Who is more foolish, the fool or the one who automatically assumes this is an April Fool's video? 😀😁😂

@CDReimer

5 жыл бұрын

I was hoping for an inexpensive tape backup review. 😋

@xostler

5 жыл бұрын

"Published March 31" It can't be April fools! It's still March!

@TheNews1990

5 жыл бұрын

Huh... Upgrade? To quote Inigo Montoya... "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

@nbrowser

5 жыл бұрын

heh I still keep my i7 950 based system together and functional just for this. Only PC based rig in the entire house with a Firewire port on the motherboard! Still is no slouch even to this day too.

@Silky_boi

5 жыл бұрын

It’s national back up day

April 1st 2020: Upgrading to USB 2.0

@tizzledexter6260

5 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about some od us still only have usb 2.0 lol

@david_r_morgan

5 жыл бұрын

Tizzle Dexter F’s in the chat

@joeldowell5059

5 жыл бұрын

No, I think you mean USB 1.0

@outtheredude

5 жыл бұрын

You may have just inspired me to get a Serial port bracket to complete my 4790K build.

@joeldowell5059

5 жыл бұрын

@@outtheredude You're welcome I guess?

I've always considered myself young but when Paul started explaining what tapes were and I was like "There's no need for this." I knew I was old.

@Dracossaint

5 жыл бұрын

Oof the truth

@fedemtz6

5 жыл бұрын

same, and I'm 16

@PC4USE1

5 жыл бұрын

God, I remember the first Betas,VHS and Laser Discs. Real 20th Century wonder technology.

@ShieTar_

5 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, I've been considering myself young for several decades now ...

I immediately scrolled down to check the release date of the video in the first 5 seconds 😂

@nickdeathpool9529

5 жыл бұрын

🤣 same here!!

Yes, the VHS project would be something I would be interested in. Lots of family recording stored in a box for 20 years. Getting them converted to digital format is something I always wanted to do. A show on that would be something a lot of people would be interested in I'm sure.

@Npolis

5 жыл бұрын

I'll second that

@totisa93

5 жыл бұрын

Same here :D

@Fabri91

5 жыл бұрын

This is something I'd seriously be interested in doing, too

@orcasea59

4 жыл бұрын

An old Panasonic DVX will convert RCA A/V inputs to FireWire output on the fly. I had to do that workaround once. A long time ago.

@cs512tr

2 жыл бұрын

i did something similar for all of my vhs and family vhs tapes and tv recordings, moved them all to pc via elgato video converter, little pricey but after the first tape was running it was worth every penny

Firewire ... that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

@pizzafrenzyman

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of 32-bit VESA local bus slots

@Pasi123

5 жыл бұрын

My motherboard has FireWire :P

@augustcelineiii946

5 жыл бұрын

Firewire is actually still used a lot today.

@seanclowerz6075

5 жыл бұрын

...Old Ben?

@jarvisgarcia2035

5 жыл бұрын

@@seanclowerz6075 LOL I got it!

Defaulted to 240p. Seems appropriate

@statesminds

3 жыл бұрын

Mine went 144 lmfao

Yes VHS tapes please that would be cool hahah

@ahightechlowlife

5 жыл бұрын

I second that. I've been looking for a solution for a couple of VHS tapes that I have.

@Gaming_Groove

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaisercreb maybe composite/RCA out from the VCR to something like an Elgato Game Capture HD? I've used that to capture video/audio from older composite output game consoles and it works pretty well. This is from a PS2 over component and I think I ran a de-interlace process over it, but the capture device supports composite as well. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZ-BzcWteaydcbA.html

@papaburgandy2323

5 жыл бұрын

Very interested in the VHS capture

Those dark single frames that pops up every now and then. I don't know if it's intended or not.

@mjc0961

5 жыл бұрын

I'm just glad it's not a problem on my end.

@dwarf365

5 жыл бұрын

Thought it was my display,thanks for this.

The Asus B350 Prime Plus still includes a couple of PCI slots, which can be useful in a situation like this :)

That’s a shyt camcorder. Get a panny Edit: yes! Do the VCR video. I wanna do that as well!

