Tutorial: Part 1 - Recording to DVD Recorder HDD
As mentiined before, it is a lot more convenient for me to record from Tape player to DVD recorder HDD instead of recording to a PC.
This saves me dismantling the tape player every time I have time to do a recording session.
Tape player Audio output leads (Red and White RCA connectors) were connected to the RCA Audio input connectors on the DVR.
It is important to have a video signal also, otherwise the recording would have a black screen all the time which is not very interesting afterwards during the play.
The Video input signal was taken from Nokia 9600S video output.
With Channel 10 on, the recording session started.
One of the objectives for this backup project was to add chaptering to the recordings so as to have easy access to any part of the tape.
With audio tape, one has to do a fast play, listen, move forward until the required part is reached.
While the recording was on, it was possible to add a visual chaptering mark to the recording by simply pressing the info button on the Nokia 9600S remote for few few seconds and then releasing it back to normal.
See photo below, bottom left side.
At the end of the recording, used edit mode to add chaptering marks to the actual recording on the HDD. The info mark was a great help to see the marks with fast forward on the actual HDD file.
Next a DVD-RW was inserted into the DVD recorder and the tape recording was fast speed copied to the DVD-RW media. Time taken about 4 minutes for 1 hour tape.
The choice of the erasable DVD-RW media is use it as a scratch pad to move the recording between the DVR and the PC.
Next: Extract the audio file only from the DVD |