A question we get often is why do you only put 2 hours on a DVD? The answer is simple. It’s all about quality and compatibility. When you put more data on a DVD you have to compress the video even more. The type DVD most commonly used in tape to DVD conversion is a DVD-R single layer this type disc holds a maximum of 4.7gb of data it uses around 300mb for the DVD directory like chapters menus and such. Since you are trying to preserve your tape transfers it would not make sense to degrade them even more by lowering the bit rate at which you have them transferred at. One other issue we have experienced at the lower bit rates is decreased compatibility with some DVD players.
The goal of transfer is to carry your videos into the future as long as possible and to keep the quality as good as possible.
2 hours is at 7.5mb per second and maintains very good quality on a DVD. Happy Transfers.
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This is a video we produced for The Home Builders Licensure Board of Alabama. Please beware of unlicensed contractors.
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This is cool yet another thing you can do with your itouch or iphone.
Save the whales, save the birds,save the fish and save the VHS, yes you heard right VHS tape is dying a little every day and will someday be extinct. Each time you watch your family memories on VHS tape you are loosing some of the signal on the video tape. The oxide particles that contain your family memories shed from the tape a little every time you view the tape. Even when your video tapes are sitting on a shelf minding their own business they are slowly erasing. The earths magnetic field has some effect on this, not to mention electric motors,speaker magnets and any other magnetic field that could be roaming your house in search of yummy VHS. In some instances one of your own family (maybe even you) unknowingly feed the VHS to a tape eating VCR. I apologize for being so graphic hope the kids were not reading this. So how do you save them you ask? Transfer them to DVD and have a backup copy of the DVD made. I know what you are thinking who can perform such a miracle as this? Take your meager VHS analog tape and bring it into the digital age with many new advanced capabilities such as chapter markers, titles and direct access. (more to come on the wonderful world of DVD in another blog later) I don’t like to brag but, You guessed it we can do that. Call or email us if you need more information about the certain demise of your VHS tape collection. Click on the website link for contact information www.camvideoproductions.com (it’s also in the sidebar)
And remember Save the VHS!!
