Video Question

[rainbowdemon]

I want to transfer a video from my hard drive to a standard VHS video tape. Does anybody know how to do this? Is it even possible? Thanks!!

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[method77]

do you have a tv out?

[Shawn]

Yep, methos beat me to it. A video card with a coaxial out will be easiest.

If you have a composite cable out, you can still hook it to most vcr's, but you'll have to get an additional cable to transfer the sound.

If you don't have a video card with any sort of 'out' at all, then you're boogered.

[rainbowdemon]

No coax. But there are two unused jacks. One has a mic symbol. I don't know what the other is.

[method77]

if you don't have a tv out then no. Those jacks are not for that. Those are for speakers and mics. You can take your camcorder and record the video while playing it on the pc. Cool?

methos?

[rainbowdemon]

Like this.

[Shawn]

A laptop?

No, if that's accurate, you can't transfer by the methods we meant.

Does it have usb? If it does there are devices that you can buy (@ $70 U.S.) that will do the same thing as standalone units. If you don't have usb, you're really looking bent over.

[rainbowdemon]

A laptop?

No, if that's accurate, you can't transfer by the methods we meant.

Does it have usb? If it does there are devices that you can buy (@ $70 U.S.) that will do the same thing as standalone units. If you don't have usb, you're really looking bent over.

Not a laptop. It's a Dell Dimension. It has 4 usb ports. This is beginning to be more trouble than it's worth.

[Shawn]

Not really. If it's a desktop with usb, you can go either way. You can get the standalone I mentioned, or you can get a video card with tv-out installed. Either one will work, the video card providing the additional perk of pumping video to your tv as well. If you get a killer clip you want to watch on tv, string out a cable and turn up your speakers.

That use to be my set up, and to be honest I found it worked fine.

[rainbowdemon]

That sounds workable. And I get to buy a new toy to do it. Thanks, bud!! Got some real nice music vids that would be real nice on a bigger screen.