VHS to DVD advice

[Gingerbread]

I know there are a bunch of services who offer to transfer home movies to DVD. I've never used any and most of them seem pretty pricey. I have a VHS of recorded television not home video that I think I'd like to redo. I've transferred it to DVD once before but it was about 15 years ago. I'd like to try to do it again and see if I can create a better quality transfer. The way I did it back then was via my camcorder. I could connect it to the VCR and play the tape while it transferred it to the camcorder tape. Then that could be connected to my computer and turned into files. It was a round-about way but this was 15 years ago. The VHS in question is a full 8 hour? tape of recorded specials and commercials from the early 80's. It was well worn and started making some background noise. At the time I made the DVDs I ran the audio through some software I had at the time to try to clean up the background "fuzz", it was okay but not great. I made a set of 4 DVDs containing all the specials on the tape with about 3-4 specials per DVD with a cute menu. Anyway, I'd like to try to redo this project and was wondering if anyone had any method or advice, software they recommend, etc? I'm wondering if I can get them to come out in any better quality since it's been over a decade.

 

[Tak]

I know there are a bunch of services who offer to transfer home movies to DVD. I've never used any and most of them seem pretty pricey. I have a VHS of recorded television not home video that I think I'd like to redo. I've transferred it to DVD once before but it was about 15 years ago. I'd like to try to do it again and see if I can create a better quality transfer. The way I did it back then was via my camcorder. I could connect it to the VCR and play the tape while it transferred it to the camcorder tape. Then that could be connected to my computer and turned into files. It was a round-about way but this was 15 years ago. The VHS in question is a full 8 hour? tape of recorded specials and commercials from the early 80's. It was well worn and started making some background noise. At the time I made the DVDs I ran the audio through some software I had at the time to try to clean up the background "fuzz", it was okay but not great. I made a set of 4 DVDs containing all the specials on the tape with about 3-4 specials per DVD with a cute menu. Anyway, I'd like to try to redo this project and was wondering if anyone had any method or advice, software they recommend, etc? I'm wondering if I can get them to come out in any better quality since it's been over a decade.

I'll ask my dad how they did it, and it's not dvd, but my parents scanned all their vhs onto their Apple tv device. They had hundreds of movies recorded off of hbo. Now all the files are digital media. They could burn it onto a dvd, technically, but I don't know about copyright laws and what would be infringing on them.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

There’s a post on the Lost Media Wiki forums about tape transferring. Not sure how much help it would be to you, but you can find it here:

A short guide on ripping tapes. | Forums - The Lost Media Wiki

Since a lot of Lost Media is found through old tapes, I figured we should have a guide on transfering the contents of tapes to a video file for those that are completely foreign to the concept. War

forums.lostmediawiki.com

They could burn it onto a dvd, technically, but I don't know about copyright laws and what would be infringing on them.

I think it would only be infringing on copyright if they were to sell it.

 

[Tak]

There’s a post on the Lost Media Wiki forums about tape transferring. Not sure how much help it would be to you, but you can find it here:

A short guide on ripping tapes. | Forums - The Lost Media Wiki

Since a lot of Lost Media is found through old tapes, I figured we should have a guide on transfering the contents of tapes to a video file for those that are completely foreign to the concept. War

forums.lostmediawiki.com

I think it would only be infringing on copyright if they were to sell it.

Ditto. As far as I know, it's not infringement if there's no profit... at least that's how my brother explained it. My parents have the original star wars trilogy (before they remastered and added cg) on their digital cloud now. I was so happy my girl got to see the original so the kids at school won't tease her anymore.

 

[Uftaki]

There’s a post on the Lost Media Wiki forums about tape transferring. Not sure how much help it would be to you, but you can find it here:

A short guide on ripping tapes. | Forums - The Lost Media Wiki

Since a lot of Lost Media is found through old tapes, I figured we should have a guide on transfering the contents of tapes to a video file for those that are completely foreign to the concept. War

forums.lostmediawiki.com

I think it would only be infringing on copyright if they were to sell it.

Thank you for that link! I'm also curious about transferring over some of my old VHS tapes to DVD or digital format, so this looks like a good place to start.