Hey everyone that knows more than I. I have a big question how to I get media from a vcr or the like to my computer. I know you are gonna ask what kind of junk I have so here is what I know.
I have a Saphire Radeon 9200 SE, it has an svideo port on the back but I don’t know how exactly that will work.
Anyways any info would help.
From the specs I saw on your card it doesn’t have TV in (not many cards do nowadays). So the video card can’t do video capture.
There are a variety of other ways to capture video and get it on a PC.
There are USB devices that will capture video like the ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0. There are others like it. Just make sure that it is a USB 2 device and can handle the bandwidth of quality video capture. Read reviews to find out which ones are good and which are not.
Some DV camcorders can pass-through analog video, convert it to DV, and send it to your computer. Or some can record to DV tape from an analog input. Then transfer the DV video to the computer.
Record the VCR tape to a set-top DVD recorder. Then rip the DVD on the computer to extract the video. A DVD recorder is just like a VCR except it records to DVD-R disks.
There are also businesses that will transfer VCR video to computer video. I don’t know the cost for that kind of service.
Is there perhaps an RCA to USB cord? I ask all this because I have a pretty good mini vhs camera on loan from the school the only problem of course is I can’t put any of the stuff onto my computer with it at the moment. Still I remember an old friend of mine used to be able to hook up his camera to his computer through a series of cables, unfortunatly I don’t know what cables he used and I have lost touch with him.
An RCA to USB cord would be something like the ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 that I mentioned.
Does the mini VHS camera do digital? I don’t think they do. You need an analog to digital conversion in the process somewhere to get the video on the computer. Somewhere along in the process you need a device that does the analog to digital conversion (video capture). That device could be a digital camcorder, the ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0, a DVD recorder, or a video capture card in the computer.