How to copy a videotape to a computer

Videotapes once have served the people, but now much more convenient and safer to store records in digital form. Advantages of the translated records from the films in the computer files are obvious, and separately we dwell on it will not. And move straight to the point - how to record a video tape to a computer.

Three things that need to transfer the video from analog to digital media: computer, video recorder, TV-tuner or video capture card. With the first and second clear, we consider the more third element. TV-tuner - view of a television receiver that displays the image on a computer screen from the outside. In other words, if you connect it to your VCR and your computer at the same time, the PC monitor will play the role of the TV and the screen you will see a video recording. To date, the role of a TV-tuner may perform video capture card - miniature device based on the USB-stick. The key point of these devices - the presence of "tulip" connectors through which can combine computer equipment and the VCR.

Turn on your computer, connect it to our TV-tuner or capture card. Insert the connectors "tulip" to the corresponding socket audio and video outputs on your VCR. Mix them, as a rule, it is impossible for connectors and sockets are marked in different colors. When you connect should be easy to find a matching pair. Prepare the desired videotape to be played. It would be nice before the procedure to clean the head reproducing mechanism on the analog video unit. Recording it, or simply played, the values \u200b\u200bfor the work has not.

Now we need another component to digitize analog recordings - special software. For TV-tuners, it comes included in the total, and working with, you can use the card to grab one of the many developments on this subject - movavi, virtualdub, oCam video recorder. In our example, this would AverTV 6. Run the program on your PC and turn on the video playback on the player. In the window running the program should be the image coming from the tape. In this mode, press the "Record" button in the interface of the program, and digitization begins.

Initially, the picture may not be clear. To eliminate blur right click on a video, and marching by finding the "Channel Settings", trying alternately to set different playback modes, while the clarity we are not satisfied. In other programs, this function can be framed a little differently, but the general principle is the same for all tools, you only need to look carefully the appropriate configuration options.

After recording, click Stop button, and in a special program folder or in a separate file that you specify will be the place that contains all that he had lost the VCR. Our tape is copied to the computer. Rename the file is the correct name, if one is not already done, and move it to a convenient storage location.

While working on digitization, become acquainted with the program more closely, you can add special effects, subtitles, voice memos. Can completely rewire account on your discretion, burn to a CD or USB-stick. But most importantly - your video archive is no longer in danger of falling apart with age and decay.