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Recording I want to transfer a tape from My cam corder to a vhs tape and put it to music at the same time and I am not sure how this is done, do I transfer the tape first and then add the music or do I put the music on at the same time as I am transferring it, and if so how is this done...
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Maynard McKillen |
Dear Linda: What videotape format does your camcorder use? You didn't mention whether or not the camcorder tape already has some kind of audio on it, i.e., conversation, background sounds, narration, etc. If so, do you want to save that audio and have the music "under it" (at a lower level, sort of background music, like you might hear in a documentary), or have the music replace it entirely? To have the music replace the existing audio, you could connect a video cable (and not any audio cables) from the video output jack on the camcorder to the video input jack on the VCR. Connect audio cable (maybe two audio cables if your VCR accepts stereo input) from the audio output jack(s) of your cassette deck or CD player to the audio input jacks of the VCR. You may have to practice cueing the camcorder's play button and the CD or cassette player's play button to get the music to begin when you want it to, and of course you need to hit the record button on the VCR first(!) If you planned to have the music serve as background to the existing audio, and not replace it entirely, you might find yourself running audio cables from the output jacks on the camcorder, AND either the CD player or cassette player, to the audio input jacks of a small audio mixing board. Such a board would allow you to adjust the loudness of the existing audio and the music to levels you find pleasing. You might find small audio mixers for sale at Radio Shack, might rent one from a music store and get a lesson in how to use it, might even find a place in town to do the mixing for you. I asked you what format your camcorder records in because when a VHS, VHS-C or 8mm camcorder tape is the original, the copy will not look as good when you use the kind of VCR found in most homes. Facilities that routinely copy tapes run the signal out of the source deck and through a Time Base Corrector and sometimes other signal-enhancing electronics, so that the copy is much closer in quality to the original. If your camcorder is Super VHS, Super VHS-C, Hi8mm, or digital, the copy tape should look quite good in VHS, because these formats record at a higher quality level than VHS. When used as source decks, they send the VHS VCR a higher quality signal than the deck can record in. A VHS recording from such source decks will look as if it is an original VHS tape. I hope this gives you some useful background info...
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