works on the elliptical and treadmill but it will no longer change modes to allow me to watch my shows on the ipod screen

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From the iPod's Main Menu choose Videos -> Settings and make sure TV Out is set to Off.
Otherwise, try a hard reset as well. To do this, press and hold both the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together long enough for the Apple logo to appear.
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Hi
I've been given a large project and need some (simple) help.
Its to transfer about 40 VHS tapes onto CD,s.
Help please as How/what do I need/ is there any step by step instructions?
Thanks

Hi Nigel
First, please be clear about exactly what you need to do. You need to transfer video from VHS, but if you need to burn video to a playable disk, you need to create DVDs, not CDs (which are for audio or data only). If you're unsure about this, check with the person who gave you the project.
Next, you need a VHS video player with video outputs. It's most likely that you'll have RCA-style "composite" video, which is a yellow connector, along with red and white connectors for the audio. You may also have an S-video connector, which is a round multi-pin socket. If it's a newer VCR, you might even have component video, which is a series of three red, blue and green sockets.
The third part of the equation is getting that video into your computer. With a MacBook, you don't have any kind of video-in socket, and even if you had a Mac Pro desktop, you would still need to purchase a video capture card to get the video in.
However, Macs (except for the very newest MacBooks) all have Firewire ports, which is an industry-accepted way to import video. If you have a video generating device plugged into your Firewire port, you will be able very easily to pull it into iMovie, or Final Cut (Express or Studio). So if you can borrow/rent a device to convert the video to a Firewire signal, that's the best solution. You can use a digital camcorder that has composite video in and Firewire out (usually the most readily available solution), and any professional "video deck" will also do this for you. There are conversion boxes available, but they are quite an investment if you have to buy them.
Matt
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Converting VHS videos to DVDs

How do I use my Mac to convert old VHS video tapes to DVDs? Do I need to buy a converter of some kind? What is the process? I'd appreciate any light shone on this topic since I'm trying to preserve some family and travel videos by converting them and hopefully editing them in the process!
Thanks!

Hi
Yes You need something that converts from analog to digiatl.
• A/D-box like Canopus ADVC-55, 110 or 300
• miniDV Camera with video trough function
• miniDV Camera without - You need to copy one hour at a time to tape
(Don't use LP-function 90-min on a 60min tape - audio Will go out of Sync)
Many miniDV Cameras Don't have analog-in - in EU omitted due to tax regulations
extra cost to turn it on.
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• Have a Canopus ADVC-300
This because old VHS tapes often get's drop outs and the ADVC-300 makes it's own timecode
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You also need a SCART-plug WITH AN IN AND OUT Switch plus a RCA-Cable with three
connectors in each end. This to connect A/D-box with VHS-VCR and a 4-pin to 6-pin
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There is no way possibly I know about if You got a Mac without a FW-port 800 or 400.
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I have been trying import VHS video into iMovie via a Hollywood Dazzle bridge. I have been successful doing this in the past, but now it is not working. I have a mac book pro, 10.9.1, (mavericks), iMovie 10.0.2. Everything in iMovie looks like it is working. It reads "recording" in the upper left hand corner of the pane while the video is playing. When I stop the process to check on my clip it says that the file is empty. The only thing that has changed since I did it successfully is that I upgraded to mavericks from whatever I had previously. My system is about one year old. Any suggestions?

Hey, Clinton,
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Could someone please tell me the fastest, cheapest, simplest way to back up all my data (photos and music) thanks!

Well I am heading in to the
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I agree with BGreg about OWC, great people and service, quality products and competitive prices. Not bigbox sell cheap stuff prices but fair prices. Like him I also like cloning with SuperDuper! or CCC. For most users CCC is perfect - SuperDuper! adds some extras that techs like.
But I'll also add a vote for Apple's own TimeMachine. It is an automatic backup system that runs every hour; the first backup takes a while and the rest not very long because they are backing up only the chances made in the last hour. Due to its schema, TimeMachine is most effective with a backup drive that is 2-3 times larger than your backup set. If you are using 200GB of your 500GB drive, then your TimeMachine backup drive should be at least 400GB and preferably closer to 600GB.
The two backup schemes are different and having two different backups is a very good idea - backup drives have been known to die . The clone's advantage is that it is a bootable system disk - if your computer's drive dies you can boot with it and keep working until you get the computer repaired. If your computer's drive gets messed up you can boot with the clone and try to repair it or at least recover some of the most recent files that aren't on the clone. (Which happens to be one of the disadvantages of a clone - people tend to reclone somewhat infrequently.) Having TimeMachine means you have very recent backups.
So if you intend to keep using this computer - TimeMachine might be the better choice - or at least another consideration. If you are just grabbing data - CCC will do the trick best.

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I had my Toshiba 80G hard drive start to die on me last week, so I burned everything of importance on DVD's before sending my Powerbook G4 into the shop. When I went to re-import all the music, podcasts, and videos that I'd downloaded and purchased, the videos didn't appear.
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I'm sure it's tacky to reply to your own post of your own question, but since I resolved the issue by myself (and by accident), I thought it might be worthwhile to put the solution down in words in case anyone else actually ends up with the same problem.
The problem was solved by one or both of the following things I did:
I downloaded iTunes 7, and I downloaded the latest Quicktime (which apparently is still not good enough to look at the mac commercials on their web site <grr>). One or both of these things allowed my computer to recognize and import the videos I'd previously purchased on iTunes and backed up on a data DVD.
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Lossless storage & editing of video data.

A while back, there was a discussion about iMovie and how it used/preserved data, the statement made at the time was:
iMovie 08 (and 09) uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.
So, as someone who's life has been too busy to maintain a vigilant watch on the developments of the various flavors of iMovie that have come and gone so I apologize for asking what might have been discussed at length in other threads but I was hoping for pointers to summaries about this.
Has the integrity of the video data been fixed or has an alternative to iMovie arisen as a better choice of video editing software?
Currently using "Snow Leopard" and unable/unwilling to change version of OS.
Opinions?

Has this been fixed - NO not at all !
Thank you very much for confirming this for me!
iMovie HD6 - still works (for those lucky one to own it - as I )
Mee too! I'm very happy to have it here on my machine. It makes SUCH a difference.
Because of my previous problems (search on my name) I'm redoing all of my videos.
FinalCut Express and Pro - can deliver 100% interlaced SD-Video to iDVD (or alike) making the DVD as good as it can be.
Well, with the demise of Express, (unless I don't know where the download link is) I'm out of luck with that one. The pro, is awfully pricey for the home user. I am still poking around to see what my choices are. Y'know, I'd purchase iMovie for real money (<$150) if I could rely on it to be supported properly (i.e., not just dropped on a whim ala iDVD) but US$300 is awfully steep for half of the iMovie/iDVD solution.
I started to revist software because I'm having an issue where installing a transition in a movie caused a chunk of unknown audio to be stuck in too. I'm going over my source material now.
Thank you very much for your time and info.
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