Technology marches ever onward and, as it does, it carries us right along with it. In the early 1980s, as VCRs dropped in price and appeared in more and more homes, there was a sudden mass appeal for people to have their old Super 8 home movies converted to video cassette. Video tapes last far longer than film and it just made sense to convert those old reels into a more watchable and compact format. People brought their movies of their babys first steps, birthday parties, and weddings and turned them into video tapes. Not long after that, video cameras became cost good for all the people to buy and those old super 8 cameras and projectors went the way of the dodo. People began using video tape for everything and the wedding video was born.

Technology has shifted yet again, folks. You might have noticed less and less video tapes at your local Blockbuster store. The medium is becoming extinct, replaced by DVD. Guess what? Its time to convert yet again. DVD discs last far longer than video tape, offer higher quality photo and sound, and might run longer than video cassettes. By converting your wedding videos to DVD you might ensure that the memories you saved will last even longer.

The process of converting your wedding video to DVD is not complicated, but to do it yourself you will positive need some special equipment. Obviously youll need a DVD recording device and a specific way for your VCR to connect to it. If you have a DVD burner on your computer, youre halfway there. You will also positive need a way for your VCR to interface with your computer. Most computers do not come shipped with a way to do this. You will positive need to install a TV card on your computer that has inputs that match your VCRs outputs. Most TV cards do have both RF and A/V inputs.

Next youll absolutely need to record the wedding video onto the computers hard drive. You may need special software to do this if your TV card didnt come with any bundled. Sonys Vegas Video is a nice one, but there are a number of different titles available. Keep in mind that the video will take up a lot of drive space. In order for the video to be placed on DVD it will have to be in an MPEG format. Your video recording software should be able to save it this way. Once that is done, its simply a matter of using your DVD burning software to transfer the video onto a DVD disc that you might then watch on any DVD player. The software will have instructions for doing this. Once the process (which might take some measure , be warned) is complete, viola! Your wedding video is now on DVD and may be enjoyed forever.

If you dont have or cant afford the equipment and software to follow the preceding steps, fear not. There are companies that can take away all of the hassle and transfer your wedding videos to DVD for you, for a price. Whichever method you choose will have the same finish result and youll be enjoying your old wedding videos and other home movies on a new format thats built to last.