Backup Laser disks?

[Geewhiz]

Does anyone know how to backup laserdisks? I would like to put the songs onto my hard drive in a CDG format and burn those onto regular karaoke CD's.
I have the microstudio suite with a Plextor drive.
I'm not sure what device and software I would need to bring in the laserdisk songs. Thanks.

[Flipeoke]

There are two ways of doing this:

1. Record the music from the laser discs onto your computer as a .wav file, then use KPro to create .cdg files, then burn them to your discs. The downside to this is you lose the background video.

2. The second way (and I'm not too sure how to do this) would be to somehow get the laser disc output into a video capture card, and create a VCD, of course at this point they wouldn't be .cdg files, but most players can use the VCD format...

Perhaps someone else has other solutions...

Flip

[djmadmaxx]

i have had great success transfering to VCD with a tarapin VCD recorder. when i retired my laserdiscs i tranfered the songs that were not on any of my cdg's... and they work great.

But i also agree that ripping the music track as a .Wav file and then running KPro and manually make it a CDG would be a good idea and take alot less disc space. one vcd file is 10-15 times larger than a KMA file.

[kjzone]

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This device connects to your Output on your Amplifier. Just put in your Laster Disc and Play them. Record them right to your harddrive with the Recording Program Provided. You can record all the tracks as a single wave file and the Programs Ripper will seperate them into Tracks. The interface USB device is also some type of Filter, the Sound is Incrediable. Originally made to easily transfer Vinyl Records and Cassettes to your Hard Drive to later burn to a CD, but works great here. 30 Foot Cable is Supplied.

Then using Karaoke Home Producer, create the Lyrics and Sink them in.

[Geewhiz]

Recording the laserdisk as a wave file and then using KHP would work but I have about 75 laserdisks. That would be a lot of work recreating all of the lyrics and sweeping them in to create CDG songs. I wish there were some other way.

[mlepine]

Originally Posted by Geewhiz

Recording the laserdisk as a wave file and then using KHP would work but I have about 75 laserdisks. That would be a lot of work recreating all of the lyrics and sweeping them in to create CDG songs. I wish there were some other way.

In this case, the best option would be capturing both the video & audio with a capturing device. Once imported in the HD use a software to create your chapter which will be for each song and than burn on a DVD!! This way you'll keep the nice graphic behind the lyrics.

You can than use Media Player to read your finished work or a better software like WinDVD which has a good pitch.

MSI offers excellent video card for capturing and with all their free software you'll have everything you need to do the job.

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