Hello you devoted fans!! As a departure from my artistic endeavours, I hereby present you with a picture of the final day of my six-month-long task of transferring all my VHS material onto the two columns of DVDs that you see on the left. The volume comparison is obvious. Nothing on this planet has given me more grief than magnetic tape!! Whether in the form of VHS cassettes, Audio cassettes or Reel to Reel. I'm sure glad to get rid of this lot!! My VHS recorder has now been mothballed and put into storage. Until next time......Keep watching this space!! My repertoire is endless!!!
posted by Chapasnel at 7:32 PM
17 Comments:
OMG! Look at how much space you've saved (assuming you're getting rid of the tapes).
How did you transfer the content from your VHS to DVD?
10:00 AM
This is unbelievable! and it took six months? Wish I could transfer my VHS movies to DVD, unfortunately i'm useless at things like that
10:03 AM
Yikes! six months.....how often were you doing the transfers?
10:04 AM
I did this exact thing about a year ago. 235 videos onto dvd, can't remember exactly how long it took me, but I do remember the good feeling I got when I was done. Though I did feel a bit weird getting rid of my VHS :o(
10:07 AM
Like you JUST BOB, I too was sick of magnetic tape and decided to take the plunge into the next generation of storage....good on ya!
10:15 AM
I think i'm going to create my own blog, so I can do what you're doing.
As soon as I figure out how to that is. Then I can put my pictures and stories up there.
10:19 AM
Jason, I'm definitely getting rid of those tapes!! With the coupling of a Scart cable between the DVD recorder and the VHS recorder, I did all my transfers this way. But it wasn't all straightforward dubbing. Most of the material also required editing, and that is what took so long. Glitches, Blizzards and Creases are VHS's most irritating gifts!!! These I had to omit as neatly as possible so that they wouldn't appear on the DVD.
4:15 PM
Yes Marva, six months!! And as I explained to Jason, it was no picnic!!! As long as those mentioned imperfections are not dubbed into the blank DVD, you will not see them again. Video tapes have got the irritating habit of showing you imperfections that a previous playing never showed. Thank goodnes that with DVD, you will always see exactly what you recorded no matter how many times you play them. Fortunately, as an artist, I can tackle this laborious task that many out there would be put off from even starting!! Now I can finally put my feet up and enjoy the fruits of my labour!! Cheers Marva.
4:24 PM
Colin, this massive dubbing undertaking took an average of six hours a day. Cheers.
4:32 PM
Derek, the last thing I intend to feel towards those tapes is weird!! But bliss, relief and overall ecstasy is definitely what I am presently feeling as I write this!! Long live DVDs!!!
4:36 PM
So you saved the VHS to a DVD HDD first then you transferred to DVD? Is this right, or was it straight from VHS to DVD dubbing.
If you did the latter it must've been very time consuming to stop the recording of DVD to get rid of the bad VHS parts!!!!
4:45 PM
Yes Marva, thousands out there have their own Blogs, so why shouldn't you? I wait for that day. Bye.
4:45 PM
So!!! you're an Artist! interesting.
4:46 PM
Yes Tim, sickness is only one of the things that tapes provide you with. The others are depression, melancholy and anger......and that's even before you switch on!!!! I bet that the plunge that you mention never made you regret it!! I don't intend to regret it either, believe me!! Cheers.
4:51 PM
Yes Jason, first I transferred the VHS material onto HDD, and this can be very time consuming if, as very frequently happens, you encounter a blizzard, or any other glitch when your movie is halfway or nearly coming to the end of the recording, which means you need to start the recording all over again and hope that those aforementioned irritations don't appear. Supervision of the entire material is therefore essential to make sure that this transferring is clean. Creases can never be dealt with once they are on the tape. So it's up to you to edit out the affected parts. But those blizzards, which appear for a split second on the screen and look like the name implies, can easily be dealt with as they are only caused by a speck of dust on the tape or on the VCR head. Whenever you are lucky enough to end up with the entire material recorded onto the HDD without the aforementioned troubles, then the rest is easy, as no supervision is necessary during the dubbing from HDD onto DVD. As with the famous computer "WYSIWYG" line, this also applies to VHS to DVD tranferring. Any imperfection that the HDD records from a VHS tape will definitely appear on the dubbed DVD....Forever!! As for your last comment regarding the transferring of VHS material straight onto DVD, this is just not possible without risking waste, as DVD-R discs cannot be re-used if any of the imperfections I mentioned gets recorded on them. Anyway, as my DVD recorder has a 17-hour capacity HDD, that is where all my material has ended first. Then, after any necessary editing, the dubbing onto DVD is the easiest part. I hope this answers your queries, Jason. Cheers.
6:17 PM
Yes Marva, I am an artist. That is what they call me. I have seen so much rubbish done by so many people who are supposed to be professionals that I always embrace this title that is frequently bestowed upon me when giving a helping hand. Cheers.
6:35 PM
Yes!...thanks Bob.
8:48 AM
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