WEBVTT - DIY: Transfer Your Old Tapes to Digital

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<v Speaker 1>The DIY way to transfer your old home videos to digital.

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>you probably have a bunch of old video tapes lying around.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not talking about Hollywood movies here, We're talking about

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<v Speaker 1>the old family memories. Yeah, the ones that were recorded

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

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you got, mini DV.

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<v Speaker 2>Think about it.

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<v Speaker 1>These tapes have now been around for maybe ten twenty

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<v Speaker 1>thirty years. Those are analog tapes, and the memories and

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<v Speaker 1>the images on them will not last forever. So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to show you the easy way to transfer them

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<v Speaker 1>to your computer and do it all on your own.

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<v Speaker 1>Now here's the thing. If you are comfortable with sending

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<v Speaker 1>these tapes out to a third party, then.

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<v Speaker 2>Go do it.

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

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<v Speaker 1>which are mostly my family's tapes, leaving my hands because

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<v Speaker 1>guess what if something happens in transit, something goes wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>they get lost, there.

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<v Speaker 2>Is no getting them.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I'm going to go through the process of

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<v Speaker 1>doing it yourself, which, yes, takes a little bit of time,

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<v Speaker 1>it takes a little bit of effort, it takes a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of equipment. But I think you'll be very

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<v Speaker 1>happy knowing that your tapes are safe and sound in

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<v Speaker 1>your house. And it's kind of fun to watch these

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<v Speaker 1>things go to digital because you do find some moments

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<v Speaker 1>here and there that are really fun and interesting and

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<v Speaker 1>things that you kind of forgot about that happen in

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<v Speaker 1>your life. Here's what you need to go from tape

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<v Speaker 1>to digital. First off, you need your old tapes. These

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<v Speaker 1>could be in a variety of formats, VHS, VHSC, Mini, DV,

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<v Speaker 1>high eight, whatever you got. You can play them and

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<v Speaker 1>you can digitize them. You also need a captured device.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll explain that in a moment. You need a computer,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you need a safe place to store your

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

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<v Speaker 2>You also need a way to play your old tape.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you have saved your camquorder or VCR, give

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<v Speaker 1>yourself a pat on the back, because guess what, so

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<v Speaker 1>many of us threw these things away many years ago

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<v Speaker 1>or sold them at groad sales. If you have one,

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<v Speaker 1>you are in luck because that's going to make this

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

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be a little bit tough because there are

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<v Speaker 1>replacements online on eBay and things like that, but they

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<v Speaker 1>are expensive. People know that people want these things to

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

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<v Speaker 1>VCR for fifty bucks. You're gonna find it for maybe

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred or two hundred dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you.

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<v Speaker 1>Can, I recommend pinging your friends and family, put a

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<v Speaker 1>notice out on Facebook saying, hey, does anyone have a

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<v Speaker 1>high eight cam quarter or does anyone have a VCR

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<v Speaker 1>I can borrow because that's gonna be your best bet.

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<v Speaker 1>And then maybe it'd be nice for the person that

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<v Speaker 1>lent you this thing. You can do a tape or

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<v Speaker 1>two for them and then show them how to do

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<v Speaker 1>it and they can do the rest themselves. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>So once you have everything in place, you can begin.

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<v Speaker 2>Now.

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

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<v Speaker 1>This is one of the key parts of the process.

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<v Speaker 1>So I tested several of these things. I tested two

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<v Speaker 1>that worked really well. One is the El Gato Video

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<v Speaker 1>Capture for Mac and this one sells for about eighty

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

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<v Speaker 1>the best equipment for Mac capture and it says it

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<v Speaker 1>works for PC as well. I did not test it

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<v Speaker 1>on PC, but it does work for me and it

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<v Speaker 1>is perfect.

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<v Speaker 2>It really is a great device, even though it is

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<v Speaker 2>a little pricey.

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<v Speaker 1>The other one I tested is the Roxio Easy VHS

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<v Speaker 1>to DVD three for PC, and this one is very similar,

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<v Speaker 1>very similar equipment. The software is different, but this one

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<v Speaker 1>was about forty dollars on Amazon, maybe forty five. And

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<v Speaker 1>this worked really well on a PC system. And here's

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<v Speaker 1>the thing I did find with the Roxio which was

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<v Speaker 1>kind of weird. They put the software on a disc,

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<v Speaker 1>so you need a disk drive on your computer to

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>guess what, they don't really have the software on their

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<v Speaker 1>website to download, so I had to do a workaround,

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<v Speaker 1>which involved basically hooking up my disk drive to my

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<v Speaker 1>Mac computer, copying over the entire contents of the Roxio CD,

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<v Speaker 1>and then transferring all that stuff via flash drive to

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<v Speaker 1>my Microsoft computer my Windows computer and then installing the

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<v Speaker 1>software that way, and then I had to download a

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<v Speaker 1>patch for Windows ten from the Roxio website. So yes,

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<v Speaker 1>it can be done, but just be prepared. If you

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have a disk drive on your computer. On

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<v Speaker 1>your PC, it will take a little bit longer to

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<v Speaker 1>do that. Now, buyer beware, there are lots of cheap

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<v Speaker 1>models of these video capture devices on Amazon. You can

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<v Speaker 1>get them for US cheap as like fifteen to twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five dollars, but do not get them.

