This is the equipment I used (excluding my Macbook): Clockwise from the top: VHS player, some of the VHS-C cassettes, VHS-C cassette adapter (with another VHS-C cassette beneath), video capture dongle from Plexgear and a SCART to RCA cable. Luckily, my parents had already done a lot of the hard work by having not one but two VHS players in great shape (one broke down and we had to repair it for $72, but that’s another story). Transferring VHS tapes to a computer requires getting some equipment. ![]() I took me seven years, but last year I decided to finally transfer these tapes to digital form as a Christmas gift to my parents. When we watched some of them, I realized that these tapes needed to be transfered to digital form before they deteriorated further. When I came home for Christmas eight years ago in 2010, my parents had organized all of their old VHS tapes from when I was a kid. This is my guide on how to transfer your VHS tapes to your Mac, so you can store them for the future. ![]() ![]() Memories fade over time and some are easily lost forever, especially if they’re stored on old VHS tapes.
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