Connecting up the ADVC-55 external DV converter to your PC and VCR is fairly straightforward. First, connect up either composite video RCA Phono or S-Video socket, and twin RCA Phono audio connectors ... ... at one end of the Canpous … [Continue reading]
The specific product we're going to use in this tutorial is effectively a combination of Canopus's high-quality ADVC-55 analogue-to-DV converter and the company's Let's CONVERT software bundle, marketed as an easy-to-use, one-step solution to … [Continue reading]
Whichever video capture hardware you're going to use, the better the quality of the analogue video input the better the results you can expect to achieve. To this end it's wise to weigh up if there are settings you can make on your VCR … [Continue reading]
There are a number of important hardware factors when transferring your VCR to digital video. For most people a balance needs to be struck when buying PC hardware for any purpose, compromising somewhere between performance and cost. On … [Continue reading]
The transfer of a video cassette recording to DVD involves the capture and digitisation of the analogue video, editing the digitised video as necessary and compressing this prior to burning it to DVD. There are various methods of … [Continue reading]
Transferring a VHS tape to a DVD sounds like something hard to do but in reality it's not. It's basically taking what is on tape and converting it to a digital file that can be burned onto a DVD or any media source for backup and preservation … [Continue reading]
Having now gone through the VHS video to DVD tutorial, you'll have transferred your video tapes to DVD and want to give your new digitised collection a professional look. You can do with with DVD labelling software, which is generally bundled … [Continue reading]
If you record an entire side of an LP at a time, you're likely to want to subsequently divide the recording up into discrete tracks and to individually name each track. Audacity allows this to be achieved in a couple of different ways. One … [Continue reading]
Audacity includes many built-in effects and also lets you use plug-in effects. In general, the way these are applied is to simply select part or all of the tracks you want to modify, and select the desired effect from the menu. For the … [Continue reading]
Software to facilitate the digitalisation of analogue music is increasingly widely available. The Windows Sound Recorder is not suitable, since it doesn't allow for recording of more than 60 seconds. The application we're going to use in this … [Continue reading]