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Our ol' HF300 gave up the ghost years ago and we just picked up an HF400 Superbeta on ebay, so I want to transfer all our recorded tapes to hard drive/DVD. Our son has been dying to see all those old Dr Who episodes we taped for our progeny, the couldn't play when he was interested. I don't really want to buy a stand-alone DVD recorder, I've been using our PC (to generate region-free DVDs of the new Dr Who and League of Gentlemen)
I'll need to get a video capture card and I assume some type of video editing software (no idea what's out there yet).thanks for any help (I will be checking over at avsforum too).
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Circuit City had (expired except for $20 manuf. rebate now) $10 off and 2 $20 rebates for the $99.99 card, so I went for it.
Working fine as a TV tuner now, Betamax is FedEx'ing it's way to us now.
I liked the fact that this card has hardware MPEG-2 encoding.
Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 90While you're there, check out the Pinnacle site for numerous recording programs, especially Studio 9 and Studio Plus.
Good: Hauppauge WinTV-PCI with composite/SVHS inThough, I suppose you're beta deck doesn't have SVHS outputs, the SVHS connector is a late 80's development. (SVHS has nothing to do with VHS, by the way.)
Best: Osprey video capture card
A tad expensive, no TV tuner, but a really good quality capture card designed for videoconferencing. The basic models can be had for around $100 on eBay.
Use the software that comes with the card for video capture, usually ULead or something like that.
Nero Burning ROM is the nicest integrated suite for doing this kind of thing I've used. It's got video capture software, encoding software, and will burn video DVD's.
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thanks, I haven't had time to look at Nero yet (we have 6.something).
I also got a reply on avsforum that pointed me to a forum on doom9.net that deals with this very question, perhaps a bit TOO extensively for some!thanks again, Dr Dave
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