Transfer video tapes to DVD using multi function DVD burner
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2019
- Generations of old home movies, 35mm slides, VHS video tape, mini DV tapes and more were produced from the 1950's thru the year 2000.
Before this is all lost or discarded it should be transferred to the digital media. I am producing a series of TH-cam video's to show how this is can be done.
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It’s great to see McCloud again. He looks like he’s doing good.
Hey Thanks, I'm thankful to be here ill be 80 in April.
Thank you for your dementration I could not of done it without your presentation. Thank you
You're welcome
Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. Wheeler!! I purchased a DVDirect recorder years ago and seldom used it. Your video reminded me to find it! Recently, my sister brought me a box full of old VHS tapes full of family memories. Our dad passed away in 2004 and we can't wait to get these on to DVD's to watch them and reminisce about our time with him! Hugs to you, my friend!
G Phillips, Thanks for your comment!
Thank you for your video! Because of your video, I just found out this is the best way to transfer my old VHS tapes to DVD. So I bought a second hand Sony DVD burner to start the work. I am following your steps. Thank you so much!
Thank You!
Great video, exactly what I was looking for. I bought one of these for a christmas present and wanted to know how to use it ahead of time. Thank you!
Very helpful video with step-by-step instructions. Now for the grueling task of transferring 70 plus old VHSC and Mini DV tapes to DVD. Thanks for this video.
Jeff, are you making progress with your transfers?
Thanks so much for this video. It helped out so much. I am now transferring old home videos to dvds.
Crisah, Thank You very much for your comment!
This was so helpful! thank you :) Merry Christmas!
Very helpful video sir! I've been using a set top DVD recorder, but this looks much more simple for archiving those VHS and 8mm tapes
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this excellent tutorial. I picked one of these up from a thrift store for 4 dollars. It even has the power supply! Can't wait to try it out.
You are a good shopper!
Hello Anthony thank you for the help sir im a great big fan of your youtube channel whenever i need some help ill always watch your videos finaly a channel where it makes sense and demonstrated thank you again sir your a life saver!!!!!
Jason Wood, Thanks very much for the encouragement!
Thank you for the informative video. I just got the similar model Sony VRD-MC6 off eBay to transfer my vhs-c home movies to dvd. I didn't even know this machine existed until recently but it works great!
Good to know!
Thank you! I have one of these machines and was missing the finalizing step😀
Thank You for sharing...that was so very helpful to me. God Bless!
Tracy Quackenbush, Thank You very much!
Very Helpful ! Thank You so much for recording this video!!
Glad it was helpful!
This was extremely helpful to me, Sir! Thank you so very much! Bless you!
Harleesco, thank you very much!
Thank you, Mr. Wheeler! Very helpful video!
Mike Milnarik, Thank YOU!
THANKKKKKK YOUUUUU FOR TEACHING TO WORK WITH THIS MACHINE WHICH I ALREADY HAVE IT
Useful tips. Thanks a lot for making this video.
Think You!
Thank you so much! Very helpful!
Susie R, Thanks for your reply!
Hi Anthony your fan David from England very good and interesting video love that little machine looks great
Dave david jacklin, David from England, thank you for your positive comment on my TH-cam video. That little machine has done a lot of transfers for me over the years!
Glad to see you using a 4-head Hifi as your playback machine. When transferring VHS, it's important to have the best possible playback device. Personally I use a JVC S-VHS deck, even for standard VHS tapes. The VRD-MC5 looks much more portable than any of the outboard DVD Records in my setup with the built in LCD screen. You mentioned that the VRD-MC5 has no audio, but does it have a headphone jack or line output so audio can be monitored? Aside from composite, what other inputs does the VRD-MC5 offer? I have Digital 8 and MiniDV with Firewire, as well as S-VHS with S-Video. Does this unit disable recording when dubbing commercial VHS tapes encoded with Macrovision?
ThriftyAV, The VRD-MC5 has no head phone jack, no line output. Other inputs include s-video, firewire, and USB. I only us the VRD-MC5 to transfer home video, there is nothing on commercial VHS tapes that I could think of that I would ever want to copy.