@SeabooUsMultimedia

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with the vcr video.

I am playing to upgrade to 5.25” floppy disk. Can you give me advice, Paul?

@off_on_one

5 жыл бұрын

The Insider you'll have to use an USB to IDC 34 floppy converter, most modern motherboards don't have a built in floppy controller! (Don't worry I know it is a joke... although this is totally possible, Lazy game reviews has a video about it)

@therainmakerinsider

5 жыл бұрын

OffOnOne I’ve seen his videos, it’s pretty cool. Running DOS on a Ryzen 2600.

Please be Kind, Rewind errr wait. Solid video Paul. I am old so I remember those days using tapes and VCRs etc. The young tykes have it so easy now.

I have two of those cards. They work and that’s why I’ve kept em. :)

Great timing! I was just about to do this!

Yes. Have lots of VHS tapes wound like to back up. I have one interview on TV show Hard Copy to back up to computer. Just have to find a way to do that.

@Otokichi786

5 жыл бұрын

From my Windows PC days, I recall that you need a capture card to process analog video and audio into something that can be stored on Ye Olde HDD or DVD with an authoring program. I started with a Windows program that regularly crashed when it was time to render data. It's almost worth it to send VHS cassettes to a video copying service that will turn it into DVDs.;)

Don't feel too bad with the old tech. I still use CD/DVD/BD-R, though mostly as a hobby.

Thanks for this vid! Brings out a lot of memories. I also have a Mini-DV camcorder sitting around the house, still functions okay. I'm wondering if I can re-purpose it as a webcam if I attach it to the computer via Firewire. Can you test the concept using your PC & camcorder? Thanks!

I went through this just last year. Apparently, it's hard to get functioning cables and driver set up was a pain. It's like everybody forgot how to make old firewire tech. I was actually thinking about getting an old Pentium II or original iMac. I still had the install disk for my old Pinnacle systems software from the 1990's. The tapes do degrade causing the timecodes to jump. On degraded tapes, I found it easier to import the complete tape and manually separating different scenes. I also ended up capturing them multiple times and syncing them in the editor. This way I was able to recover more scenes as they would black out at different intervals. Recording the audio separately from the camcorders analog output also helps for when the digital side cuts out. I actually used audacity and my video software (Vegas) at the same time to capture so only one pass was needed. Some tapes played back perfectly and both audio and video got captured the normal way. Other times it was a mess. I manage to find a sealed, never opened Sony DV cam at an estate sale for $20. It was the exact same model camera I used to record them. Sometimes slapping the camera helps the tape track slightly different and all of a sudden everything works. Good Luck. Years from now we will be like how do we get all our videos off of those DVD and Blueray disks?

From what I can remember, using the on-board FireWire port and Premiere, would grab audio and video simultaneously from my Sony mini-DV camcorder.

HEy, i have one PCI Firewire 1394 card... but my motherboard have just one slot to the videocard. Need i remove my videocard when capture the mini dvs?

We have recordings of every vintage, going all the way back to my parents' wedding recorded (audio only) on a metal wire. Thanks for the interesting video.

Oh man, I remember offloading a huge set of tapes for a family friend. Fortunately, my 990fx Mobo still had FireWire 800 on it. It took so many hours, but she paid well

FireWire. Now that’s something I haven’t heard in about a decade.

for anyone who wants to do this - there are PCI to PCIE adapters, and some newer boards still have a PCI slot (I had a Gigabyte H270 board with 1 PCI slot)

I still have a pair of JVC mini DV cameras. The time code capture was really nice because I would just start and stop them along with the capture. was using it back in the day to capture Rock band videos.

Amusingly enough, I've recently found some old DV tapes that I've been trying to figure out a way to back up. Thanks for the ideas!

Hi Paul, I have a question.. My father has an old Casablanca video editing maching (excepts Firewire and RCA inputs only) and wants to import mp4s through a converter box to a firewire into the Cassablanca. Is there such an animal? Help thanks John

My motherboard, a Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite, has no IEEE 1394 port, which I need to connect my front panel firewire found in my case. Is there a way to find an adapter or PCIe card where I can connect 2x5-pin cable plug from my case? Thank you.

