I put this video up a year ago and still get comments often about having issues, something isn't working properly, I left out some detail, etc. I don't have time to address most questions and more importantly, I probably can't answer a lot of them. I still use this method to transfer media to tapes and it works for me, that doesn't mean it's the best method for you, I just wanted to share what I'd figured out. I'm not at all a technical person, I'm a designer with a focus on designing the tape boxes themselves. IF YOU NEED HELP a lot of people have left helpful tips and input in the comments, so do a quick scan and you might find an answer. Good luck to everyone, I'm happy to see this has worked for a lot of folks and you can get it working too, it just takes time, experimenting, and troubleshooting!
Valashard. Thanks for the message. I got mine all working fine. My only issue is the sides of my TV screen are not fitted horizontally, and the picture is really squeezed in. The people look like stick figures. Do you know at all how to fix this issue? If not its all good, I'm just taking a stab incase you do. Thanks!!
>tell people "i can't answer a lot of your questions you may have, i'm not a technical person, etc" >people still ask for help anyway that's gotta be hella frustrating to deal with
can you share your method for designing/printing the vhs cases? planning to release some stuff on vhs and this will be a great help but not sure how to go about getting designs printed on vhs boxes unless literally making my own template (maybe that’s the only way?). thanks 👍
This video was 3 years ago and it's still a hit. I bought the HDMI2AV and hooked it up to my VHS and laptop and I was so happy to see the end result. I cannot describe how much this video helped me out.
I doubt anyone will see this comment but he left our 4 important things. 1) Set your laptop display resolution of the HDMI port to 4:3 or your picture will be squeezed horizontally on the VHS tape or you'll have black bars. 2) Make sure the content you're recording onto the VHS is in 4:3 3) If at all possible, make sure the content you're recording onto the tape is 60FPS (this is needed to overcome backwards compatibility problems with progressive footage being driven into an interlaced device 4) If you're not getting sound, tell your laptop to route sound out your HDMI port.
@@dethclik2002 It can. The most important thing is timing. A VCR samples 59.97 images per second, so if you feed it 30 FPS video it will look a little weird. It's important to feed a VCR the type of timing it expects. Basic knowledge of video and digital video is a good thing in this hobby.
@@breal1183 yes I’m well aware and no I don’t think there in production anymore, it’s all outdated tech so they only way is to record over old tapes or find old stock, my grandparents still have some at their house believe it or not still in the original wrapping, I’ve also got some still new and sealed
I love vhs collecting and I especially love cool custom tapes, I always thought bootlegs were like some magic ritual someone did to put a movie on a vhs tape that came out years after it would have even been possible. This was an awesome tutorial I can't wait to start messing around and making personal customs! Thanks for a legitimate and professional tutorial and the links too!
So basically I'm working on an analog horror ARG and want to make a physical tape for a fan who has invested in my serious. I really appreciate you making this tutorial, as it will make this process a lot simpler!
I have been wanting to put my car meet edits on display in my tattoo studio for people to watch in the background and this has answered my question on how to do it. Absolute legend
I gotta say, I love the aesthetic of this video! Also glad to see I'm not the only one who talks to themselves lol Great vid! It's going right into my "useful videos" playlist :)
I play in a 90s style skate punk band, we have been brainstorming ideas of getting that nice vhs aesthetic for a video, this is great. We are going to shoot with a gopro hero 9, edit in premiere, use this method to dump it to tape, then capture back into the computer...sure you can get plug ins, overlays and edit to somewhat get that result, but why not just use an actual vhs? I still have a couple vhs from when I was a kid, so this will work great!
Give it a shot but depending on how good/bad your VCR you might not get too much quality change other than some fuzziness. I actually prefer editing on my computer to achieve a VHS look because my VCRs are in too good of shape to degrade the quality enough haha. The more busted up (but functioning) the VCR, the better grain and glitches you'll get!
Great tutorial! I would love to try that someday. My dad’s Xfinity box has its own A/V output, which makes VHS recording super easy. I can even record from UA-cam if I want to!
