GUIDES

Home movie guides

Practical articles on digitizing, organizing, and preserving your VHS tape recordings.

How to Organize Digitized Home Movies

After digitizing your VHS tapes you're left with hours of raw footage and no easy way to find anything. Here's how to turn that into a browsable archive.

How to Split VHS Tape Recordings into Individual Scenes

A single VHS tape can hold dozens of separate recordings. Learn how to automatically detect and separate each scene into its own labeled clip.

What to Do After Digitizing Your VHS Tapes

The capture is just step one. Here's what to do next to turn raw footage into an organized family archive you can actually use.

Google Photos Can Finally Store Your VHS Memories

Uploading digitized VHS used to dump everything under today's date. Here's how to store your tape memories so each clip lands on its real date and in albums.

How Long Do VHS Tapes Last?

VHS tapes degrade within 10–25 years, and most are now well past that. How long they really last, the signs of decay, and why to digitize them now.