Video Transfer Tools For The Do-It-Yourselfer

While there are many professional VHS to DVD transfer services available to the public many people, especially those operating on small budgets, look for ways to preserve their old home movies without the high cost sometimes associated with such services. The good news is that there are plenty of tools available on the market that allow the layperson to transfer their VHS movies over DVD and in some cases even Blu-Ray.

While VCR's are almost impossible to find and buy, professionals recommend against utilizing an old VHS cassette player for transfer purposes because old players that haven't been maintained can easily chew and/or snap the tape inside a VHS cassette rendering it unplayable. Instead, professionals recommend that individuals who want to handle transfers themselves purchase specially made VCR's that connect directly to a computer usually via a USB port. Not only are these VHS players new which reduces the likelihood of a chewing or breaking but there also capable of much higher quality playback than are old machines.

Many direct to PC VCR's are sometimes sold with both hardware and software that allows an individual to improve the audio and video quality of their old home movies. Many of the software programs included with the VCR's also allow video to be upscaled and smoothed out so that playback on modern television sets doesn't look so bad.

Once individuals have purchased these special VCR's and have captured their old home movies to their hard drives the software included in these packages allows them to author DVDs and even Blu-Ray's. The software usually allows people to break up the video into chapters, name chapters, and even apply pictures to chapters to help identify them. Additionally individuals are usually given the opportunity to create unique title sequences as well which can include video, music and even still images.

Once the DVD has been authored it can be burned to disc rather quickly. Once old home movies have been placed onto DVDs individuals can discard their old VHS cassettes without worry of rot or decay as DVD discs are built to last several lifetimes. Also important to note is the fact that DVD storage requires far less space and care than does VHS cassettes and VCR's. Individuals worried that the DVD format may go the way of the dodo like the VHS format did need not worry. This is because although the technology is included individuals don't have to burn anything to DVD, it can be left on their hard drives for immediate access any time.

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