@DeepSouthTechie

2 жыл бұрын

I know this is a couple months late but I bought a Firewire PCIE card through Amazon and although my computers device manager shows the card my Sony DV Handycam is not showing up. I'm on day 2 of trying to resolve this issue but so far I'm pulling my hair out.

haha this is awesome. I'm literally doing this right now with my old home videos.

I remember capturing my skate footage as a kid using a sony tape cam and windows movie maker. Having to play it back to record it basically. The import process was always the hardest part.

YES THANK YOU I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS THAT'S FROM A WELL KNOW SOURCE!!!

Aw man this is a nostalgia trip!

Hey Paul I actually just inherited a bunch of mini dv tapes from my Dad who passed recently and wasn't sure how to go about putting them on my computer so found this pretty helpful

Can you use this way in obs as a webcam on windows 10? I have an old canon camera like that going to waste. Could you do a video on that?

It is good to see reviewers being interested in old stuff.

TAPE! also on the capture problem with Premiere capturing use another program, Premiere has lots of problems with capturing via firewire/strange compatibility problems with some cameras.

@masonfamily6124

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I found some programs worked and others did not. You can actually capture in window movie maker but Microsoft stopped making it available! But I found Vegas to be the most intuitive and trouble-free.

Good luck hope it works out for you. Glad to see I am not the only one attempting to do this.

@sl5311

3 ай бұрын

How did it go? What did you do?

Hey Paul, I just went through this process myself a few months ago. What worked for me was to use VLC and use the camera as a "capture device" and stream to file. It's also worth noting that FireWire is not technically plug and play (although it often does work). So anytime you plug or unplug the camera it's recommended to power cycle the computer and the camera to make sure it all initializes properly.

At first I was like, hey they must have created some kind of new Firewire tech. That would be cool. Wife!!! Break out the old camera. But sadly no. So thanks for that Paul. Have a great day.

I still remember vividly my first few interactions with a VHS camcorder. Once in highschool we had a pretty cool video productions class. I was obsessed with it. We recorded on VHS and then transferred to some Apple imacs. On there we would edit with imovies. What sucked was that the other students would leave the capture going and fill the hard drives and crash the machine. This caused me to lose my projects every few weeks. I still receive an A because the teacher saw how obsessive I was editing at lunch and after school. Memories and such.

went thru the same thing last month. had to buy a firewire card to archive all those old tapes OR I could have drug out a dusty desktop I had from 2008 which came with a built-in firewire port. I went with option A.

I was mostly interested in the actual firewire card, though congrats on backing up your old film class projects. I have a firewire audio interface and wondered if there's a way to use that in my new PC. Thanks for the video.

I went through this a while back, miniDV and a bunch of digital 8. It was like reliving years of my life. It’ll get you in the feels. Enjoy!

OK, you got me with that title. Nice work.

525 lines were nominal. There were 480 active lines and NTSC is interlaced, so 240 lines to each field, or 480p, 30 Hz refresh

Wow great video, takes me back to my Sony vx1000 days late 90s :-)

I use both Windows and Apple laptops these days, having crossed the line a bit after Y2K with a Macintosh SE 4/40. This digital video tape > HDD via FireWire reminds of when I upgraded to recordable DVDs and began transferring early 1980's VCR recordings to DVD. At first, I looked at any of the G4 (PowerPC) PowerBooks, not learning until later that I would need at least a 1GHz PowerPC chip to encode video. My oldest G4 PowerBook is a 1.5Ghz PowerPC unit that "does video" and takes a standard FireWire 400 cable that connects to a LaCie DVD recorder. Before this portable solution got worked out, I also installed/configured/troubleshot a FireWire PCI card in the 1990's when I was using the Nero DVD burning program on Windows. Yes, I recall the days when USB 1.1 was left in the dust by FireWire 400, which could also beat USB 2.0 for a time.

Just picked up a old vx2000 to film skate vids. So this helped a lot thanks!

