VHS to DVD converter

Transferring data from VHS to DVD support

In the past VHS support was used as universal video data support. However, the new digital era and bits storage was changed the point of view in the video information storage. A lot of people want to edit their own videos. With the VHS support this thing is almost impossible. However, the best solution is to edit videos from digital support, as DVD’s for example.
If you have old VHS with interesting movies and you want to move the data from VHS to DVD you must know how to proceed. The VHS is analog support. You must convert analog signal to digital info and to burn that converted data to DVD support.

What hardware you need for conversion?

When you capture or convert analog signal into digital data, the process is similar with VHS tapes copying. You must transfer the signal from VHS video player to your video capture card or other computer ports. Usually for this type of transfer is used USB port or fireware connector instead. The transfer is made from wires, off course.
Usually camcorders have ports and wires connectors easy to plug into the computer ports. The connection process is described by camcorder / video players producers.

PC hardware used for VHS DVD conversion

Usually editing of video information requires a lot of hardware resources. If your computer is very old, the VHS to DVD conversion will be impossible to perform. You need a good processor for this task. A 3GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM is a minimum of hardware resources if you want good results.
The process is relative simple. Videos are transferred from video source directly into computer. The data are stored into a buffer zone, at the computer hard disk. For this task you need a empty space on the Windows partition (we assuming you use Windows OS). A minimum of space estimated by us is about 100GB free on the hard drive.

Software used for moving data

After the transfer of info from the analog support you must move the salved data to a DVD support. You must use good DVD burner software for this task. We recommend you Nero Multimedia Suite 2010 or Roxio Creator for this task. Of course, you must have a DVD burner connected at your computer.
Video capturing of data cannot be done without a video capture card able to convert VHS info DVD. However a good VHS to DVD converter can be done with a good video capture card. A lot of computers have this video card installed as default. If you don’t have installed this piece of hardware, you can use an external capture device. This gadget let the signal from video source to be transferred at the computer with the conversion into DVD included.
The second solution is using of graphic video cards able to capture videos on the fly. This is the best solution, because is cheaper and the VHS to DVD conversion is very well done with this type of device.

Video editing programs recommended

If you need to perform VHS data conversion into DVD you need good video editing software. We tested for this review a lot of programs. However, our recommendations as VHS to DVD converter are Cyberlink PowerDirector. However, another solution for this type of conversion is Corel VideoStudio. This software is able to perform with success this type of task.
With this short tutorial you’ll be able to know to use and to put in practical a VHS to DVD converter from your computer, at home.