I had to do this for 35 tapes recently. Three different adapters did not work. I tried it your way and it didn’t work by leaving the full original spool on. I took the full spool on the left side, and tapes it to the right spool. Then I spun it by hand onto the right side. Then, I had to pull the full tape off of the left side, and spliced it. Then I had to rewind it. It was crazy and took 15 minutes per tape. I had to charge hundreds of dollars extra just to do this. The customer was thrilled though. The memories were priceless. I have 29 more I need to do so I am going to try your method again. It would save a lot of time.
Unless it is moldy or showing signs of other progressive disintegration, one should NEVER throw away the original tapes. They have already lasted 20-45 years, and if they're in good condition now, they'll likely last that much longer at least. In the future you may find a better transfer method and you'll need the original tape to take advantage of it. Also, it's one more layer of backup in case you lose your digital files.
I Actually Removed Mould From VHS Tape With VCR Without Cover And Toilet Paper A Few Winds Along That Toilet Paper (tape removed from head) And I Was Succesfully Able To Recover Old Family Videos For My Grandma And Now I'm Gonna Do Old VHS-C Tapes With An Adaptor And I Realized Sharp Didn't Make It It Was Chinese Name slapped Plastic As All Of Them Are
Awesome! Thanks for documenting this. I wasnt feeling like having to buy a adapter just for the digitization of 2 VHS-C Cassettes and then having to resell or trash that adapter..
Thanks for the quick fix :) . Tried this once but I unrolled the whole vhs-c onto a regular vhs wheel. Everything turned out to be upside down and backwards ..any idea what I did wrong?
The spindle/wheel was inserted upside down or something like that? Interesting effect though. Maybe could be fixable with digital video editing when it is digital tho
Actually, you can replace the tape without cutting it. There is a little plug on the ring which is holding the tape at the end, and you can just unplug it and insert new tape.
Don't put them anywhere near speakers or hard drives or motors or phone speakers. Magnetic media only exists in your credit card and just barely now days. Companies stopped considering magnetic shielding years ago. Magnetic things are all around hiding...
you are outstanding ( my brother ) great job ( but I did buy a vidbox ) video conversion suite that is great. but just to let you no ( this video is great )
Great video. I had one vhs c tape. I bought an adaptor. I ran it through an elgato interface, to my laptop. There didn’t appear to be anything on the tape. I threw it away. My friend said I shouldn’t have done that. He said there could’ve been something on the tape. I fished it out of the trash. Could there be something on the vhs c tape? I don’t have the adaptor or the interface any more.
Sorry unless you have some sort of VCR to playback the tape, it's hard to tell if there was anything on it. The above video was a test to see if it actually works. I would imagine you'd be annoyed to go through the whole tape swapping process only to find it really was blank and had nothing on it.
Pero esto no es ninguna ciencia amigo !!!. Antes se hacía lo mismo cuando se rompía un cassette de audio. Se lo cambiaba de la carcaza rota a una nueva en mejores condiciones. Incluso se vendían y eran de color blanco para armar cintas con la duración que uno deseaba. Lo usaban mucho las agencias de publicidad para enviar sus promociones comerciales a las radios.