Your VHS-C camcorder should have a composite video output RCA jack (usually yellow in color). It should also have an audio output RCA jack (usually white in color). Since the audio is monaural, I would go to Radio Shack and get an adapter wye cable that will split that single audio output from the camcorder into 2 audio outputs. Then just plug those 2 audio outputs and the video output into the analog inputs on the stand alone DVD recorder. These recorders burn full size 4.7GB DVD’s that will easily hold 2 hours of VHS quality video using the SP recording quality.
I would highly recommend getting one with a built in hard drive so that you can do a little editing and you can place chapter points where you want them. Without the HDD, chapter points get placed randomly about every 5 minutes and you can’t trim out the garbage at the beginning and ending of the capture. You probably want to cut out a few scenes of noise, ground shots where you didn’t know the camera was on, etc? I think the current Panasonic DMR-E85 is a nice unit for less than $500.
That is all you should need to do the job. Your camcorder probably came with the cable you need? The only cable you would need is the adapter cable to convert the camcorder mono output into 2 mono outputs so that you don’t have one of the DVD stereo audio tracks with no audio recorded on it.
You just play your tapes in your camcorder and record them on the recorders hard drive. the hard drive will hold over 50 hours of SP quality video. Then you just select the video segments that you have on the hard drive that you want to transfer to the 4.7GB DVD-R (2 hours maximum at SP quality). You can have menu buttons with thumbnail pictures, to select which segments of the DVD that you want to start playing. After that section or program has completed playing, the player will jump to the next sequential program and start playing that one.
Dave
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