VCR Recording

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Good day,
I have an Aim AVR2 VCR. I cannot find any reference to it on the internet so I guess that it is a subsidary of some other manufacturer. Anyway, I have an issue and I hope that you can help. I have two of the same VCRs and I record home videos from one to the other, so that I can basically do a rough edit and throw together family history on one tape. Anyway, the issue is this. I have one VCR feeding out and directly into the other via the audio and video cables. The copy of the tape is fine except that the color fades and brightens, fades and brightens, etc. The cable is the best on the market and has traces of gold to sustain the signal, and the VCRs are new. How do I correct this color fading and brightening issue. I have tried to switch VCRs and I still have that problem. I have tried adding a cable to the second VCR and to the TV so that I can see what happens during recording. It appears that everything is perfect, but when I press record, the color fades and brightens. Clearly, I have to have the tape perfect for my family so please help if you can or else can you recommend someone who can help.
Robert
 
If you are recording a store bought pre recorded tape you may be finding the problem is because of copyright protection features. If, on the other hand, you are recording from a home recorded video taape, it is probably due to the original video being recorded at the slowest speed available. This is going to be particularly true if the deck you are using to dub with is also going at its slowest speed. Camcorders are notorious for recording at LP speed instead of SP. Many, in fact, have only one speed available, LP. To get around this, you can record on a VCR at high speed using the camcorder as only the video camera and not the recorder (most camcorders have video and audio RCA jacks that would allow this). The other thing to do to save your previously recorded video is to set the dubbing VCR to its fastest recording speed (SP) to get the best image of the original tape. I know it sounds like a hassle, but realize that is why you don't see TV stations sending out news crews with small hand-held camcorders. They have big cameras and big vans full of recording equipment.

Hope that helps.

Peace, Jim
 
or.. you can buy a video capture card for your computer and do all your editing with it , then export the final edited product back out of the computer into the vcr with 0 signal loss..

just a thought..
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- eddie -
 
Hey, that's cool. What's the cost of such a thing?

Peace, Jim
 
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