Transferring music cassettes and VHS video to CD and/or DVD?

[Maxie]

A couple of friends have asked me (talk of the blind trying to lead the blind!) if it's easily possible to transfer music cassettes and VHS video to CD and/or DVD. I found loads of places willing to do transfers for large fees but I'd imagine there are fairly inexpensive programs that will make it easy enough to accomplish this at home? I did find http://www.polderbits.com/ which appears to do what they want. If anyone knows of this software would they please rate it for me or alternatively recommend some better software etc? Thank you. Maxie

[chaosmaker]

There are a couple I use to make transfers, for my cassette tapes and old vinyl I use Pyro 2003 by cakewalk, it can be as simple as plugging a sony walkman into the line in on your sound card, just saying how simple it is, I have an amp hooked to mine. and then Luckily my 9700 Pro AIW has the ability and hardware to connect a vhs video recorder to my computer, from there I can use the ATI software, Or my preference of Pinnacle studio 8, they also make a hardware solution as does Dazzle, so this should give you some starting points. I have put it simple for now.

[Maxie]

Excellent Chaosmaker! Thank you for such a swift response. I'll pass the information on. Maxie

[Magik]

I did this for a mate I transferred 18 tracks of a cassette and digitally remastered them. After this I cut each track and saved them as wav files, than made an audio CD and it worked great. Shame I took all me own hardware and software to his house did all the work and never got a thanxs for it. Once you have digitally remastered a tape to cd it becomes a natural inbuilt function, you never forget. Before I helped an ungratefull so called mate, it was back in 1996 when I picked up on this and thats almost 10 years ago Greetz Intercept.....

[Maxie]

Hi Intercept! It sounds complicated but, as Dreamland is just a couple of miles south of Brighton & Hove why don't you pop round and show me the ropes? There's nothing like having a master to teach you instead of muddling around in the dark. I'll try and lay on the tea and biscuits as you seem to have a long memory! Maxie PS I'm glad you live in Dreamland and not Neverland.

[videoman45]

If one has a large MPG file on the harddrive, is it possible to burn it to a DVD that will play in a home DVD player? It would be neat to archive my home movies to DVD but I don't have a clue where to start to get a DVD that will play. Can anyone give me any advice? Thanks, videoman45

[SirQUK]

Has this is MPEG based, ive moved it to the right forum. In answer to your question videoman, yes you can.. You can try a freeware product called dvd2svcd ( www.dvd2svcd.org ). or simply search our products pages for plenty of software that can do it for you:)

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