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Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: RedDg on September 07, 2003, 10:49:06 PM

howdy all,

I'm putting together the "About the Artist" of my upcoming web site.  I've got some footage from a VHS tape that I would like to grab some still-images.  How?  My vid card is a Radeon 9700 Pro, but I don't have a DVD-ROM drive so getting the tape made into DVD is not an option.

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: AHGOD on September 07, 2003, 10:55:41 PM

They got a new VHS to DVD recorder on the market but that isnt the cheapway to go.

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: Tarmac on September 07, 2003, 11:14:31 PM

If your vid card has video in, it should have come with video a video capture utility (at least mine did).  Seems like you'd be able to hook that up to your VCR and digitally record it from that.  

There are also video transfer places that can do stuff like that.

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: ALF on September 08, 2003, 07:23:22 PM

On a side not, a VHS 'screenshot' is going to look like crap on a PC.....real bad crap.  There are some peices of software (one of the tv recorder programs like Sage or similar) that do a reasonable job at cleaning up the TV signal in stills.

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: RedDg on September 08, 2003, 09:31:24 PM

Thanks for the suggestions.  In the end I went with a cheap solution that still gives a good enough image (for me anyway).

I just paused the tape and took a shot with my 5 year old digital camera.

 (http://www.x-plane.org/users/reddog56th/Joel_F-16_320.jpg)

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: Strange on September 09, 2003, 07:26:54 AM

Umm Red shouldn't ye be painting instead of play'n in that F-16??

Title: Need help getting image from VHS to web page
Post by: Maniac on September 09, 2003, 07:29:50 AM

Djust use an digital camera or digital camera recorder...