That star wipe says it all. You're doing the lord's work here. Supertramp warned us of d-d-d-d-digital. And we didn't listen. Thank you for sharing your analog goodness.
if you don't have a converter you could burn the 4:3 60fps content (as someone else mentioned) to a dvd then connect the dvd player to the vcr and record that
I've been trying to emulate a VHS effect on existing footage using software, but I haven't been happy with the results. I think the best way to get the most authentic look is to just record the footage to a VHS and record that back to the computer. Would you recommend this method? And if so, would it be wiser to use one dummy tape to record the footage onto or to record the footage onto a completely blank tape?
I would definitely start with a dummy tape and maybe pick up a few cheap VCRs to play with, since the weird glitches and effects come from damage. There's a sweet spot between damaged and functioning you want to find to get some cool genuine effects. My VCRs are in good shape so all they really do is make things a little higher contrast and grainy.
THANK YOU THIS IS A LIFESAVER, finally I can put all ov the JJBA OVA onto a VHS and watch it on a TV like it should be watched instead of laptop screen hellll yeah
This was great! Wondering how/where you get your VHS covers printed? I designed my own but am having trouble figuring out the best process to get it printed to look and feel sort of legit.
bro thats exactly what i was looking for, a stupid thing that only vintage fanatics like me does, not an evenly stupid video about how to conver your old movies on digital im so glad vintage community is still so active and that these types of technologies didnt go to waste, i just hope there's people producing vhs recorders or that they will start producing them again in years, because i dont want to see these techs disappear
I can see this vid suddenly shooting up in popularity with this funny thing called anolouge horror rising up, which is why I needed this video, so thanks
me and my best friends make videos of us skating and i’ve recently sparked an interest in collecting tapes, and this really helped out a lot. thank you very much🙏
Yessss! This is exactly what I want to do but all the other tutorials just show how to do it the other way. My friend joked that he'd only watch Tenet in 4:3 VHS. Sounds like a plan!!!
I did something like this one time but I used my Xbox 360 to play what I wanted to put onto tape. Took Night Shift (Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler) from a Digital source, played it through the console and recorded onto the tape. Did the same thing but with the 1990 TMNT movie.
Thank you so much!! I'm using my Spirit Halloween Trick 'r Treat vhs box and making a Trick 'r Treat vhs using this method!!! If you you would you mind doing a tutorial on vhs bogart creation?
I got a vhs player last year and have started collecting some tapes (et, titanic, and clueless have been my best ones so far). But I kinda want to make custom ones like music videos or even home videos. So thanks!!
Thank you so much. I recently moved and left a cursed tape for the new homeowners. I put some ytp on it, Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 2 and a Rick roll on it!
This is amazing. I hate that you need an external power source. Very creative to have you talking to myself. I feel like the zoomer generation is like “vhs, so hard!” I’m a millennial myself and never recorded a vhs myself growing up, but my dad recorded from John Wayne movies for me I still have. Anyway, I’m still learning how to do this stuff myself, and this was a very fun introduction! VHS forever!
Dude thank you I'm planning on scaring the hell out of my family. We have hundreds of VHS tapes from back when dad worked in video. I'm planning on getting them to "find a tape of me in the future, along with events from the past 20 years" I'm the least favourite child
This video came from the Stone Age but he forgot press publish when he was about to smoke all these little kids with a fresh new tutorial on conversion
You do might want to use the color cords to go from a cassette tape player to the laptop to record music from a cassette tape to make slideshows and then put the slideshows on VHS.
I got an old tv with an integrated VHS player that's still works. U dont these many if those still working here in germany, sooo thanks for the video, because I wanted to play stuff on some vhs tapes bc if I build my house someday I wanna design a room only with 90s stuff so I need newer movies to transfer those on vhs so it doesn't get boring besides my kinda 80 other vhs with old classic movies on it
As soon as the HDMI/AV converter goes into my VCR, the display shows color, but when I RECORD it only comes out B&W. I am 100% on NTSC (and checked the switch) and the converter is plugged into USB power.
If you're in the UK, there exist some HDMI to SCART converters. They work similar to the ones on the video, but can produce a higher quality recording than via composite.
