stupid question

[Generic Skinhead]

Ok folks stuid question time...what type of connections do I need to output from final cut/premiere to regular VHS?

[norman-normal]

well you need a VHS recorder, which has inputs, such as a scart or those 'phono' type sockets.
And on your PC you need a Video capture/export card - which should have those 'phono' type sockets.

And you need a lead that has 'phono' to 'phono' types on each end or 'phono' type to scart.

My set up is a scart with the phono types.


Norman

[marti-c]

Yeah go into any electrical shop and get the lead that has the scart socket on one end and the bunch of phono sockets at the other (6 in total...video in ,video out,audio in L+R,audio out L+R ). This assumes you have a video card in your PC that has outputs. This will output to normal VHS however if you own a svhs video or have a hi-8 video camera then you can use the svhs video output to gain better quality.

marti

[machead]

I assume your on a Mac (FCP software)
You'll need to enable the DV-in fascility on your cam-corder,Mac to cam-corder via Fire-Wire ,then camcorder to VCR via the cables that came with your camcorder.
Or buy a studio box (?300) and plug a VCR straight into your Mac via the Studio box.


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[ilpostino]

If you imported your footage from a DV camera then all you need to do is export it digitally back to the DV camera (via firewire of course). Then you just hook up your camera to the VHS player the normal way and play and record, SVHS connection is supposed to be better than those red yellow and white phono connections.

By the way VHS looks shit! I recorded some of my stuff onto it from a 100% digital source and it may as well have been a 10th generation analogue source.

You can however find pro's that will get it onto VHS nice and clean for a fee.

[no_one119]

You may also have an S-Video output from your card and input on your video. With the necessary lead this is the usual why I believe.

[Curtin-Parloe]

I've tried SVHS in a load of different situations and i found it shoddy at best, unviewable at worst - black and white and dead grainy.

could just be me...

paul

[marti-c]

If you try and view a svhs recorded tape through a normal vhs deck then it is Black and White and grainy. The signal is seperated into luminence and chromanence which to you and i is Black/white and color. Since the vhs deck only deals in a composite signal it sort of messes up the chrominence part so no colour im afraid. Svhs was a big step up at the time from vhs and certainly isnt the quality you are describing!

marti