Can anyone out there help me out? What are best ways to do this?
I have tons of footage I would like to post/share.
Thanks.

tricky2 said:

There are lots of different products that you can do this. Hauppague makes some pretty good products to do this. http://www.hauppauge.com/

You can also buy you a standard DVD recorder for your television and dub your video tapes that way. Then you can rip the dvd to a file. So, there are many different ways to do this.

I would say the cheapest way to do this is to use a mini DV camacorder that accepts video in. Most camcorders will accept a video signal from either S-Video or Composite IN.

The camcorder converts the analogue signal to a digital one and Passes it through to a PC.

The PC only has to save the video on it's hard drive. With the video on you computer you can convert it to you favorite video form H.264/AVI/DIVX/XVID/FLV/MPEG/ASF.

You computer would need to have a firewire port to accept the video back from the camcorder.

you need to go direct from VHS(S-VHS) to camcorder then to Desktop/Notebook.

The video usually comes in as an AVI file... once edited needs to be converted to MPEG 2 for DVD use.

Then you can use and video editor to cut it into smaller files or burn up to 2 hrs on a DVD+-R.

You can use an ATI All-in-Wonder card or a Haupague stand alone box if you do not have a camcorder.

Expect some image flaws and sound drop-outs on older vhs tapes.