Hi, I have recently been digitising some old VHS tapes by connecting an old video recorder to my DVD recorder, and have a few questions about what to do next with the recordings;
1. At the moment, the recordings are stored on my DVD recorder hard drive. If I copy these on to DVD (for possible uploading online at a later date), will they lose anything in quality? The recordings are football clips/highlights etc. that I recorded from TV in the late 80s and early 90s and I'd like to share them online if possible (see below question about copyright). The recordings are of mixed quality - some have survived quite well whereas others aren't so well preserved (the machine refuses to play/rewind/fast forward some of them and sometimes chews up the tape). I suppose I'm wondering whether having a number of stages in the process (VHS-DVR hard drive-DVD-laptop-upload online) will lessen the quality, and if so, whether there is a more direct method, perhaps by connecting my DVR (Panasonic DMR EX79) to my laptop in some way.
2. How worried should I be about copyright? I'd like to share these videos online as I think they'll be of interest to some - is this possible without risking legal problems? Was thinking of setting up a youtube channel but would be happy to send to a licenced hosting/archive site if such a thing exists and they are interested.
Many thanks for reading.
1. At the moment, the recordings are stored on my DVD recorder hard drive. If I copy these on to DVD (for possible uploading online at a later date), will they lose anything in quality? The recordings are football clips/highlights etc. that I recorded from TV in the late 80s and early 90s and I'd like to share them online if possible (see below question about copyright). The recordings are of mixed quality - some have survived quite well whereas others aren't so well preserved (the machine refuses to play/rewind/fast forward some of them and sometimes chews up the tape). I suppose I'm wondering whether having a number of stages in the process (VHS-DVR hard drive-DVD-laptop-upload online) will lessen the quality, and if so, whether there is a more direct method, perhaps by connecting my DVR (Panasonic DMR EX79) to my laptop in some way.
2. How worried should I be about copyright? I'd like to share these videos online as I think they'll be of interest to some - is this possible without risking legal problems? Was thinking of setting up a youtube channel but would be happy to send to a licenced hosting/archive site if such a thing exists and they are interested.
Many thanks for reading.