@@imotiaver4778 high quality VCRs would have two SCART ports, one for input and another for output. The one that goes to the TV is the output, whereas the source goes into the input.
Did this so that I could complete some collections of franchises where some later films never made it to VHS (I made a VHS Blade Runner 2049 for example).
Thank you! Finally a tutorial on what I want to do! Love retro aesthetic and have a vhs player and some blank tapes! I'm ready to go! There's too many tutorials on the other way round, nobody cares about those!
I’m actually planning on recording “Toy Story 3” on VHS just for the fun of it, not to sell it on a retail site or anything, because that would be considered illegal bootleg, I just wanted to do it just because it’s fun.
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I put this video up a year ago and still get comments often about having issues, something isn't working properly, I left out some detail, etc. I don't have time to address most questions and more importantly, I probably can't answer a lot of them. I still use this method to transfer media to tapes and it works for me, that doesn't mean it's the best method for you, I just wanted to share what I'd figured out. I'm not at all a technical person, I'm a designer with a focus on designing the tape boxes themselves. IF YOU NEED HELP a lot of people have left helpful tips and input in the comments, so do a quick scan and you might find an answer. Good luck to everyone, I'm happy to see this has worked for a lot of folks and you can get it working too, it just takes time, experimenting, and troubleshooting!
Valashard. Thanks for the message. I got mine all working fine. My only issue is the sides of my TV screen are not fitted horizontally, and the picture is really squeezed in. The people look like stick figures. Do you know at all how to fix this issue? If not its all good, I'm just taking a stab incase you do. Thanks!!
time to put random vhs all around my play ground ( btw i found this not mine so dont like )
>tell people "i can't answer a lot of your questions you may have, i'm not a technical person, etc"
>people still ask for help anyway
that's gotta be hella frustrating to deal with
can you share your method for designing/printing the vhs cases? planning to release some stuff on vhs and this will be a great help but not sure how to go about getting designs printed on vhs boxes unless literally making my own template (maybe that’s the only way?). thanks 👍
tnx
I do want to do this for weird aesthetic purposes. You have saved my life.
Same here. This was surprisingly hard info to find. Everytime I googled it, it only found "Convert old VHS to Digital".
@@dirtydirtmcgogurt yep! like "No, that's the exact opposite of what I want"
SKSKKSS ME TOOOOOOO
someone but up a bunch of vhs tapes for free on fb marketplaces im living
Did it work?
This video was 3 years ago and it's still a hit. I bought the HDMI2AV and hooked it up to my VHS and laptop and I was so happy to see the end result. I cannot describe how much this video helped me out.
I doubt anyone will see this comment but he left our 4 important things.
1) Set your laptop display resolution of the HDMI port to 4:3 or your picture will be squeezed horizontally on the VHS tape or you'll have black bars.
2) Make sure the content you're recording onto the VHS is in 4:3
3) If at all possible, make sure the content you're recording onto the tape is 60FPS (this is needed to overcome backwards compatibility problems with progressive footage being driven into an interlaced device
4) If you're not getting sound, tell your laptop to route sound out your HDMI port.
Thank you 👍🏼
Do you know what might cause the recording to come out in black and white?
@@SuperAdamprime Really just depends on your equipment and settings, if you give me a full rundown of your setup I might be able to help.
Does it give it vhs quality?
@@dethclik2002 It can. The most important thing is timing. A VCR samples 59.97 images per second, so if you feed it 30 FPS video it will look a little weird. It's important to feed a VCR the type of timing it expects. Basic knowledge of video and digital video is a good thing in this hobby.
I love this finally someone else with a vhs passion I’m gonna cry
i collect vhs tapes, ik how it feels. there almost forgoten media :(
@Raster YT yeah!!!!! I’m scared soon they’ll be really hard to find or talk abt, even more than they are now :(
@@monomorris6599 I have a place I normally go where they have vhs tapes for 10p each then I tape over them if I have no blank tapes
@@RasterYT only problem with taping over a VHS tape, the more you do it the lesser the quality gets. Do they even still make new ones?
