VHS transfer to DVD using combo recorder

hello today I want to show you how to quick and easily transfer your old VHS tapes to DVD first of all you will need a VHS DVD combo recorder now these are very common there in most retail stores there's various brands of them and they're quite similar or they're all available online now what you do want to make sure is that if you go into a retail store and you see one of these it has a place for the VHS tapes in a place for DVDs that it says recorder because you might find one in there that's just a player and it might look very similar to so you don't want to get just a player you have to have AV VHS DVD combo recorder now all recording is done inside the machine so you don't have to worry about wiring it up to do the recording it's all done inside the machine but you you will need to send an output signal to your TV or you can use a small TV like this you can use oh a big flat-screen TV most of the combo recorders have outputs that were working it we're going to use a simple what they call a line out with RCA wires and we will hook the wires into the output now you'll have to be sure that you're hooking the wires into the output because there's a lot of connections on the back so you'll find audio out and video out now these are color coded so that makes it simple it will match so you plug in the yellow which will be the video signal and your right and left audio now again remember you're you're not cooking up the wires that are going to make this transfer you're just hooking up to your TV so that you can see what you what the picture is going to look and what about the props that it will tell you when you're doing a recording okay so in this case we're going to hook up to a small TV and we're going to hook up in the front here we have a video and in this case we've only got one audio connection but that's okay again just so that we know that the audio is recording we can turn it up and down it won't have any effect on what's being recorded in the recorder okay so we'll turn on the VCR combo machine and turn on the TV now in many cases you may have to select the input by just pushing on the control to input so that you have the input which would be the signal from the combo recorder okay now you'll need one of your older tapes now this is a VHS tape that our family has recorded look like in the 90s now what I found hasn't been rebound so what you'll need to do is number one if it has the security tab that keeps it from being recorded over you need to pull that security tab out break it off so that there's no danger of you hitting a button any time and recording over something you don't want to then I simply place the VHS tape in the machine and rewind the tape okay put it in and rewind the tape and you'll see it start the counter as soon as it sees picture will start counting down in numbers and and they're gonna be - in this case now what we're going to do is we're going to rewind this tape all the way to the beginning and then we're going to fast-forward it to the end now the reason why we need to do that is because simply we don't know how long the tape is is it a two-hour tape was it a three-hour for our 6-iron and they even made some agar tapes and the DVDs currently now these machines and most any machine you buy will will record on DVD at different speeds there's standard play there's LP playing there's extended now standard play there is the quality that that most people would want long play the quality goes down very slightly and I don't have any hesitation on recording into long play extensive play I would not record in generally of course your standard play is two hours and your long play is generally four hours and some machines very some may have some two and a half hour increments or even three hour increments but just don't go to extended play to record when we've rewound the tape all the way the beginning we need to hit the Clear button on the controller which will set the counter to all zeros then we need to then want to fast-forward it to the end of the tape now this seems like an extra effort but believe me it save me learning this step has saved me a lot of headaches and not knowing when this is going to end and in the disk run out of space and then you knew you've got to start all over or if you want the whole program intact or you've got to just put another disk in at the very least but if you know what you're starting with then you could set you a record time to match what's on the tape that means your DVD will have everything that's on that tape on that DVD okay the counter has stopped at two hours and 56 seconds so we know we have give or take 56 seconds a two-hour tape and most combo recorders will well even if the 2 hour speed will allow another minute or two so so we're in good shape to record at standard play speed for the DVD now what we need to do and this sounds like it's it's a nuisance in a way but we're going to need to rewrite rewind the tape back again to zero and then we're ready to start the transfer now that the tape has rewound all the way to the beginning and the counter is set to zero zero zero zero and we know now that we have a two hour and 56 second tape video tape which will fit on to a two hour DVD because it all my experience has shown that they'll record a minute or two or up to three minutes over so we're in good shape there now if it had gone to ten minutes over then we would need to change the record speed through to either to get that all on one DVD now what we need to do is since we know we have a two-hour tape we'll take the controller for the VCR and we'll set the record mode it's been in the VCR mode it's actually switched to the VCR mode as soon as you put the V VHS tape in and it three wounds at several times now we need to switch the combo unit into the DVD mode which is either on your controller here or on the button right on the front so and it says VCR a little lopsided now it's gone to the DVD mode now in the DVD mode we set the record speed what we have to do is in the DVD mode we put we put the DVD and you will need a blank DVD a DVD plus R or minus R will work in most most DVD combo recording units okay well put that in the DVD side and let's a DVD recorder recognize the DVD and you will see it's loading and it will tell you you'll give you a signal when it's come through loading and actually ready to record on we're going to take the remote control and set the record time that this DVD will record on and we pointed at the DVD combo unit and we have a HD mode or HQ mode which is high quality then we also have an SP mode which is the standard play mode your standard record mode we have we have an sp2 and a two-and-a-half-hour mode we have an LP mode three honours we have an EP mode for ours and we have a super long play mode which is six hours which I do not recommend ok we're going to set this to the SP mode now all we do is what we'll switch back to the VCR we switch back to the VCR either on the control unit or on the machine we just hit the button on the machine now you need to play your tape until you see a picture on the screen hit stop so you are ready right now to do your recording then you just hit the button that says dubbing dubbing most of these controllers will have a recording button and a dubbing button you don't want to hit just a record button because it thinks it just wants to record and I want to know what the source is if your dubbing it will know that's dubbing is recording from the VCR tape to the DVD so we'll go ahead and hit the dubbing button and it will start to record well now you have two hours to record it will stop automatically at the end because the DVD will be full and your tape will be finished and then you'll be ready for the next step and we're going to just go ahead and record and we'll come back for the next step after your DVD recording is complete you'll see a screen like this you would be able to play the DVD on the machine is recorded on from this point however this is the biggest mistake that most people make people will play this DVD at this point and it will look perfect it will play perfectly on this machine but they do not realize they have not finalized the DVD and the only time they realize it is when they take it to play on a different machine and it will not play so what you need to do at this point is to finalize the DVD it's just a couple of steps you need to go into the setup menu and you need to scroll down to in this case on this machine it will say edit disc and it will then say will scroll down to the word finalize and then we'll scroll to yes yes and that completes the process so after you have gone through the finalization the finalizing phase of preparing your DVD it is now ready to be played on any DVD player and it should play on any player there is

Channel: Anthony Wheeler

Views: 1,497,961

Keywords: VHS, transfer, to, DVD

Id: Au1JOnQ8lK4

Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 12 2011