Hi All, I'm a novice when it comes to converting videos, so I hope I can get helpful information here. I have a lot of old VHS tapes that we recorded with a old Camcorder. Like everyone else, I'd like to convert them to digital to preserve the memories before the VHS tapes stop working.

Switch is an audio file converter for Mac. It can convert many different types of audio files into mp3 or wav format and more. Bigasoft Real Player Converter for Mac is the best and easiest-to-use Mac Real Player video converter for RealMedia file conversion to convert RealVideo/RealAudio in RM. My new 2.66Ghz Mac Pro with X1900 XT arrived today and I'm eager to get started on projects. One plan I have is to make digital backups of some of my old decaying VHS tapes from college and earlier.

Here's what I want to do: Take the old VHS tapes and convert them into a digital files that I would leave on my computer, put them in iTunes and play them on AppleTV. I don't really need to edit them, I just want to make a backup of them, so to speak.

I bought the Elgato USB Video Capture device that connects my old VCR to my PC via RCA. The tapes are playing fine and Elgato converts the file into an MP4 which is perfect for iTunes. Onedrive desktop icon for mac. Here's the issue: Some of my tapes are 2 to 3 hours longs and I noticed that any converted videos that are longer than 30 minutes, the audio and video become out of sync. Is there a setting in Elgato that I can adjust to get the video/audio in perfect sync for long videos or am I using the wrong equipment?

Again, my goal is to preserve old VHS tapes and leave them in iTunes for playback on AppleTV. No need to convert to DVD. Because I'm not expert in this kind of stuff, I'm not looking to edit or use 3rd party software for post production or anything like that. Just a simple 'press play' on the VCR and 'press record' on the computer. If Elgato isn't going to work for audio syncing, which is?

Thank you so much. How many tapes do you have? Many times the best way to go is to outsource the work for a service. Quality conversions take a lot of manual effort and you have to watch the entire tape on the screen you can't just let it run because there might be blank spots on the tape or defects or color correction issues.

These guys do a good job Then it is simple to import the DVD to iTunes and keep the DVD as a backup at some off site location. If you want to convert non HD older video formats yourself the best device I have found s a DV camera. All DV cams have a firewire output that plugs directly into most Macs. (Newer Macs needs a FW to Thunderbolt adaptor.) Most DV cams have an analog input for composite video and will pass that through to the FW output (AK 'Sony iLink output) The result files are large because DV does not use inter frame compression. But the files are higher quality then VHS can produce so there is no loss. Find a good DV cam. The are way-cheep now because everyone wants HD.

Then you give the DV file to either Handbrake of Apple's 'Compressor' and wait a few hours. If it were me and I cared about the footage I could edit and color grade scene by scene before comprising.

Maybe run an image stabilization filter and clem up any audio problems. Click to expand.Great suggestion, and one I wish I'd thought of before I bought a Canopus ADVC-55 several years ago. I have an old Sony DV camcorder and could have saved myself some money. To the OP: I've done what you've done using a couple different methods. I don't have the Elgato device, but I do have the aforementioned Canopus, which does the same thing. It has a FireWire output to connect to my Mac, and RCA and S-Video inputs for my VCR.

I capture my video to iMovie, because I plan to edit some of it eventually. It takes a long time, and the files are huge, but big hard drives are cheap, and I figure I might as well have editable files.