@@breal1183 yes I’m well aware and no I don’t think there in production anymore, it’s all outdated tech so they only way is to record over old tapes or find old stock, my grandparents still have some at their house believe it or not still in the original wrapping, I’ve also got some still new and sealed
I followed this guide (thx) and I put a 6 hour fail compilation on it and sent it to my gramma in Iceland. I have been banned from my family.
That’s sad
did u get banned from that or something else?
I love vhs collecting and I especially love cool custom tapes, I always thought bootlegs were like some magic ritual someone did to put a movie on a vhs tape that came out years after it would have even been possible. This was an awesome tutorial I can't wait to start messing around and making personal customs! Thanks for a legitimate and professional tutorial and the links too!
Same I love collecting them
Fun fact: HDMI cables have a native power supply that can power the converters, so sometimes they work without a USB being plugged in
i did not need to know this information
It happened to me. I thought it was a glitch in a Matrix that my converter is still working without a USB power supply.
Same with VGA I think when it has all the pins anyways!
yep we’ll never works for me lmao
Yeah basically if what I have connected to the adapter doesn’t need an external power source the adapter won’t need it.
This was probably the best tutorial I’ve ever seen. Funny, to the point, the end. Nailed it! Thank you.
Yes, thank you. I'm making a project inspired from a 80's-looking retro horror game called Nun Massacre by Puppet Combo
So basically I'm working on an analog horror ARG and want to make a physical tape for a fan who has invested in my serious. I really appreciate you making this tutorial, as it will make this process a lot simpler!
My partner loves VHS tapes so I'm going to use this to propose next month ❤️ wish me luck 🤞🏾
I have been wanting to put my car meet edits on display in my tattoo studio for people to watch in the background and this has answered my question on how to do it. Absolute legend
You're the only one who could solve this problem for me in a sea of old-to-new videos. Thank you!
I gotta say, I love the aesthetic of this video! Also glad to see I'm not the only one who talks to themselves lol
Great vid! It's going right into my "useful videos" playlist :)
Also I'm subscribing, pls upload moreee
Yes! I am entering this curious project too. Can you believe it, you can have content WITHOUT the internet.
Finally someone who doesn't talk a whole lot of non sense before explaining every little thing you sir are a good man
I love this, thank you. The humor and recording style were perfect. I actually laughed.
I play in a 90s style skate punk band, we have been brainstorming ideas of getting that nice vhs aesthetic for a video, this is great. We are going to shoot with a gopro hero 9, edit in premiere, use this method to dump it to tape, then capture back into the computer...sure you can get plug ins, overlays and edit to somewhat get that result, but why not just use an actual vhs? I still have a couple vhs from when I was a kid, so this will work great!
Give it a shot but depending on how good/bad your VCR you might not get too much quality change other than some fuzziness. I actually prefer editing on my computer to achieve a VHS look because my VCRs are in too good of shape to degrade the quality enough haha. The more busted up (but functioning) the VCR, the better grain and glitches you'll get!
Imma make VHS tapes of all my favorite cartoons and the packaging, thanks for this tutorial!!
Great tutorial! I would love to try that someday. My dad’s Xfinity box has its own A/V output, which makes VHS recording super easy. I can even record from UA-cam if I want to!
That star wipe says it all. You're doing the lord's work here. Supertramp warned us of d-d-d-d-digital. And we didn't listen. Thank you for sharing your analog goodness.
You're like the coolest person I've ever seen bro
if you don't have a converter you could burn the 4:3 60fps content (as someone else mentioned) to a dvd then connect the dvd player to the vcr and record that
I've been trying to emulate a VHS effect on existing footage using software, but I haven't been happy with the results. I think the best way to get the most authentic look is to just record the footage to a VHS and record that back to the computer. Would you recommend this method? And if so, would it be wiser to use one dummy tape to record the footage onto or to record the footage onto a completely blank tape?
I would definitely start with a dummy tape and maybe pick up a few cheap VCRs to play with, since the weird glitches and effects come from damage. There's a sweet spot between damaged and functioning you want to find to get some cool genuine effects. My VCRs are in good shape so all they really do is make things a little higher contrast and grainy.