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<v Speaker 2>Just skip them.

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<v Speaker 1>I did order one on Amazon for the Mac and

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<v Speaker 1>it was such a pain to set up the software.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything was messed up. So just don't do it. Just

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<v Speaker 1>stay away, go with one of the recommendations, either the

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<v Speaker 1>Elgato or the Roxio, and you'll be a lot happier

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<v Speaker 1>because you will skip all the frustrations that I had

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<v Speaker 1>in trying to get one of these cheapis to work. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So now that you've got your video capture device, you

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

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<v Speaker 1>and then you connect your player to this device. So

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<v Speaker 1>if you have your old camcorder or your VCR, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna connect it and you're gonna use those composite cables.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember those Those are the cables that have the yellow, white,

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<v Speaker 1>and red breakout cables. You're gonna connect those to the

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<v Speaker 1>player and then also to the video capture device. My recommendation,

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<v Speaker 1>if your player can handle S video, use that for

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<v Speaker 1>the video portion of your cable connection. So you'll still

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<v Speaker 1>have to connect your red and you're white for your audio,

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<v Speaker 1>but then you'll use the S video. That way you

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<v Speaker 1>can get the clearest connection. Believe me, these videos are

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna look so good because we're so used to

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<v Speaker 1>HD and four K. These videos are gonna look pretty

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

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<v Speaker 1>The memories on them are so worth it that it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter how bad they are. You will forget about

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff because once you see the memories on

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<v Speaker 1>these things, you'll still love them.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so now you have everything connected. Now for the

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<v Speaker 2>fun part.

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<v Speaker 1>You pop in the tape and you press record on

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<v Speaker 1>your computer using the software that they provide while the

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<v Speaker 1>tape plays. And keep in mind, this transfer is going

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<v Speaker 1>to happen in real time, so this is the longest

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<v Speaker 1>part of the process. So if you have a ninety

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<v Speaker 1>minute tape. It's gonna take your computer ninety minutes to

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<v Speaker 1>record that tape to its hard drive. Also, keep in

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<v Speaker 1>mind you need to have sufficient hard disk space before

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<v Speaker 1>you begin. These things are going to take up a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of space on your hard drive. We're talking gigabytes here.

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<v Speaker 1>Make sure you have either an external hard drive or

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of space on your internal drive so that

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have any sort of problems in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of your recording where your hard drive runs out of space.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you have to start over again.

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<v Speaker 1>Once the tape is finished recording, the software will give

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<v Speaker 1>you the option to edit it or just keep it

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<v Speaker 1>as is. So what I did basically is I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>worry about editing these tapes as I went along. Once

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<v Speaker 1>I had them on my hard drive, all I did

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<v Speaker 1>was use the little sliders at the end to kind

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<v Speaker 1>of clip off the beginning and the end. Because sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>you might just have a blank screen at the beginning,

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<v Speaker 1>or let's say your tape only ran thirty minutes, but

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<v Speaker 1>you're recorded for an hour. Because you don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>miss anything, you can just use the little handles on

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<v Speaker 1>either end of the software that they provide to kind

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<v Speaker 1>of clip the blank video off of the end, and

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<v Speaker 1>then you save the file to your computer. So basically,

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<v Speaker 1>at this point you now have a digitized tape on

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<v Speaker 1>your computer's hard drive.

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<v Speaker 2>And the next step is crucial.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to back up that digitized tape in a

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<v Speaker 1>safe place. So I recommend Google Photos for several reasons. First,

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<v Speaker 1>you can store as many any videos as you want

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<v Speaker 1>there for free. Google Photos lets you store videos for

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<v Speaker 1>free up to ten eighty so HD. None of these

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<v Speaker 1>videos that you're saving are gonna be HD, so basically

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<v Speaker 1>you can save all of them for one hundred percent free,

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<v Speaker 1>as many as you want. Second, Google Photos does this

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<v Speaker 1>really cool thing where it actually identifies the people and

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<v Speaker 1>places inside your videos. So that means that you will

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<v Speaker 1>see a list of all the videos that contain your mom,

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<v Speaker 1>your dad, your uncle, earl. You can search for things

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<v Speaker 1>like Christmas in your videos. Google Photos will slice and

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<v Speaker 1>dice all the data is sees inside your videos. I

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<v Speaker 1>know it's pretty amazing and that alone is worth using

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<v Speaker 1>it just to store these videos. So to upload your

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<v Speaker 1>videos to Google Photos, what I want you to do

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<v Speaker 1>is navigate to the website photos dot Google dot com

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<v Speaker 1>and then drag and drop the file from your computer

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<v Speaker 1>to the website. Now you might be saying, rich, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got a sync program on my computer, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>need to drag and drop.

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to drag and drop it for a

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<v Speaker 2>big reason.

