Having trouble importing from VHS

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:43 pm

I have done this many times before without any problem. I am trying to put some of my VHS movie collection on DVD so I won't have to rebuy my entire collection.
I usually do it in mpeg format to save space. I have my VHS player hooked up to a canapus ADVC-300.

The last two movies I did didn't work. the first one was full of artifacts and the second one started out fine then went very dark.

My Preferences are Mpeg good quality I edit off the previews then make an iso file to burn to dvd.

What could have happened that would all of a sudden cause these problems?

thank You

Carol

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:41 pm

It is possibly the VHS tapes even though they may appear to play correctly on your TV from the VHS player.

When I converted several hundred VHS tapes to DVD using the exact same settings and equipment, most converted without any problems. Some however got confined to the dustbin. The problem was worn or dirty tapes.

If you are using your previously tried and trusted settings I would try again with another tape. Sometimes you can save a bad tape by using a tape head cleaner in your player, adjust the tracking and also fast forward / rewind several times.

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:38 am

Will give that a try. It is quite a mystery. Thank you

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:13 am

It was my canopus. After everything I finally convinced them to have a look and sure enough that solved it. Thank you