THANK YOU THIS IS A LIFESAVER, finally I can put all ov the JJBA OVA onto a VHS and watch it on a TV like it should be watched instead of laptop screen hellll yeah
Hey, that’s what I’m gonna do!! : ))
This was great! Wondering how/where you get your VHS covers printed? I designed my own but am having trouble figuring out the best process to get it printed to look and feel sort of legit.
Hey please let me know your process if you have the time!
bro thats exactly what i was looking for, a stupid thing that only vintage fanatics like me does, not an evenly stupid video about how to conver your old movies on digital
im so glad vintage community is still so active and that these types of technologies didnt go to waste, i just hope there's people producing vhs recorders or that they will start producing them again in years, because i dont want to see these techs disappear
Hidden gem of a youtube video, this is fantastic
I can see this vid suddenly shooting up in popularity with this funny thing called anolouge horror rising up, which is why I needed this video, so thanks
This looks and sounds incredibly EZ! Mad props to you and your tutorial, dude!
What a legendary fellow.
I appreciate you man with mustache!
One of the best tutorials I've ever seen for anything
This helped me SO much!! Thank you!! Been looking all over the internet for a video like this!!
Honestly never seen this guy before but this was awesome and extremely helpful!!! Been looking everywhere for how to do this! Thank you
When you raised your voice to shame old to new I jumped and laughed.
me and my best friends make videos of us skating and i’ve recently sparked an interest in collecting tapes, and this really helped out a lot. thank you very much🙏
Yessss! This is exactly what I want to do but all the other tutorials just show how to do it the other way. My friend joked that he'd only watch Tenet in 4:3 VHS. Sounds like a plan!!!
Found this video randomly after my second sesh and extremely happy I did
I did something like this one time but I used my Xbox 360 to play what I wanted to put onto tape. Took Night Shift (Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler) from a Digital source, played it through the console and recorded onto the tape. Did the same thing but with the 1990 TMNT movie.
I’m about to put all the Squimpus McGrimpus videos on VHS tapes now, thank you
That's what I'm gonna do with one of my spare blank tapes too. Might leave it in the park and see if someone picks it up lmao
Thank you so much!! I'm using my Spirit Halloween Trick 'r Treat vhs box and making a Trick 'r Treat vhs using this method!!! If you you would you mind doing a tutorial on vhs bogart creation?
Thank you so much dude you got a new subscriber I love your channel and I love the way you do your videos
Your amazing bro. I love the bit where you rank to yourself XD here's a new subscriber 👌
Great tutorial, thank you for this
Time to Watch Over the Garden Wall as it was always meant to been seen
Haha the guy actually has a VHS tape of that on his Shopify!
this is great,.been wondering how to do this ,now I know ,thank you !
Oh yeah, time to watch modern anime on VHS.
I'm gonna put lucky star on vhs
Just bought the fnaf tape from your website. Bro, this is epic
You’re doing the most and I love it, keep it up king, thanks for the tutorial !!
Hey man ! Great tutorial ! I have a hdmi to avi cable do I still need the box or nah ?
I'm gonna mail the first episode of Mandela catalogue to my friend :)
Glad I subbed to you, I already got a VCR an old tv a laptop, just not the 2 RCA cables and HDMI to AV adaptor
I got a vhs player last year and have started collecting some tapes (et, titanic, and clueless have been my best ones so far). But I kinda want to make custom ones like music videos or even home videos. So thanks!!
Thank you so much. I recently moved and left a cursed tape for the new homeowners. I put some ytp on it, Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 2 and a Rick roll on it!
Alright I did this exactly according to your directions, but it recorded to the tape in black and white. How do I get it to record in color?
This is sooo cool! Thank you, sir!
This is amazing. I hate that you need an external power source. Very creative to have you talking to myself.
I feel like the zoomer generation is like “vhs, so hard!” I’m a millennial myself and never recorded a vhs myself growing up, but my dad recorded from John Wayne movies for me I still have. Anyway, I’m still learning how to do this stuff myself, and this was a very fun introduction! VHS forever!
