Author Topic: Need help getting image from VHS to web page (Read 267 times)

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.

AHGOD · « **Reply #1 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.

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 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.

ALF · « **Reply #3 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.

RedDg · « **Reply #4 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.

Strange · « **Reply #5 on:** September 09, 2003, 07:26:54 AM »

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

Maniac · « **Reply #6 on:** September 09, 2003, 07:29:50 AM »

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