Transfer from VHS to DVD

My first question - anybody direct me how I can transfer home VHS tape to DVD? Thanks for your help. mike4teer

Hi
You have to convert the analog material on Your VHS tapes to digital format. This
one can do with an analog/bigital converting box. I use a Canopus ADVC-300 but there
are cheeper ones.
Or if You have a miniDV Camera You can either copy to tape on this or if it has
the function "Video through" it can work as a video bridge between the VCR and Your
Mac.
After this I import my VHS tapes to iMovie. Cut away what I don't need. Close iMovie
and drop or import the movie icon into iDVD.
Yours Bengt W

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Another option is to download the free app MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 here:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
After loading the DVD on your Mac, drag the icon onto Streamclip's window. From the menu choose File>Export to QuickTime then for Compression select the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC). Adjust the quality slider from 50% to about 75% - that should give good quality at a reasonable file size. Leave other settings as they are and click on Make Movie. From the next box, choose a name for the file (it will be a .mov file) and a save location (say Desktop).
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Note that you may be asked to instal a file from Apple. It's named QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Mac OS X. It's priced at US$19.99 and is available from the US Apple Store here:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A?
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I have a few VHS tapes and DVDs with some music tracks I want to make into MP3's. I have a 12" powerbook with microphone jack. What is the easiest way that will yeild really good quality?

Michelle and Randy:
For a DVD - put it in the Computer and use Audio Hijack to capture the sound and record it to mp3 or aiff or whatever format you choose.
You can read about Audio Hijack here: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
The VHS is more complicated but as you're only hoping to life the music as opposed to the video: Run a mini-jack (1/8th) cable from the headphone output on your VCR to the line-in on your Mac.
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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I think this is a long shot, but you guys always seem to know a lot more than I do about these things, so I thought I'd ask. . .
I'd like to create a station that allows me to take a VHS tape, enter some stock information into the system--such as Family Name, Date and "Summer Vacation"--then have it sent through a pre-set theme in DSP, burn to DVD and print a standard label on the DVD. I'd like to be able to do multiple transfers at one time and want the entire process automated so I can work on other projects while this is happening. I wouldn't mind investing in multiple iMacs and other licenses for FCS to do this, but I'd like to automate this process as much as possible. Does anyone have any ideas about what other software/hardware arrangements I could use to accomplish this using DSP and my Macs?
If not, any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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I'm bringing in VHS material through a JVC deck with firewire out. The source video then goes to someone else to be edited, then to DVD through iDVD or VisualHub. I'm recording through QTPro, and I would like to export that recording as the smallest possible file (H.264?) before sending it out (so I can fit it on a smaller external drive or even fileshare it). Since the file will be compressed by VisualHub or iDVD, will giving either of those programs an H.264 file look terrible in the end? Does the file always have to be compressed as mpeg-2 to go to DVD? Are there no mp4 vob methods?
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Your post is marked as "Solved" so I assume you've found the answer to your problem.
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I saved my edited movies by exporting them to my digital camcorder and then exporting them to video tape. I have imported the movies back from the video tape into the camcorder and from there back onto my computer into whats called an iMovie Project. When I attempt to burn a DVD disk I get a message which says the disk I burn will be a copy that can be played on my computer but not on a DVD player.
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913334
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/845731
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3234794
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