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You’ve got dozens of VHS tapes tucked away on a shelf in closet? Learn to use Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac to connect VCRs to computer and record video from VHS tapes to DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs here.

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Best way to record old VHS tapes onto DVDs

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 14, 2009 -- Everyone likes to preserve all the memorable lifetime like Weddings, baby's first steps, reunions, or other wonderful times that one day we can enjoy the pleasures of retrospection with family and friends, it's so heart-warming, even romantic!

Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac launched precisely to meet our wishes, it makes you easily capture all the videos on your VHS, Hi8 and V8 tapes, and burn the videos onto a DVD in a few clicks, before creating a DVD from your VHS tapes or analog camcorders, you can edit your captured videos in iMovie to add titles, transitions and other edits. After that you can choose from professional designed menu styles to enhance your created DVD.

Capture and Transfer
Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac can easily hook up VCR to computer, capture videos from analog camcorders and record them on your Mac, so any video can be transferred from analog camcorder tapes and saved to your moive folder in a simple way!

Edit and Burn
You can use Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac to send video captured from VHS/Hi8/V8 tapes to iMove directly, then you can trim and cut video clips, add titles, transitions and other edits. Have edited your video, Roxio can help you create a DVD from video with included Toast 9 (DVD burning software), you can choose from professional designed menu styles to enhance your created DVD.

Convert and Share
Also you can convert recorded video files from VHS player or camcorder to play on most PMP devices including iPod, iPhone and Sony PSP; and upload video to YouTube or your favorite social networking sites that you can share all lifetime with family and friends on DVD, portable devices or online.

Roxio includes a USB 2.0 video capture device that gets plugged into any USB 2.0 port on your Mac, then connected to your VHS deck or analog camcorder. The Easy VHS to DVD software provides step-by-step prompting for connecting video and audio cables to the capture device, recording VHS video onto your Mac, and then offers you the choice to either send captured VHS to the included Toast Basic (DVD-burning software), edit the movie in iMovie, or view it in QuickTime Player.

Step-by-step guides for recording VHS tapes onto DVDs:

Use Easy VHS to DVD for Mac software to record VHS tapes onto DVDs , you will need the following hardware and software:
1. Macintosh computer with a Dual Processor PowerPC G5, or Intel processor;
2. DVD recordable drive for DVD-Video creation;
3. Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5;
4. 512MB RAM;
5. Available USB 2.0 port;
6. iMovie HD, 08, or 09.

Step 1: Install and run Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac.
After you installed Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac on your apple computer, drag the Easy VHS to DVD for Mac folder to the Applications folder on your hard disk.
In the Applications folder on your hard disk, open the Easy VHS to DVD for Mac folder and double-click the Toast Basic icon to launch the included Toast software. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up Toast for the first time.

Step 2: Start VHS player and connect to your Mac.
a. Connect the Roxio Video Capture USB device to a USB 2.0 port on your Mac.
b. Connect the Roxio adapter to the video capture device.
c. Using the video cable provided with your VHS player, connect the video Line Out connector on your VHS player to one of the two video plugs on the Roxio adapter.
d. Connect the two Audio Out connectors on your VHS player to the audio adapter (red and white plugs) attached to your Roxio USB capture device.

Step 3: Capture videos from VHS tapes to Mac.
In the Applications folder on your hard disk, open the Easy VHS to DVD for Mac folder and double-click the Easy VHS to DVD Capture icon. Select a name for your captured VHS video and select an approximate length for the movie you are capturing from VHS tapes.

Step 4: Record captured VHS videos onto DVD.
Open the Easy VHS to DVD for Mac folder and double-click the Toast Basic icon to launch the included Toast software. At the top-left of the Toast window, click "Video", then choose the DVD-Video project to do optional disc settings, such as Automatic or Custom Encoding.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD and click the "Record" button, choose a recorder from the list, then configure recording options, such as Number of Copies. Click "Record" to continue, your VHS videos will be recorded onto DVD in a short time, you can turn off the screen and do something else now, it will do the rest for you.

Learn more about Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac:

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