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I have connected my VCR to the TV tuner in the back of my media center and recorded a VCR tape onto my hard drive. Is there anyway I can import that file into Windows Movie Maker or do I need to get an capture device such as Dazzle to do that
 
Chris,

See the Importing Source Files > Video > Recorded TV page of my site.... My
experience with doing it via the tuner and a Dazzle is that the video
quality is a tad better with the tuner process. But any stereo audio is
converted to mono with that process. Both ways work.
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Chris said:
I have connected my VCR to the TV tuner in the back of my media center and
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recorded a VCR tape onto my hard drive. Is there anyway I can import that
file into Windows Movie Maker or do I need to get an capture device such as
Dazzle to do that?
 
Hi
I am assuming your tuner card creats MPEG1/2 files.
I have noted a few posts in the past about converting MPEG2 to AVI for use
in MM and I have had the same trouble myself.
I was using TMPGENC with two passes - creating a silent AVI and then a Wave
file. The problem I had was the wav file used the audio track so adding
music took multiple passes with consequential loss of video quality.
I now use: MPEG Mediator 1.5. a GNU Licenced product. The site I obtained it
from advertised it as a mpeg to divx converter, but in fact any codec can be
used (I use the MS MPEG4 V2 codec (It doesn't seem to recognise huffy)) -
the codecs are listed under the 'configure plugin' option under the output
menu option.
I have had no problems with MPEG2 up to 2GB

Eeyore


Chris said:
I have connected my VCR to the TV tuner in the back of my media center and
Click to expand...
recorded a VCR tape onto my hard drive. Is there anyway I can import that
file into Windows Movie Maker or do I need to get an capture device such as
Dazzle to do that?
 
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