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.