VHS to DVD

[Den67]

I am hoping someone can help. Does anyone know if there is hardware available to convert VHS to DVD that works with macOS Catalina 10.15.4. I was looking at Roxio VHS to DVD for Mac but several reviews suggest that it does not work with macOS Catalina. Thank you in advance

 

[Dave Braine]

This has been a favourite for Macs for a long time.

Video Capture

Digitize video from a VCR, camcorder and other analog video sources for playback on your Mac, PC and iPad. Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as a high-quality H.264 file. Elgato Video Capture’s e

www.elgato.com

It doesn't create the dvd, just imports the video, but making the dvd is simple with Burn:

Burn - Home

burn-osx.sourceforge.io

 

[dandeco]

This has been a favourite for Macs for a long time.

Video Capture

Digitize video from a VCR, camcorder and other analog video sources for playback on your Mac, PC and iPad. Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as a high-quality H.264 file. Elgato Video Capture’s e

www.elgato.com

It doesn't create the dvd, just imports the video, but making the dvd is simple with Burn:

Burn - Home

burn-osx.sourceforge.io

Yep, that currently seems to be the only USB analog video capture device that works with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina.
If you have a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder and some means to connect it to the Mac (i.e. a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter), you might be able to use that as an analog-to-digital video converter, provided the camcorder supports analog-to-digital passthrough or dubbing. Then you can capture the analog footage directly into iMovie or whatever.

 

[guzhogi]

This has been a favourite for Macs for a long time.

Video Capture

Digitize video from a VCR, camcorder and other analog video sources for playback on your Mac, PC and iPad. Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as a high-quality H.264 file. Elgato Video Capture’s e

www.elgato.com

It doesn't create the dvd, just imports the video, but making the dvd is simple with Burn:

Burn - Home

burn-osx.sourceforge.io

I've used that, too, but not in a few years. Pretty decent, though it can take awhile to import as it has to import in real time. The software does let you specify how long the video is, and will stop importing after whatever time you set. If you know how long the video is, great. If not, you can have it record indefinitely, which can waste a bit of time. Fortunately, once you stop importing, it allows you to trim the video (both the beginning and end).

 

[BrianBaughn]

There's another recent thread on this:

Best VHS to DVD Mac Solution?

With Mac OS Catalina just about everything related to VHS to DVD conversion broke. I had a bunch of different ones from over the years: Roxio, Vidbox, Honestech, Startech which are no longer supported. Running them in virtual machines is also buggy. I had figured almost all of these were...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[Dave Braine]

it can take awhile to import as it has to import in real time.

Any device importing tape based video will be the same.