This is even more time-consuming and means you will also need video editing software and, ideally, the most powerful PC you can afford. The alternative is to save them to your hard drive and then either trim or edit them before burning them to DVD or, possibly, not. It’s time-consuming because the tapes have to be played in real time, but it does the job. The simplest way to copy VHS tapes is just to dump them to DVD.
The cheapest lead I’d risk is the August VGB100 External Video Editing Card (£12.25), but that only seems to convert videos to MPEG format.īefore buying a converter, check to see if you need a SCART-to-RCA phono plug adapter. Unlike many cheap video capture leads, this is sold and supported by ClimaxDigital UK, based in Durham. If you want to spend less, then I’d try a ClimaxDigital VCAP lead such as the VCAP800 (£19.99). This is on a par with the well-established Elgato Video Capture lead (£72.71), which is regarded as one of the best of its type. Sorting .uk results by the Average Customer Review score suggests the Video-2-PC DIY Video Capture Kit is worth a go at £33.95 because 93 of its 107 reviews give it 4 or 5 stars. Unfortunately, most of them have not been reviewed, and I have no idea which is best. There seem to be dozens of these, at prices from about £6 to almost £150, and professional products can cost even more. You want to do the conversion with a PC, so you are looking for another device like your “cheap video capture lead,” which includes an analogue-to-digital video converter of the sort built in to combo player-recorders. Check the back of your VHS player for output sockets. SCART supports several different types of video (composite, component and S-Video) so you might manage with a SCART conversion cable. I’d guess that your VCR has a SCART socket, in which case, a 21-pin SCART cable would do the job. However, following the arrival of Freeview, modern recorders are going all-digital, and you will need one that accepts an analogue video input. The alternative, which is almost as simple, is to plug your best VHS player into a DVD Recorder or PVR (Personal Video Recorder). The stock is aging and getting more unreliable every year. If you want to follow their example, sooner is better. I assume a lot of people bought these machines to copy their VHS tapes and then sold them when they’d done the job. The drawback is that most of these machines record using DivX or MPEG-2 rather than MP4, but if you really needed to transcode them, you could do that on a PC. These models were discontinued in 20 respectively. It could be a bit harder to pick a new one, but .uk has a new Toshiba DVR20 Digital DVD Recorder and VCR with Freeview for £287.48 or a Toshiba RDXV60 3-in-1 for £550. There were lots of combo players around a decade or so ago, and you can pick up a second-hand models on Amazon or eBay for anything from about £45 to £200.
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