@@dahdigital1 Thank you for your prompt response. The inability to monitor audio is a disappointment, but it is nice that S-Video and Firewire are included. I occasionally back up commercial VHS recordings when they lack re-release on DVD or other modern formats. But most VHS tapes that fit this criteria do not have Macrovision, as this was implemented by major studios and video distributors. All five of my DVD recorders prevent recording when Macrovision is detected, so it is likely that this Sony would too.
Yes! JVC S-VHS with TBC (Time Base Corrector) is the best VCR to use, as the TBC magically improves the tape content. I am gonna buy one of these from ebay, AND soon I will go to ebay and buy a decent JVC S-VHS VCR with TBC. I have dozens of old VHS tapes to copy over. As for recording Hollywood movies from VHS to DVD, you would need to buy a device that disables the Macrovision. There is one on ebay called the RXII Video Stabilizer, which disables the Macrovision on VHS movies.
Thank you so much!
Thank youuu so much ❤️ u saved me 💕💕
Glad it helped!
I had no idea a DVD-R had to be formatted. Anyway, I will buy one of these soon. I must also go on ebay and buy a VCR! I will get a JVC S-VHS with a TBC. Thanks so much for sharing your video!
Honestly for me it has been a while but I don't think I had to format my Verbatim DVD-R disk.
Thank you!
Thank you
thank you much
Thank you for making this video. I have dug our machine just like this now that we are stuck home from Covid 19. Can you tell me if this machine can convert from my vcr tapes to digital instead of dvd?
maryann eggleston, no, I got out my Manuel and looked to be sure, It appears that it only records to DVD. It also will copy digital media photos from various media cards to DVD. You can, if you have the computer software, copy the digital media from a DVD to your computer.
You're a Kentucky boy to. I'm from Harlan county.
James Runions, Yes, I'm a Kentucky boy and proud to be! Eastern Ky. Ashland
Could you please inform me of the other unit you said does the same job as the sony thanks Gordon
So grateful for your videos. But I can't quite understand the dubbing or process. If I am transferring vhs to dvd what do I do before hitting the dubbing button?
Deborah Lee, good question. Sounds like I need to make a TH-cam video showing the process!?
Is the recorded video deinterlaced if you do it this way?
I found my problem - did not have burner set on SP. Another question though - can the burner be paused and other vhs tapes inserted as long as the 120 minutes are not exceeded? Thanks for your prompt reply to m e previous question. Am really enjoying your videos and plan to use them in transferring vhs from cameras.
Voy Gillentine, yes, stop the recording, put the other vhs tape in and start recording again.
what format this device can record if I wanted to use memory cards as a source for the videos and what capacity I should use? thanks a lot
RCjam0, the multi function DVD burner will only recognize digital still images from the SD card slot or other slots on the side of the multi function burner. Can only take in video from the video inputs on the the opposite side.
With a T120 VHS tape, what quality should you use on a 120 minute DVD? Does it matter? I would like to get the whole VHS on one DVD, but it seems to say FULL DISK before the whole VHS tape gets copied.
Hello Anthony how is the video quality when you ply back the Dvd's?
Tony Arellano, I started with one of the earliest consumer video cameras 1982 and moved up over the years as newer camcorders came out. I ended up with so many Video tapes I was just glad to get them all finally transferred to DVD. Besides, all of that was standard definition. So for me quality didn't come into play until Hi Defention digital recording. It worked for me and helped me get all my transfer jobs done.
Thank you so much for making this video. Because of you, I ordered one off Ebay, I can't wait till it comes so I can copy all my old VHS tapes over to DVD'S.. if I can ask, what blank cds should I get ? Which ones did you use ? Thank you!
I mostly used the Verbatim DVD-R i found to be very reliable!
Thank you!
Anthony, I started my project of converting family movies on VHS-C to Dvd. I did the first tape which was 30 minutes as a test and all went well. I finalized the DVD and watched it to make sure it recorded and it was a success. On my next DVD, I did 2 tapes and then during the third one it told me the DVD was full. I did the finalizing process and the machine says finalizing for an hour and a half. Is that normal? I think I will go to bed and see if it finalizes. I did not do the tapes at one sitting and turned off the DVDirect for a few days before I returned to my project. Do you think that affected the machine. Maybe I need to complete and finish a DVD in one sitting. I have been recording and stopping the DVDirect so I can edit the tapes when transferring. I would appreciate any tips or insight into my process. Thank you.
