VHS to DVD conversion

[SurpriseSlayer1]

So I have a ton of VHS tapes that I want to convert to DVD. Does anyone have any idea how to make this process as fast as possible. I am not going to take them to a professional transfer place. I bought an elgato converter to convert vhs to digital. Is there any way I can do multiple tapes at once? Cost is no problem. I just want a way to convert them all as fast as I can, whether its buying another VCR and Elgato converter, etc. Thanks!

 

[rontonomo]

I did this not so long ago with all my old family videos, and it was pretty easy. I bought a video capture card from microcenter for around $100 and was able to use an old vrc i had laying around to play the tapes and record them on my pc. It was fairly easy and i found a lot of good videos on youtube about how to set up the capture card. I hooked the vcr to the pc with s-video and rca to 3.5 audio.
Here is the device i used hope this helps.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/402347/WinTV-HVR-1265_Internal_PCIe_HDTV_Tuner_Card

 

[skeptikaltruth]

Honestly, unless you have the right equipment, a professional transfer place would be the best bet (not like Costco or CVS but an actual production studio that does the work in-house.) A high quality DVD recorder should be used. Never use the combo decks; their terrible.

Doing them through the computer, you often have to worry about dropped frames, rastor issues, and especially tracking issues which can confuse a lot of software. Also, colors are not always accurate.

No matter how you do it, the tapes will need to be done real time. Not like a 2-hour DVD that can take 10 minutes. A 2 hour VHS will take 2 hours, plus the additional set-up and conversion times.