Video Tape

Feb 11, 2012



Video Tape
How do you load videos from a video tape recorder camera to a computer and save them?

I can load videos from a digital camera and save them but I don’t know how to load videos from a video tape recorder camera and save them.

The newest camcorders record directly to hard drives, DVDs or memory cards. For those all you need to do is hook up a USB cable and copy the files. The previous generation of cameras used “digital tape”. Usually these cameras connect to your computer through Firewire or USB. And before that were cameras that used ordinary VHS tapes or mini-VHS tapes. To connect one of those cameras your computer would need a video capture card with composite inputs (yellow, red and white AV connectors)

For any of the tape based cameras, digital or VHS, you will need a program that can do video capture, editing, and DVD authoring. Adobe Premiere Elements and Pinnacle Studio are popular – sometimes they even come packaged with the capture card hardware for your computer. Generally, you connect your camera or VCR to the computer, play the tape and the software converts it to a computer file as the tape is playing. Then you can do any editing you might want to do, like cutting things out or adding titles. When you are finished with that, the software will process the video and you can burn it to DVD, upload it to YouTube or whatever. Depending on how powerful your computer is, the amount of time the software needs to process the video can take hours.

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