In the age of high technology, few people use video recorders. However, almost everyone has tapes that contain various recordings that are important to their owner. As you know, over time, video quality deteriorates. Therefore, if these records are valuable to you, then they should be digitized. In this article, you will learn how to transfer a video cassette to a computer.
Of course, you can also turn to specialists who will do everything for you, but the fact is that the digitization of videos is now expensive. If you have a lot of records that need to be digitized, you will have to pay a large sum for this. But why spend money if you can find out how to record from a video tape to disk completely free?
For this procedure we will need:
1. A computer with the Windows operating system. Not only that, you should know that it must meet certain requirements. A regular office computer is not suitable for the task you set.
2. Before dubbing the video cassette to a computer, you will need to purchase a TV tuner if you did not have one before. Compared with the prices for digitization, the tuner is not so expensive - up to 1000 rubles. Installing the device is not difficult. The TV tuner looks like a regular board. To install it, you need to open the cover of the system unit (before turning it off), insert the board into the desired slot, and fix it. After that, you will need to install the drivers for the equipment. It should also be noted that some TV tuners work through a USB interface.
3. Knowing how to transfer from a video cassette to a disk or any other medium, you must take care of other equipment - a VCR or camcorder. It all depends on what kind of video tape you are going to digitize.
4. Before dubbing a video tape to a computer, make sure that you have installed a program designed to edit or record video. Windows Movie Maker, Movavi, Cyberlink Power Director and others are suitable for this task.
5. Adapters from the TV tuner. Usually they are sold complete with the latter.
So, having acquired all of the above, you can begin to digitize the recordings from the video tape.
After installing the TV tuner, you must connect to the last video recorder or camera through adapters. After that, you need to run one of the installed programs. First, in the video editor, you need to set the video capture parameters : sound parameters, color depth, frame rate, etc. Before dubbing a video cassette to a computer, it is recommended to find out the meaning of certain parameters so that the quality of digitization is the highest.
After that, you need to start the player (VCR or camera) and the editor on the computer. Digitization begins. During recording, it is not recommended to run any other programs on the computer and use them.
After recording is complete, be sure to save the file. You can also edit the resulting video in accordance with the capabilities of the program that you used.