Transfer Old VHS Tapes to Computer and Make them Playable on a Wide Range of Devices

Some families may likely to store boxes of VHS tapes that contain their precious memories: birthday party, wedding, graduation and incredible things you witnessed years ago. However, VHS are disappearing as digital technology takes over. There are many digital gadgets now; old VHS footage is exiting the stage of history; it’s time to breathe new life.

Transferring VHS to computer is a good choice to keep those memories for generations, thus you can renew these memories on computer or convert the videos to portable devices. Transferring VHS, you can either use a video card or an external capture device that can convert analog video signal on VHS tapes to digital format saved on computer, where it can be edited and enhanced.

1. Get an USB video capture device
An USB video capture device is a small box with cable that sits between your VHS tape player and your computer. This is the best choice for a computer beginner. It allows you to capture VHS video without adding a video capture card inside your computer.

2. Connect the VHS tape player with USB video capture device
Connect data cords run to your VHS tape player, through the box, and then to a USB port on your computer.

3. Transfer VHS
Play VHS tape, keep an eye on the transferring process, and stop it when it finishes transferring.

4. Launch VHS video converter
Download and install a video converter tool which can edit the video and also convert it to other formats that can be played on iPhone, iPad, etc

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For Windows users, please download Windows version, and the following is the method of enhancing the video.

Enhance the video

5. Edit video
VHS is usually in AVI or MPEG format when transfer to computer. Click “Add File(s) to import the video from your hard disk. Click “clip” to clip video segments; “edit” to crop video frame size, add watermark or subtitle, and adjust video color; “merge” is for merging several clips together.



6. Convert video to portable devices
This video converter is able to convert videos to all popular brands of portable devices. You can choose the output format from the “Profile” list. After all the editing and setting, just click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Thus, your VHS video has been enhanced and can be played on a wide range of portable devices. You can pack those old VHS tapes and enjoy those happy moments with your cool gadgets.