Have you ever though about what you going to do with all those old videotapes you have? VHS is pretty much gone for good, because of the way technology keep advancing, we have to adapt to the new DVD players now avaible. But their is still a the problem of transferring your old videotape to DVD. It is not as easy as some manufacture state. If you have a personal computer, and wanted to do it yourself, you would need to get the videotape footage into the computer, first.

In order to accomplish that, you will need a converter box to convert the videotapes into digital format to the computer. Your old videotapes are analog format, which has to be converted to digital to be edited on a computer. Converting your old videotapes to digital will restore them for many years to come; they also look brighter, crisper, and sound better. Once the videotapes are in the computer, you would need a video-editing program to edit your digitalize footage.

Both computers, MAC or PC can do video editing. Mac computers come with a standard video editing program imovie. If you wanted to go professional, then there is another program, final cut studio; cost $1299.99 that come bundle with DVD authoring software, soundtrack pro for your music editing, live type for your titles, and compressor for compressing your video to different file formats. On the other hand with a PC computer,
you can get very inexpensive software for under a hundred dollars that would get you going.