Nice video Paul, it really took me back some years when I used to edit my family holidays videos and a few jobs using MiniDVI tapes, those things where so heavy... like over 10GB an hour only for 480p... VHS!!! My god, I have so many things on old VHS! Not sure if I will ever get to backup up those to newer formats, but I'd love to see someone doing it just for fun hahaha

Tape spools to reels :) Great content as usual

Absolutely love the idea about vhs to dvd

Am I too young to still have a PC that I purchased refurbwith FW? It's a 2011 Mac Mini I got from OWC. I got that to use as a Media center but I ended up using it for a few years as a primary PC through HS when I was in my "Apple phase". I use it from time to time to ingest videos, especially from a FW Handicam through iMovie.

My brain froze for a sec... I was wonderin if a new firewire standard had been released of if I just didn't know that FW could compete with today's standard... Than it hit me. Good job.

Now this is old school tech, this stuff is nostalgic lol

@kayceem2335

5 жыл бұрын

Nu uhhh only 18 years or so when i was in college . Just like yesterday :D

@tizzledexter6260

5 жыл бұрын

@@kayceem2335 college who remembers that, noone who had a fun time, ROFL

Bruh the Backyardigans on the vhs was my childhood. Brings back good memories lol

Those videos are amazing. I never knew you were such an amazing producer, wait I did. Wonder what your movies would've been like in an alternate reality

Nice intro. Made me check the date.

If you can find a Panasonic DVX cheap and you can only output the old RCA connectors, then the DVX has both RCA inputs and a FireWire. The good thing is that the ins & outs are bi-directional, so you can input RCA and output FireWire simultaneously, thus capturing analog video. When DigiDesign bought Pinnacle years ago they sent out firmware "upgrades" that bricked my Pinnacle capture board and this was a workaround I discovered. So those analog video formats material need not go forgotten.

I have firewire built into my case and MoBo and network. I even rand a run from my networking closet. But I never could get it to work.

NOt bad for almost 20 yrs ago ;) I go back further, my friends and I used to record with either VHS camcorder, which I have in the closet, but probably is dead, and sometimes we used Super-8 tapes etc. We thought we'd be the next Spielbergs xD Thanks for sharing, Paul!

I've done a few mini DV to dig. And I've found that even though mini DV is a standard some manufacturers did their own thing here and there.

This is why I like Paul, he can get an April fools joke in and turn it into something informative so I'm not just wasting 10 minutes of my life on it 😃

Funny enough I just started this project myself with all of my minidv tapes after finally finding a minidv cam to use with FireWire. Also flip out lcd’s had been around for a long time prior to that gen cam

I'm getting the lines during playback. Did the cleaning work or did you do something else? Thanks

@sl5311

3 ай бұрын

What did you end up doing?

All my tapes have sticky shed syndome, how do I fix? :(

I backed up a bunch of old tapes (VHS, 8mm, Beta) using a Canopus ADVC-55. Uses S-Video or standard video/audo in and produces digital video out to firewire. Worked like a charm.

@davidfleming3978

5 жыл бұрын

I still have an ADVC-100. Nice little box.

I used to capture video tape using my ATI All in Wonder Card. That thing is long long gone.

@zuestoots5176

5 жыл бұрын

I remember the All in wonder. that was my upgrade to play NFSu2 on High Settings.

I don't remember capturing footage to be this difficult back in high school. Audio was captured as it was recorded, digitally.

I'm noticing weird black-frames popping in and out periodically in the video. Any clues?

Liked for the VHS 📼 backup !

I just did the same thing for a friend who had a bunch of DV tapes he wanted archived. It was the longest 3 days in my life lol. Actually i just setup a 2nd pc and let it run.

Also a great tip, if you have VHS tapes, some of these dv cams have the best converters in them. Simply run VHS int the input of the dv cam and use its built in converters to capture via firewire. In your case, you need a better camera that can read those tapes. I've had great success with Panasonic, staying away from the tiny cheap looking ones.

My Q9650 retro build still has that exact same sound card, complete with the MIDI/game port bracket! I also have a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard in my 4790K main build that has a PCI slot too.

I thought about getting another vid camera like yours to convert old DV tapes I have but.....remembered a guy nextdoor has his own business doing tape/DVD conversions lol the only thing I have firewire use for, is my Focusrite audio interface

The title of this video gave me old school vibes!!!