Sandi Rewalt, Yes I believe turning the unit off before completing all your work would probably not be good. But sounds like you got it going. Best wishes
Can the vrd MC3 do the same thing?
Hello Mr. Wheeler!
I was so excited to see your video and searched eBay and bought the same exact dvd combo burner that you have!
I am having trouble with the dvds freezing and sometimes a jumpy view even though the tape is playing smoothly in vcr and clear on the tv! And I am viewing freshly burnt dvds on my brand new dvd player and this has happened to everyone of my dvds ! I have the dvd burner set on SP ... is there some other setting that I have failed to do?
Any advice will be most welcomed as I have spent alot of money on dvd-r that have been ruined!
Thank you so much!
Sincerely,
Debbie
Debbie Boyer, do you have other connection wires to see if that works?
@@dahdigital1 Thank you for answering my question so quickly and with a Good idea! I will buy another set soon and try that! I will let you know if it worked, also, I do have my tv hooked up to the vcr , I noticed that you don't have yours hooked up, I will disconnect it and see if that makes a difference too! :)
Hi Mr. Wheeler,
I bought brand new connection wires and that did seem to take care of the jumping when recording, however, now the dvd burner will not finalize the dvds. I think I may need to return this to the person that I bought it from on eBay!
Do you have anymore ideas to troubleshoot this issue?
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Debbie Boyer
could you please let me know this dvd burner detail I would like to buy one please
Are you able to edit with this unit? Can you hit the record button, turn it off and then record again once the content is something you want to record? Thank you. Very informative. I am thinking of starting to do a number of tapes. You give me encouragement.
Sandi Rewalt, If you mean by edit , can you stop recording and fast forward or just play forward to a new location and start recording again than, yes.
Hi are you talking about if it has a pause button so it's a smooth transferring of video to DVD recording? I think it might be too jittery if you had to stop it and press record all over again. I think a pause button would be great for this.. thanks for the great explanation of this unit thank you
I have a SONY VRD-VC30 DVD Recorder and I use a VCR to play the VHS tapes. I don't see any picture of what is on the tape showing on this player screen like yours does. I don't see any way to make it do that. I am assuming it just doesn't do it that way.
Hi Anthony Evey time i try to finalize my dvd from my Sony VRD MC5 it won't finalize. i'm going from a VHS recorder to the sony player.
Its say's somthing about a memory card. I watched you video on it and it was helpful but it just won't finalize.
If you have any suggestions i'd appreciate it.
Thanks Jeff Huff
I bought one of these and made a dvd on HQ but didn’t get 8 min of the tape so I went to make another one to get the last 8 min but after I formatted it and recorded then finalized, it was a blue screen when I played it on my computer and the first time it worked. Do you have any suggestions because I was so grateful to have found your wonderful way of copying my vhs tapes to dvd. Thank you
I honestly don't remember having to format the DVD but yes to finalizing
If you put a blank cd in it can it record music on a blank cd.Can i get a clean sound if i record music on a vcr tape ???
drrobotnikmeanbeanma, I just tried cd into the multi function display, says, not compatable. Recording on vcr tape or other media, see how you like it, I prefer to record to the digital media.
Great video everything proven people are buying VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies VCR belts offline from there phone now days plus myself
Thanks for sharing
I am not having any sound on my finished DVD. My VHS recorder only has two color coded outs......yellow and white. I do not have the red one plugged in. Is that why I am not getting any sound???
Susan Rosenthal, watch my TH-cam video -th-cam.com/video/I1KQjQIGrBI/w-d-xo.html - Hope this answers your question.
Hi Anthony, I am capturing 16mm movies at 24FPS on a Canon Vixia HV40 camcorder. Can the Sony VRD-MC6 use the 24FPS video from my
camcorder to produce the NTSC 29.97 FPS? Thanks. John K.
John Knudsen, I don't know what to tell you about that, I would just do trial and error until you get something workable.
Is that all waw how do I get the Dvd player? Anyone knows plz
M device says waiting for input signal when trying to transfer VHS to DVD- I see the video images shown in the tutorial but I have yet to get the Sony product to recognize the signal from my Panasonic VHS player
Amie Oliver, you must select the correct connection from the menu options.
