Hey,
I have a vhs that I want to put on dvd. I'm recording the vhs onto my Sony DCR-TRV330E digital camera, then plugging that into my computer using firewire. I'm using Adobe Premier to capture the video, however it always stops in random places... I've set the in time and the out time, so it's not that. Is it a problem with the cable perhaps, or the firewire port... Or is it something else? Any help would be great. Thanks!
ok, i know this is my first post here, but i'm certainly not a newbie with vhs>dvd conversions. i've done hundreds of hours of conversions from s/vhs, minidv, hi8, dig8, 8mm, etc. to dvd.
what you want to do is this: use your camcorder (TRV330E) as the analog-to-digital converter. there is NO need to record from VHS onto dig8 (or hi8 or 8mm) tape and then capture that onto your hard drive. you can do it all in ONE playing by setting up the analog-to-digital pass through on your camcorder.
here's how you set up the pass-through:
1) turn on your camcorder (set the power switch to VCR)
2) set the A/V -> DV OUT to ON in the menu settings (page 79 of the user manual, which i have in PDF format if you need it)
once you have that ready, make sure you have your VCR on, and make sure your camcorder is hooked up to your computer via i.Link (a.k.a. Firewire/IEEE 1394 cable), then start up your capture software (Adobe Premiere will work, but it hogs up system resources... Scenalyzer Live is much better as far as conserving your RAM). go ahead and start capturing video and hit the play button on your VCR (in either order, depending on how you want to do it).
then all you need to do is edit the footage (maybe trim off the dead space at the beginning/end of the video caputre), encode it to MPEG-2 and use PCM (or, if you must, AC3) audio and author it to DVD.
this is the most straight-forward way to do it with your setup, and it will cut your vhs>dvd conversion time in HALF, at least, since you are cutting out the step of recording vhs onto dig8 tapes (or whatever media)... and this will save you some blank dig8 tapes, too.
hope this helps.