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Speaker 1: The DIY way to transfer your old home videos to digital.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, I'm Rich Dmiro, this is Rich on Tech. Okay,

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Speaker 1: take a look around your house. If you're like most Americans,

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Speaker 1: you probably have a bunch of old video tapes lying around.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about Hollywood movies here, We're talking about

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Speaker 1: the old family memories. Yeah, the ones that were recorded

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Speaker 1: probably on some sort of camcorder, whether it's high eight, VHS, VHSC,

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Speaker 1: whatever you got, mini DV.

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Speaker 2: Think about it.

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Speaker 1: These tapes have now been around for maybe ten twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty years. Those are analog tapes, and the memories and

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Speaker 1: the images on them will not last forever. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to show you the easy way to transfer them

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Speaker 1: to your computer and do it all on your own.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. If you are comfortable with sending

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Speaker 1: these tapes out to a third party, then.

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Speaker 2: Go do it.

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Speaker 1: But to me, I don't like the idea of my videotapes,

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Speaker 1: which are mostly my family's tapes, leaving my hands because

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Speaker 1: guess what if something happens in transit, something goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: they get lost, there.

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Speaker 2: Is no getting them.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm going to go through the process of

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Speaker 1: doing it yourself, which, yes, takes a little bit of time,

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Speaker 1: it takes a little bit of effort, it takes a

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Speaker 1: little bit of equipment. But I think you'll be very

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Speaker 1: happy knowing that your tapes are safe and sound in

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Speaker 1: your house. And it's kind of fun to watch these

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Speaker 1: things go to digital because you do find some moments

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Speaker 1: here and there that are really fun and interesting and

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Speaker 1: things that you kind of forgot about that happen in

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Speaker 1: your life. Here's what you need to go from tape

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Speaker 1: to digital. First off, you need your old tapes. These

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Speaker 1: could be in a variety of formats, VHS, VHSC, Mini, DV,

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Speaker 1: high eight, whatever you got. You can play them and

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Speaker 1: you can digitize them. You also need a captured device.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain that in a moment. You need a computer,

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Speaker 1: and then you need a safe place to store your

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Speaker 1: digital files, preferably online and also somewhere that's in your house.

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Speaker 2: You also need a way to play your old tape.

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Speaker 1: So if you have saved your camquorder or VCR, give

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Speaker 1: yourself a pat on the back, because guess what, so

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Speaker 1: many of us threw these things away many years ago

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Speaker 1: or sold them at groad sales. If you have one,

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Speaker 1: you are in luck because that's going to make this

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Speaker 1: process so much easier. If you you don't have one, well,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit tough because there are

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Speaker 1: replacements online on eBay and things like that, but they

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Speaker 1: are expensive. People know that people want these things to

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Speaker 1: digitize tape. So you're talking, You're not gonna find a

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Speaker 1: VCR for fifty bucks. You're gonna find it for maybe

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Speaker 1: one hundred or two hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: So if you.

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Speaker 1: Can, I recommend pinging your friends and family, put a

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Speaker 1: notice out on Facebook saying, hey, does anyone have a

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Speaker 1: high eight cam quarter or does anyone have a VCR

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Speaker 1: I can borrow because that's gonna be your best bet.

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Speaker 1: And then maybe it'd be nice for the person that

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Speaker 1: lent you this thing. You can do a tape or

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Speaker 1: two for them and then show them how to do

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Speaker 1: it and they can do the rest themselves. All right,

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Speaker 1: So once you have everything in place, you can begin.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The thing I haven't talked about yet is the capture device.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the key parts of the process.

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Speaker 1: So I tested several of these things. I tested two

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Speaker 1: that worked really well. One is the El Gato Video

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Speaker 1: Capture for Mac and this one sells for about eighty

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Speaker 1: dollars on Amazon, and it's the best. El Gato makes

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Speaker 1: the best equipment for Mac capture and it says it

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Speaker 1: works for PC as well. I did not test it

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Speaker 2: It really is a great device, even though it is

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Speaker 1: The other one I tested is the Roxio Easy VHS

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Speaker 1: to DVD three for PC, and this one is very similar,

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Speaker 1: very similar equipment. The software is different, but this one

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Speaker 1: was about forty dollars on Amazon, maybe forty five. And

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Speaker 1: the thing I did find with the Roxio which was

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Speaker 1: kind of weird. They put the software on a disc,

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Speaker 1: so you need a disk drive on your computer to

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Speaker 1: install the software. And you're probably thinking your head, oh, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I'll just go to their website and download the software. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what, they don't really have the software on their

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Speaker 1: which involved basically hooking up my disk drive to my

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Speaker 1: software that way, and then I had to download a

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Speaker 1: patch for Windows ten from the Roxio website. So yes,

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Speaker 1: it can be done, but just be prepared. If you

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Speaker 1: your PC, it will take a little bit longer to

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Speaker 1: do that. Now, buyer beware, there are lots of cheap

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Speaker 1: models of these video capture devices on Amazon. You can

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Speaker 1: get them for US cheap as like fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 2: Just skip them.

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Speaker 1: I did order one on Amazon for the Mac and

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Speaker 1: it was such a pain to set up the software.

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Speaker 1: Everything was messed up. So just don't do it. Just

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Speaker 1: stay away, go with one of the recommendations, either the

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Speaker 1: Elgato or the Roxio, and you'll be a lot happier

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Speaker 1: because you will skip all the frustrations that I had

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Speaker 1: So now that you've got your video capture device, you

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Speaker 1: have to connect that to your computer. Usually it's through USB,

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Speaker 1: and then you connect your player to this device. So

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Speaker 1: if you have your old camcorder or your VCR, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna connect it and you're gonna use those composite cables.

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Speaker 1: Remember those Those are the cables that have the yellow, white,

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Speaker 1: and red breakout cables. You're gonna connect those to the

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Speaker 1: player and then also to the video capture device. My recommendation,

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Speaker 1: if your player can handle S video, use that for

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Speaker 1: the video portion of your cable connection. So you'll still

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Speaker 1: but then you'll use the S video. That way you

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Speaker 1: can get the clearest connection. Believe me, these videos are

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Speaker 1: bad compared to what you have, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: The memories on them are so worth it that it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter how bad they are. You will forget about

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Speaker 2: Okay, so now you have everything connected. Now for the

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Speaker 1: You pop in the tape and you press record on

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Speaker 2: And then you have to start over again.

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Speaker 1: Once the tape is finished recording, the software will give

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Speaker 1: You have to back up that digitized tape in a

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Speaker 1: in real time. Because this way you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: find all of your digitized videos later on. The other

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Speaker 1: way you can store your videos is on YouTube. You

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Speaker 1: can do this for free as well. When you're uploading

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Speaker 2: Just be sure to pick the unlisted option, not the

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Speaker 2: public option. This will give you more privacy and.

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Speaker 1: Basically means that someone on YouTube can't search for your video,

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Speaker 2: I never back them up. Please, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: If you like this podcast, be sure to take a

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. You can find links to

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Speaker 1: everything I talk about here on my website. Just go

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Speaker 1: to richon tech dot tv, or I'll post them in

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you real soon.