With VHS disappearing rapidly and having a bank of VHS video, I'd like to know if there's a simple but viable way to connect a VCR to an iPad and record the video directly to the iPad? I work in a school and have a lot of video's to convert and funding is of course, tight. But, we have iPads and VCR's.
I can't dedicate a PC or the MacBook to the process, but I can dedicate a couple iPads and VCR's.
iPad 2, iOS 6.0.1
Believe it or not, way back in the late 80's, when I was a police officer in a small local rural community, I borrowed a camcorder from the local community college and did almost this very same thing with a 16mm film / projector. I put a Treasury Dept. 16mm training film on VHS for our and an adjacent jurisdiction that is also small. There was some degradation, but it still served the purpose. I was hoping that some innovative company, like a Blackbox, had created the attachable accessories along with a software package to turn the iPad into a makeshift on-the-fly
DVR.
What I mean is u go into camera app on your iPad set it to video then push record whilst the video is playing on the tv the quality would not be the best however this way would be the simplest way to put it directly onto your iPad,try it see what the quality is like.
The easiest way is to fix your iPad in position n front of the tv and push play on your VHS player push record on your iPad.
Not an iPad. DOesn't have enough processing power or inputs.
You want the PC or MAC and software and connections (which I know you don't have) or find a dvd recorder. They even sell some that are made to go directly from VHS to DVD. I converted several hundred VHS tapes to DVD iwth a DVD recorder that had a harddrive so i could record it onto the harddrive then fill up a DVD.
Thank all of you for your ideas!
Capture VHS directly on the iPad
