VHS conversion to external hard drive

jddealer · Post by **jddealer** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:54 pm

I am wanting to capture vhs tapes to my computer to edit and burn to dvd. In order to not fill up my hard drive (40 gb) I bought an external hard drive which I connected by usb cable. This does not seem to work well at all. Any ideas on how to handle?

Thanks, John

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:34 am

Capture to your internal hard drive and then copy to the external.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:05 am

You can have more than one internal Hard Drive.
There are 4 IDE slots on your motherboard.
Uses of this forum will undoubtedly be using a DVD Writer which leaves 3 slots available for your hard drives

I have 3 Internal Hard Drives. My external drive is just used for back ups and set up disks.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:30 am

Unless you have a slow machine capturing to the external drive via USB 2 is possible. If your having problems capturing directly to the drive capture to your local drive and see if that works.
If capturing to the local disk works then check the settings for the external usb drive.

If it's formatted for FAT32 then maximum file size will be 4 gigs.
You may want to repartition the drive and format as NTFS etc (or just reformat the drive for NTFS file system).

Check and make sure the usb drive is on it's on port and not sharing any usb ports with any slower devices such as a usb mouse/keyboard/webcam/X10 wireless controller/joystick.
Some computers usb ports drop down to the lowest speed of the slowest device. USB hubs will do this. So, in other words your drive may be operating at 12Mbs instead of the full 480Mbs.

There are usually 2 ports per USB channel on the machine. Try to plug the external drive into it's own channel.

Hope this helps,

MD

digitaldude99 · Post by **digitaldude99** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:34 am

Have you tried to capture the video and select the fast re-editable option?