ripping vhs to dvd question

dtokez · 28 Mar 2009 at 21:45

hi all, jus hooked up a usb video input thingy that has come with ulead videostudio se. seems to work fine and i did a short test recording but it was about 2gb for about 5 mins lol. theres a few different compression formats and settings to select but im not sure which would be the best? can anyone advise on a good one to rip them at?

thanks in advance

dtokez · 29 Mar 2009 at 23:52

can anyone lend some advice?

the file for a 10 min video was 2 gb so i compressed it with windows movie maker but it was very poor quality and it went out of sync with the audio

Sumanji · 30 Mar 2009 at 00:39

Hey man,

I tried this years back, but had the same problems as you (audio sync and quality issues). In the end, dad just bought a Samsung VHS & DVD recorder and just used copy mode between the two. Quality could be better, but effort is minimal

Sorry if that's not helpful, but it's the easiest way to go about it!

Cheers,

Suman

lord filbuster · 30 Mar 2009 at 00:42

mpeg2 at about 4000kbps should be good enough, makes it easier to back it up to a dvd too. If you just want to keep it on your pc, xvid, divx or h264 are all pretty good, 2000kbps should be enough for all of these codecs. Both of these should get about 1 or 2GB per hour, depending on the video. I don't know which codecs video studio supports, but if it is a couple of years old, i suspect mpeg2 is the best choice.

SourChipmunk · 30 Mar 2009 at 01:31

Does your current software support compression on the fly? I have a Honestech USB capture device that brings in the video well, but has to record in an AVI format and be compressed afterwards. Yeah, I'm looking at 60GB rips initially. I then convert to mpeg-4and get it down to a reasonable DVD scale.

dtokez · 30 Mar 2009 at 02:18

thanks all for your response's. i think there are a few options of an output format but im not certain. i will have another play about when i get on the pc and report my progress

dtokez · 30 Mar 2009 at 16:46

is there any better software to use, i think the usb device could be used with something else and i dont really like this ulead one?

cheers!

SexyGreyFox · 30 Mar 2009 at 16:59

Sumanji said:
In the end, dad just bought a Samsung VHS & DVD recorder and just used copy mode between the two.

I tried everything several years ago but it didn't beat recording to a DVD recorder but they cost me £500 years ago.
I now transfer to a Pioneer DVD/HD machine, do all my editing on that and then transfer to the PC if I need to.

dtokez · 30 Mar 2009 at 17:27

thanks mate, i wana try and avoid buying more hardware due to lack of funds and space if possible though hmmmmmmm