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<v Speaker 1>The way Google Photos Sync the desktop app works on

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<v Speaker 1>your computer. If you delete that file in your hard drive,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a chance it could delete that file out of

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<v Speaker 1>Google Photos. And you do not have that problem when

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<v Speaker 1>you drag and drop the file on the website. So

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to use the website photos dot Google

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<v Speaker 1>dot com, and that way you know that your video,

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<v Speaker 1>once you put it in there and you upload it,

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<v Speaker 1>it's going to be there forever. The other thing I

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<v Speaker 1>want you to do is that once you upload all

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<v Speaker 1>these videos that you digitize, I want you to add

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<v Speaker 1>them to an album. That way they don't get lost

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<v Speaker 1>among all the other photos and pictures that you're taking

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<v Speaker 1>in real time. Because this way you'll be able to

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<v Speaker 1>find all of your digitized videos later on. The other

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<v Speaker 1>way you can store your videos is on YouTube. You

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<v Speaker 1>can do this for free as well. When you're uploading

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<v Speaker 1>them to YouTube.

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<v Speaker 2>Just be sure to pick the unlisted option, not the

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<v Speaker 2>public option. This will give you more privacy and.

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

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<v Speaker 1>but you can take that same YouTube link that you're

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<v Speaker 1>used to send it to any of your friends or

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<v Speaker 1>family and they can view the video without logging in. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>if you really want to be private, you can use

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<v Speaker 1>the private upload option. This is the most private way

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<v Speaker 1>you can be on YouTube because you can share the

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<v Speaker 1>link with anyone, but even if they click it, they

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<v Speaker 1>will not be able to access the video. They have

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<v Speaker 1>to be pre approved, You have to add them to

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<v Speaker 1>a certain list, and then they have to log in

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<v Speaker 1>with their YouTube account to access it. So I don't

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<v Speaker 1>really recommend that for friends and family because it's going

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<v Speaker 1>to be a pain for them to access your videos,

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<v Speaker 1>but it is the most private, So if you're looking

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<v Speaker 1>for privacy, that's the way to go. I've noticed a

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<v Speaker 1>couple things about the way we used to record compared

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<v Speaker 1>to today.

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<v Speaker 2>What we used to do is have.

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<v Speaker 1>A sixty minute tape and you'd have a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>different family functions on there. So the first ten minutes

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<v Speaker 1>would be a birthday party, the second ten minutes would

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<v Speaker 1>be you know, day out on the farm, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>petting zoo.

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<v Speaker 2>The next ten minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Nowadays, we have all individual clips, so if you want,

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<v Speaker 1>you can go back and edit all of your videos

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<v Speaker 1>and make them into individual clips, which I've been doing,

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<v Speaker 1>but again that takes a little bit of time.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been using QuickTime. If you have a Mac computer,

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<v Speaker 2>it's super easy.

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<v Speaker 1>You just open it up in QuickTime and you can

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<v Speaker 1>literally trim the clips. That way, you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>use final cut. But if you're on a Windows computer,

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<v Speaker 1>probably want to use the software that rocks you provides

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<v Speaker 1>you to edit that as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Now here's there's the other thing.

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<v Speaker 1>You need to make sure your videos are backed up

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<v Speaker 1>in two different places before you chuck those old tapes.

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<v Speaker 2>So once you have.

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<v Speaker 1>These things digitized, there's not really a reason to keep

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<v Speaker 1>the old tapes around, but you have to have them

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<v Speaker 1>uploaded and backed up in two different places. So that

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<v Speaker 1>can be a combination of an external hard drive along

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<v Speaker 1>with Google Photos. It could be Google Photos along with

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<v Speaker 1>one edrive. It can be iCloud along with Google Photos.

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<v Speaker 1>But where whatever you do, you need to have these

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<v Speaker 1>videos in two different places. That way, if one place

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<v Speaker 1>goes down, one place gets corrupted, you still have them

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<v Speaker 1>in a second place. I don't want you coming to

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<v Speaker 1>me in a year and saying, Rich, I lost all

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<v Speaker 1>my videos because I digitize the tapes and.

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<v Speaker 2>I never back them up. Please, I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>ever get that email. All right, there you have it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a time consuming process, but I have been enjoying this.

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<v Speaker 1>My family has been enjoying it. It's so easy and realistically,

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<v Speaker 1>the only thing that it takes of you is your time.

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<v Speaker 1>So put the time in, digitize those old tapes, and

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<v Speaker 1>have a lot of fun with it. If you have

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<v Speaker 1>any questions, you can email me, or you can tweet me,

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<v Speaker 1>or you can post to my Facebook page. I'm happy

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<v Speaker 1>to answer them because I've been doing this process now

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<v Speaker 1>for the past couple of weeks and I've definitely figured

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<v Speaker 1>out what works and what doesn't work.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>If you like this podcast, be sure to take a

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<v Speaker 1>screenshot of it and post it to social media and

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<v Speaker 1>tag me so I can see the love. I'm Richdmiro,

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for listening. You can find links to

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<v Speaker 1>everything I talk about here on my website. Just go

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<v Speaker 1>to richon tech dot tv, or I'll post them in

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<v Speaker 1>the show notes.

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<v Speaker 2>I will talk to you real soon.