Transferring Video From VHS to DVD, PSP, Ipod Is Easy Now

Late last summer my pastor at my church asked me to setup a DVD burner system for the recorded services. I thought sure this is easy enough, but there was one kicker, he also wanted to be able to transfer previous VHS recordings of services as well to DVD.

In the past this meant having to install a capture card with RCA, or component, inputs into the computer and using software that would capture and re-encode the video to DVD format. It was a real pain and took several hours to accomplish. Today things are much easier. We now have external hardware devices that will not only do the capturing but also do the conversion on the fly as its streaming to your computer.

The device we settled on was ADS Technologies DVD Xpress DX2. This device has RCA component inputs as well as S-Video. It connects to the PC via a USB port and is detected by Windows XP as a capturing device. The software drivers are easy to install and the device loads the drivers without problems.

Now here is the sweet part about the ADS DVD Xpress DX2 the software suite it comes with integrates with Ulead DVD Movie Factory which is included with the software package. So instead of being a 2 step process of capturing and then burning to DVD it can now be done directly in one fell swoop.

Of course the captured video can be saved to the PC’s hard drive for later manipulation and transferring to other devices such as the Sony PSP or the Apple Ipod Video. The software that comes with the device will record directly to DVD (MPEG-2), SVCD, VCD (MPEG-1), MPEG-4, & DivX as well as the PSP and Ipod formats.

I highly recommend this device to anyone who wishes to transfer their old VHS tapes to DVD and to anyone who wants to create their own video for the PSP and Ipod. This system of transferring video is the absolute easiest I’ve found. Our church loves it because with just a few clicks of the mouse even a computer novice is burning DVDs now.

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Rick Roberts owns and operates a DVD and video game store located in Kingsport TN. Visit his website For more information on the DVD-Xpress DX2

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