I had that same background for the longest time!!!

I remember using Firewire for for my MiniDV cam in 2004, it was a royal pain in the butt syncing it to your computer though.

Thanks for helping determine the Young/Old threshold..... Young:- ‘What’s a VHS?’ Old:- ‘Ooh VHS, those were the days’

Cool !

Wow this takes me back, but good video, i have some dv tapes as well so thx again for the video lol

Is your desktop background picture in this video the Tree Tunnel from your visit in January here on Kauai?

OMG you do give off that church media guy vibe. Never been able to nail it down until you mentioned it.

Ha, did the same thing a month ago. I started by going to Best buy to ask if they had a FireWire card, the kids there thought I was speaking German, they had no idea what FireWire was. I even made the same mistake on getting the wrong PCi-e card from Amazon. My next project is to get my family's 8mm converted.

magnetic tape is still the most reliable form of storage (or so I hear) so keep those handy. also this is the first one of your videos that's popped up in my news feed for awhiule so it got an automatic like and comment... good to see ya Paul!

Yes, please do VHS next! My mother has some old family tapes she wants to convert to digital.

Man, all this brings me back to highschool when all the video projects were on DV tapes.

Ha awesome. I recently did this with my ancient toshiba handycam DV .i had better luck with getting my firewire connection to work and being able to use the pc to control the camcorder ie pausese play record stop eject and audio left right. I did have problems with 1 cable and swapped it for another one i had lying around . Highschool videos were soo funny to watch back :D

If you could make a video on how to convert VHS tapes to digital on the computer, it would be appreciated. My father tried it last year and had to get some timing equipment just to get partial of the videos. What a pain!

For capturing your VHS content, go to Costco and grab one of those DVD/VHS combo systems, the ones they're currently selling (at least in my area) have DVD-RW support that allows you to use it as a DVR for TV, or back up old VHS tapes to DVD, which you could easily rip back onto your PC and process.

To capture VHS tapes I use a cheap $7 USB2.0 component video capture device and a Goodwill VCR ($20 at my local goodwill), then use VLC to capture the playback. Total cost including software is less than $30 because I ran it on my Linux machine .

can someone help me: if I play games on my PC it runs stable for about 15 minutes and then everything goes black I sometimes hear the music even further playing sometimes it stops I have nothing overclocked specs i7 6700k gtx 980ti I have never had this problem before before, this problem has been working 2 months now, and I have often reset my pc to facotry what can I do about it?

@kayceem2335

5 жыл бұрын

Linus tech tips forum for help

is there a way to do the same thing using a laptop?

Audigy 2ZS I remember that sound card... I think I still have it in an old computer somewhere... I used to use the FireWire with a FireWire webcam... those were the days!

Must be nice to have all those handy wires and connections just laying around :)

I've installed the Firewire card, the computer is seeing it, but none of my software is seeing the camera (Premier Pro, Magix or WINDV) Likely problems? Just the firewire wire? I'm hoping not to have to buy another camera just to do this.

@sl5311

3 ай бұрын

What did you end up doing?

@RooniusMaximus

3 ай бұрын

@@sl5311 binning it.

@sl5311

3 ай бұрын

@@RooniusMaximus sorry mate, when you say binning it, did that mean you dropped the Firewire idea and bought a new video camera?

@RooniusMaximus

3 ай бұрын

@@sl5311 I ended up uninstalling the FireWire card. Nothing I did would work, I also investigated going down the Apple FireWire to USB route. But that didn’t work for me either. To be honest, all the money I’ve spent on trying to do it myself, I would have been better to send them off and get them done professionally.

Yes i would love to see how to back up VHS to computer and if you can also think about building a NAS system from a older computer would be great . Thanks Steve

Have tons of these in my storage. A VTR to play them back

Best of luck digitizing the vhs tapes. I know my mom has a Panasonic VHS-DVD combo unit in her living room and it had VHS->DVD copy functionality, but I cannot remember the complications with that process. I'll be looking forward to seeing that video in the future!

I actually still use my Sony handycam for making small short films. It uses the same DV tapes. It's interesting to see a well known KZreadr use the same method i found.