VHS to digital.

[Spinynorman]

I've got a load of tapes that I would like to convert to digital. I've watched a few youtube videos on the subject (MiddlesSiggy's Digital World seems particularly useful) but I was wondering whether anybody had tried this and has any practical tips.

Cheers.

[forestfan]

Did a bunch about 10 years ago with an Elgato video capture lead. Just install the software on a PC, connect up the VCR and press play and record on the computer, as far as I remember.

[Spinynorman]

Elgato has been mentioned as being pretty good. Was the picture quality okay?

[murf]

Did a bunch about 10 years ago with an Elgato video capture lead. Just install the software on a PC, connect up the VCR and press play and record on the computer, as far as I remember.

Did much the same a similar time ago but don't recall the lead/software I bought.

Main problem was finding a VHS player that worked!

[forestfan]

Elgato has been mentioned as being pretty good. Was the picture quality okay?

Well yeah seems fine as far as you’d expect, I mean the resolution of VHS is pretty low compared to today’s HD formats anyway so guess it’s probably not going to make a huge difference one way or the other.

Have some old family clips dating back to the 1960s/70s that were originally 8mm cine I think, via VHS conversion in the 90s!