Video to digital? Ideas please?

[lurker17260]

I have a tiny piece (only a few seconds) on video that I really want, for sentimental reasons, to convert to digital format to conserve it.
Does anyone have any, cost effective, ideas if how I can do it/get it done? I don't have a DVD recorder.

[azureline**]

We had ours done by a guy locally but then I bought a VHS DVD recorder and did the rest myself...for nothing. Ask around friends/family.

[dskracing]

You can buy from most electronic shops, a hand little gadget that plugs into your video recorder. I think you can pick them up really cheap now,

I bought one for hubs 3 yrs ago (cos he really really had to have it)

It is still in its box unopened:(

They are called Video to DVD maker

[nevynreally]

Ask people you know if they have a DVD/Video combo and if you can borrow it or have them transfer it to DVD for you.

Buying one yourself would be expensive for a few seconds of footage (about $300)

Professionals will do it for you, at a price, some used to charge $30-$40 per tape regardless of length. Not sure what the charge is these days.

[nevynreally]

You can buy from most electronic shops, a hand little gadget that plugs into your video recorder. I think you can pick them up really cheap now,

I bought one for hubs 3 yrs ago (cos he really really had to have it)

It is still in its box unopened:(

They are called Video to DVD maker

Forgot about those, but you do have to have a working VCR for that one.

[azureline**]

Ask people you know if they have a DVD/Video combo and if you can borrow it or have them transfer it to DVD for you.

Buying one yourself would be expensive for a few seconds of footage (about $300)

Professionals will do it for you, at a price, some used to charge $30-$40 per tape regardless of length. Not sure what the charge is these days.

Yes, we paid $40 for ours, each

[azureline**]

http://www.avidtech.com.au/documents/vhs-to-dvd.htm

From $45.00 inc GST plus delivery.

[the_great_she_elephant]

We've just bought a converter from Officeworks for $99.95 that converts from your vhs straight onto your computer. You will need a reasonably high speed computer though

[nevynreally]

And check it comes with decent software to convert to DVD, if you want to watch it on one, or allow others to.

[the_great_she_elephant]

We've just bought a converter from Officeworks for $99.95 that converts from your vhs straight onto your computer. You will need a reasonably high speed computer though

It's called a Roxio Easy VHS to DVD3 

Minimum system requirements:

Microsoft Windows7 Home premium,  , Windows Vista Home Basic (SP3 for 32-bit, SP2 for 64-bit

Direct X7 compatible graphics card or higher  sound card,DVD-ROM drive.

2GB of fre hard drive space for installation

Windows media player 10,11, or 12

DVD writer to burn DVDs

Internet Explorer 7,8 or 9

One available USB 2 port

Minimum screen resolution 1024-by-768