Slightly OT: Anyone know how to transcribe Michigan VHS tapes to dvd
Just a quick question to all of you technofiles out there. I own hundreds of hours of vhs tape footage of Michigan basketball, football, Detroit Tiger baseball and Detroit Pistons basketball. I am in the process of converting this footage to dvd's, and I am wondering if there is any way to extend the length of a regular dvd (approximately 2.5 hours). For example, I have the entire 1993 NCAA 6 game run of the Fab 5 on two vhs tapes (Coastal Carolina, UCLA, GW and Temple) on one tape, and Kentucky and North Carolina on the 2nd tape. I would like to know how to fit these games on as few dvds as possible. Any suggestions?
Depending on what method youre using, you could compress the video files.
What method are you using to convert the vhs tapes?
He might have some idea on how to do this. I was wondering the same as my dad has lots of Michigan football games on tape, he is wanting to throw them out, but I was hoping maybe to convert them.
I don't know what process you're using, but if you're making digital copies to put on the DVDs, you could also consider putting them on Blu-Ray, as a Blu-Ray disc holds around 23 hours of SD footage and a Blu-Ray burner costs <$100 these days.
I bought a machine that transfers the vhs tapes directly to my computer, where they can be edited, music added, etc. I then use Windows 7 dvd maker to convert them to dvd.
What you should do is either use some sort of compressing software or import them into Imovie or windows movie maker and export them as a different file. Eg. instead of exporting at full size you make it for Youtube (a setting in imovie). You'd have to play around with it to make sure you're getting good video quality still but you have to compress it to a smaller video file. Since I doubt you have Final cut stuio on your computer to use the compression tools, I belive if you get a Mac using idvd will automatically compress the video for you to fit on a standard DVD.
Here is a link, one of many, on how to make the conversion.
I've been doing this lately with my families vhs home movies from when I was little. Once I got them to my computer I've been using Avidemux to compress the files, and have reduced the final number of DVDs I'll need by about 40%. It took me a little bit to get the hang of it, but its a free program, and if you don't know how to do something with it, you can easily find it via googling.
March 17th, 2011 at 10:53 PM ^
Might as well leave them in VHS.
March 18th, 2011 at 11:27 AM ^