Mini VHS to Digital

[Krarl]

Okay so my mrs has a lot of childhood VHS and Mini VHS that she wants digitising

Wondered if anyone has ACTUALLY DONE IT THEMSELVES NOT PAID SOMEONE

I'm fairly handy with most s**t but I'd rather not screw up her old tapes with her mum and dad on them (they're both dead so these are quite sentimental)

I have my old HDPVR and Dazzle from years ago when I used to play COD competitively (proper battery I know), im guessing it would be as easy as just banging these inline with a VHS player and then stick the output into the Dazzle and record onto my PC.

Is there a simpler way of doing this without having to use a wanky old inline digital recorder?

Cheers all

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

They used to do kits. It was something to put the tape in and it would just copy to the PC's dvd.
We threw one out recently unfortunately when we were having a covid clear out. Not sure if it would even work now as I think it was windows 2000/vista compatible 😂

Pretty sure you'll find something on eBay though?
Good luck.

 

[Krarl]

Aye there's a few game captures using scart still knocking about so its always an option. I just can't be arsed watching through 50 tapes and making sure they're all recording properly🤣🤣

 

[Jack!]

Given they're so valuable, why even try? I'd just pay the people with the expertise and take no risk.

Plus you'd probably get a better quality conversion?

 

[Ray Gin]

Unsure on this. Couldn’t even guess TBH.

 

[MarkCup]

I used something from Roxio to digitise a load of old tapes I had.

IIRC or was a scart lead to FireWire or something like that plus the software, so had to run everything through our old VCR.

 

[MarkCup]

Here you go, I used a version of this about a decade ago;

Roxio Easy VHS to DVD

Quickly convert VHS tapes to DVD or digital to preserve memories and give new life to your movies. Trim and cut video clips, stabilize shaky footage, improve color balance and more – right at home!

www.roxio.com

 

[Krarl]

Because the experts can't guarantee they won't be damaged when they spin them up and at £20-£30 a tape theyre not exactly cheap

Plus they'd be sending a CD for each tape rather than just a file because they seem to live in 2003 and not 2020

I might seem daft but I'm not, I can assure you

I used something from Roxio to digitise a load of old tapes I had.

IIRC or was a scart lead to FireWire or something like that plus the software, so had to run everything through our old VCR.

Roxio, Jesus now that seems like f**king ages ago since I heard that🤣 I'm sure I had NXT 5 on my last PC that had a DVD drive ripping my mates dodgy CD's😂

 

[R3k1355]

Surely the only way to capture analogue format is to use a digital device that records the analogue stream.

Basically what you have right now.

 

[Krarl]

Surely the only way to capture analogue format is to use a digital device that records the analogue stream.

Basically what you have right now.

Wasn't sure if there was something automated but thinking about it I'll likely have to sit and watch through hours of my mrs at 4 years old opening a barbie every single b*****d year🙄