This is such a specific tutorial for me to look for but this was perfect.
just wanted to say very good and straightforward video. I actually used to do this in forgot and I found this to refresh my memory thanks 👍👍
Great job! Was the more straightforward video yet. One question tho is it necessary to have the tv?
Dude thank you I'm planning on scaring the hell out of my family. We have hundreds of VHS tapes from back when dad worked in video. I'm planning on getting them to "find a tape of me in the future, along with events from the past 20 years"
I'm the least favourite child
incredible. thank you so much
This video came from the Stone Age but he forgot press publish when he was about to smoke all these little kids with a fresh new tutorial on conversion
It's true, I'm 73 now.
This is a magical tutorial partner. Absolutely fantastic. Entertaining and most importantly IT WORKED
When you want to make creepypastas creepier
Love the discussion at the end, very good stuff
I might use this method to put my animations on VHS.
You do might want to use the color cords to go from a cassette tape player to the laptop to record music from a cassette tape to make slideshows and then put the slideshows on VHS.
This also works with a Betamax VCR as well.
im grateful u exist
planned to use this for spooky reasons, danke!
I got an old tv with an integrated VHS player that's still works. U dont these many if those still working here in germany, sooo thanks for the video, because I wanted to play stuff on some vhs tapes bc if I build my house someday I wanna design a room only with 90s stuff so I need newer movies to transfer those on vhs so it doesn't get boring besides my kinda 80 other vhs with old classic movies on it
I got this working perfectly, EXCEPT when I record on the VCR, it comes out in black and white. Any ideas on how to fix this?
As soon as the HDMI/AV converter goes into my VCR, the display shows color, but when I RECORD it only comes out B&W. I am 100% on NTSC (and checked the switch) and the converter is plugged into USB power.
The ending was so silly lmao
If you're in the UK, there exist some HDMI to SCART converters. They work similar to the ones on the video, but can produce a higher quality recording than via composite.
@@imotiaver4778 high quality VCRs would have two SCART ports, one for input and another for output. The one that goes to the TV is the output, whereas the source goes into the input.
@@crisananca313 really you only need a second pair of SCART cables or composite to connect to the TV to monitor activity.
Thank you! You have no idea how helpfull this was for me. This tutorial is easy, straight to the point and all. Thank again!
Did it work for you?
@@robertadaversa2503 It did. I record around 3 hours of content
man, can't wait to start leaving taped vine compilations in random thrift stores
Thanks for the tutorial I appreciate it
Really needed this man thank you and keep up making videos
This is everything I want in a tutorial. Keep it up you crazy skamp!
Thank you for your service (fingers crossed in my pile of cord madness there is an adapter)
Thank god this is simplified
Do we have to use a CRT TV or can we use any TV as long as it has AV ports
that little scripted sequence you had with the tape was pretty schnazzy lol very well done
You make it look simple ngl
(Makes a max and ruby 0004 remake)
(Does this tutorial)
(Puts it in a package labeled MAX AND RUBY)
(Puts the tape on a random shelf on Goodwill)
Did this so that I could complete some collections of franchises where some later films never made it to VHS (I made a VHS Blade Runner 2049 for example).
Thank you! Finally a tutorial on what I want to do! Love retro aesthetic and have a vhs player and some blank tapes! I'm ready to go!
There's too many tutorials on the other way round, nobody cares about those!
I’m actually planning on recording “Toy Story 3” on VHS just for the fun of it, not to sell it on a retail site or anything, because that would be considered illegal bootleg, I just wanted to do it just because it’s fun.
Dude this is awesome, thank you!
i am going to put some very terrifying videos on these tapes and donate them to goodwill
My VCR has only two RCA ports (red and white, I think it's audio because it's written audio), but no red. It has a Scart though. Any help?
this is amazing thanks so much :)
bruh!! thank you so much! about to use your link and buy that off amazon. im going to turn my skim video into vhs! awesome video!!!
awe yeah, it's hecking vaporwave time
You remembered to me like the 90's programs that we watched before lol
Thank you! This is EXACTLY the video I was looking for.
when your tv is only hdmi...
man i gotta buy two of these🤣