GUIDES
Practical articles on digitizing, organizing, and preserving your VHS tape recordings.
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.
A single VHS tape can hold dozens of separate recordings. Learn how to automatically detect and separate each scene into its own labeled clip.
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.
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.
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.
Professional services cost $10–25 per tape and take weeks. DIY is cheaper but requires equipment. Here's how to choose — and what to do with the files either way.
The right temperature, humidity, and position for storing VHS tapes. Proper storage can slow degradation by years — here's exactly what conditions to aim for.
A VCR and a $20 capture card are all you need. Equipment, software, settings, and what to do with the files once the capture is done.
Every VHS tape is really dozens of separate recordings merged into one file. Here's how to split them apart automatically so each event becomes its own labeled clip.