L.L. asks from Austin, MN on December 28, 2011
Do You Transfer Your Home Vid to DVD? How?
Just got a HandyCam for Christmas and I want to know how everyone transfers to media. I do not have a DVD burner on my computer and am not really interested in buying an external, plus card reader...
...with my old Sony Cam, I could hook it to my VCR with the AV cables and simple play my video with the camera while recording the same on the VCR. I'm wondering if I get a VCR/DVD with DVD burning capability, can I hook my camera up to it (it came with AV cables) and just play the video and record the DVD, like I do with VHS? Any experience?
OR what has proven easiest for you?
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B. answers from Augusta on December 28, 2011
I've been doing this for the past few months, let me say it's more work than I thought it was. At least for what I'm doing some of the tapes I'm working with aren't in good condition and I've had to be very careful about rewinding and ffing the tapes because I've had a couple snap and I've had to splice them back together.
I have a DVD recorder and a VCR connected to each other and to a TV. Push play on VCR, hit record on the DVD -R . I don't know if it would work with a handy cam.
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J.W. answers from St. Louis on December 28, 2011
Troy said I think so, it depends on the type of inputs the DVD burner has. The one we have would do it.
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S.G. answers from Rapid City on December 29, 2011
I have a sony dvd writer that even can change them into blue ray. It was worth the money and easy to use.
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J.G. answers from Chicago on December 28, 2011
We took our old video tapes to Walgreens and/or CVS pharmacy and they did it for us for pretty reasonable prices.
R.M. answers from San Francisco on December 28, 2011
I paid to have it done.
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