Connecting VCR to Computer: Analog Capture Card

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'll show you how to connect your VCR to your computer using a analog capture card which is this. Now mind looks like this just regular PCI card, and just got to connects here composite and SVU, but your capture card could look different. It could have more inputs. It could be built into you video card. There's a number of devices out there, but the gist is they all do the same thing. They're just taking the analog footage from your VCR and putting it into your computer, and digitizing it when it's doing that. So you'll always be using the composite when you're coming from a VCR, and I will show you how to connect that in a second. O.K. so we have our VCR and our computer and our capture card, which is right here, and we'll also be using our sound card for the audio, and for my sound card I'm going to need a converter with a standard funnel jack to the RCA in puts, we're going to be taking in, and that'll go right into the mike input, and then, I've got the standard RCA to RCA cable here, and on the VCR we're plugging the video the yellow one. The video to the VCR's video out put and the white audio one it to the VCR's audio out put, and then taking the other end and plugging it right into the capture card in the back of our computer, and then the audio. I'm only going to hook up one, you could hook up the other one, but in this case it just sending out one audio channel so were only going to see one audio. So now it's just going straight from the VCR in to our computer. Now your, your capture card may be different it may be build into the video card so you'll have the input up here. This one actually an out put but yours will be an input or your capture card could have the audio on the same card in stead of you going through your sound card, just depend on what you have in your computer. So check that read the manual be for you go back there, but this is what it should look like. The basic set up."