Ok, that's going the other direction :). You'll need a way to hook the
audio and video from your VCR into your Mac, typically this is done
with a TV tuner or video capture device, and its appropriate software.
The software also provides the recording capabilities, though someone
else will have to answer as to which TV tuners are the best for Mac in
terms of accessibility. For most Macs you will want a USB video
capture or tv tuner device, but there's probably some internal PCI
cards that will work with the MacPro if you happen to have one of
those... or a hackintosh of course.
You could also simply hook your VCR's audio up to your Mac's line-in
jack, assuming your VCR has RCA audio outs. This would only give you
the audio, but if you want to record to m4a (mp4/aac audio only) then
this would be enough. You could then use any audio recording program
to record the sound from the VCR. The downside to this is, of course,
you won't get video which may not be a downside to you at all if you
don't want it.
On Nov 20, 2008, at 20:35, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
I want to record a video from VCR to Digital Format, maybe m4a.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 20-Nov-08, at 12:22 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Assuming you had a way to hook both the video and audio from your
computer into a VCR, then yes. You could either do this through RCA/
S-video or component video, or through a TV. The specific
connections you would use depends on your VCR. Note that DVDs often
have something known as Macrovision protection, which is supposed
to prevent you from recording them to VHS with a proper picture.
This doesn't apply to computers though, just to stand-alone DVD
players, as the dvd playing software must decode the macrovision
first in order for the picture to be correct in the first place. If
you're still worried about it, you can always use MacTheRipper to
remove the various protections before playing it and recording it
to VHS. Video files such as MP4s and AVIs will work too, if you can
get the playback software to output to your VCR you're good to go.
On Nov 20, 2008, at 15:05, Tiffany D wrote:
What if I wanted to convert dvds to vhs or videos on my computer to
vhs? Can I do that?
On 09/11/2008, Alex Jurgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
This might sound stupid, but it possible to use Voiceover and a
Mac to
control a VCR? Also, is there hardware for my MB that will let me
capture VHSs from my VCR in a digital format, and is such a thing
accessible to VO users?
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
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