Anthony Wheeler thanks for your response. I finally found a solution on another forum. If the Sony recorder isn’t showing the VHS video in its “viewer” it’s not recording it- and the solution that resolved my issue was to press the on-off button for the Sony converter continually for 30 seconds! This remedied it! I’ve converted several VHS tapes to DVD since, then use Handbrake to convert them to mpg format so I can share them via TH-cam. One has to look far and wide to find answers for older technology! I have had this tool for years, never used it bc of this glitch and only NOW found the solution because Covid gave me time and incentive to do the research. That is at least one silver lining from this very strange time:) Your demo was very helpful in confirming I had set it up properly- so thanks!
Hola necesito la piesa entonces va el disco del quemador vrd.mc5 si lo tendra
I have a similar Sony model. I want to use it to record tv programs off my tv. however, The signal is never recognized. Any suggestions anybody?
The shows may be copy protected. You would need a device such as a GREX to connect between the tv and recorder...
Did all you said - the video in playback of the DVD on computer or DVD player comes out SKINNY in the middle of the screen (all Distorted) I have used this about 5 yrs ago and it was fine.
Am i putting in a wrong way of taping. Am i hitting something wrong!!!!! I am using a VCR player that works GREAT no problem in viewing.
Tiffiny Gerhardt, you may need to set up perimeters in the computer such as aspect ratio. The old stuff is usually 4 by 3 aspect ratio. New stuff in 16 by 9.
What to do when every dvd disc reads undiscoverable???
equipment failure, sounds like.
What kind of DVDs do u use?
The DVD i use the Verbatim DVD-R
Hi Mr. Wheeler!
I had to return my Sony Dvd Combo Burner to person off of ebay. I had changed the connection wires with brand new ones but then the dvd would not finalize!
You wouldn't happen to know of another one (that works) that is for sale would you?
I keep searching ebay and amazon hoping to find a replacement with no luck! :(
Thank you!
Debbie
Debbie Boyer, I have seen other brand of this on television sales channels.
VHS to DVD
HI I HAVE DVD RECODER SONY RDR GX210 BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO RECORD FROM VCR PLEASE TEACH ME
janes, I am not familiar with other brands, sorry I can't help.
Where can I purchase a DVD recorder?
Jim Gardner, similar multi function DVD recorders I have seen on Amazon, and I believe on the TV shopping channel. I don't remember which channel, its been some time ago I saw the channel. I have not seen these in any stores for years.
Good question
Why am I having problem of getting only 1 hour on a DVD+R 120 min. (2 hour) using the multi function burner?
Voy Gillentine, perhaps you are inadvertently finalizing the DVD
Because check your record mode u got it on make sure u have ut on sp mode
Is there a way to add Titles to the DVD
Joe Floersheimer, yes, please watch my TH-cam video " simple editing using combo recorder to transfer VHS to DVD.
Joe Floersheimer, sorry, that was wrong information. I don't have a video to do that on the multi function DVD burner. I haven't done that with the multi function DVD burner.
I just got one of these and I just can’t figure out why my DVDs don’t have any sound
Kinzi Loyd, If it records picture and no sound I would suspect faulty wires connecting audio.
i tried this after buying one. the results were NOT good. I couldn't even watch it. I wonder what types of software would help improve things, or even a piece of hardware.
suggest, go back and test everything. test the combo recorder will it play back other dvd's that you know do work. and so just test and double check.
Hi, pls how I can get one I'm from saudia Arabia, I'f possible in Amazon's? And how much the price , thanks
The multi function dvd burner in my TH-cam video is no longer sold, that I know of. I have seen another brand multi function dvd burner on the TV channels that sell product. Not recently however, it was a long time ago.
I am writing to you from Azerbaijan. How can I order this product? Do you have a link?
This hasten been available from Sony for a few years. Suggest look on Ebay.
How do i buy this tool
Go on line and so a search.
I want to buy it . Pls help !
kishore soneji, on your computer search for - multi function dvd burner. ebay shows up many times, but I assume these are used.
I horribly wanted one when I was 10 yrs old.
CEzik Maj, Hope its not too late now!
GOT MY UNIT FOR 40 POUNDS
Hope your multi function DVD burner serves you well
hi sir
Vhs tapes more free whiching in your house now days
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Perhaps you should stress that you cannot transfer commercial vhs owing to copy protection...
Yes that's a good point!
The black ones are better because it it record to dvd+r and dvd-r this unit only record to dvd+r which is sucks