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VHS to DVD over 3 hours per tape?
Hi,
I need to convert 14 VHS tapes to DVD for a client. They are over 3 hours on each tape.
Are there DVDs that will hold 4 hours of footage?
What is the cheapest, more time effective and best quality way of converting them?
Only have FCP (no VCR or DVD recorder – apart from on the Mac).
Kind regards,
Olly Lawer
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2 Replies
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If someone put more than 2 hours on a VHS tape quality probably wasn’t their biggest concern.
Putting more than 2 hours of video on a DVD-5 will only result in quality loss but you could get it on a dual-layer disc.
Some players are picky about how well they will consistently play DL DVD-+R media. Unless the computer drive is recent a lot of drives can have issues with DL media.
You could also author and build the DVD non-DL in DSP and have Toast compress it to fit on the DVD-5.
I would consider buying a DVD-R recorder. It will save you a ton of compression time and many potential headaches. Medium quality ones aren’t that expensive.
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Sony DVD Recorder….it has a 3-hour and even up to 6 hour record to a regular DVD. 3 hour encode actually looks pretty good and you don’t have to tie up an edit bay.
Send the S-video signal from the VHS to the recorder and let ‘er rip.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com
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