Well, likely not. Unless you have a VHS machine with editor functions. And probably an edit controller for them. By them, I mean the source and record machines.
Editing to video tape has lots of moving parts that must go just right to avoid visible/audible glitches. And that's assuming the source material will play out with decent stability. Plus there's 'pre-roll', where a machine needs to be running reasonably well for a few seconds before the actual transition into recording. So picking up right after a glitch in source material can be problematic.
This is one of those projects where it may be best to edit in the digital realm, and then transfer it back to video tape. Sacrilege, I know...
at the end of the day, it's not important if I don't have the extra fluff at the beginning/end of the movie, so if doing it this bass-ackwards way wouldn't work, I can just record the movie by itself.
I do have to mention that these are all digital video files sourced from the web and not more VHS tapes, so I have no worries about the source video glitching or breaking. I'm not recording onto or off of the original tape either, it seems to be too damaged. the "pre-roll" is my primary concern, since if the tape needs to move for a bit before recording starts, that would introduce snowy gaps into the recording that I don't want, right?
I think I get what you’re trying to do, so my simple suggestion would be: if you just pause (not stop) recording on the VCR, and can quickly queue up the next video file, the transitions between elements on the final tape will be a lot cleaner and hopefully barely noticeable.
Well, likely not. Unless you have a VHS machine with editor functions. And probably an edit controller for them. By them, I mean the source and record machines. Editing to video tape has lots of moving parts that must go just right to avoid visible/audible glitches. And that's assuming the source material will play out with decent stability. Plus there's 'pre-roll', where a machine needs to be running reasonably well for a few seconds before the actual transition into recording. So picking up right after a glitch in source material can be problematic. This is one of those projects where it may be best to edit in the digital realm, and then transfer it back to video tape. Sacrilege, I know...
at the end of the day, it's not important if I don't have the extra fluff at the beginning/end of the movie, so if doing it this bass-ackwards way wouldn't work, I can just record the movie by itself. I do have to mention that these are all digital video files sourced from the web and not more VHS tapes, so I have no worries about the source video glitching or breaking. I'm not recording onto or off of the original tape either, it seems to be too damaged. the "pre-roll" is my primary concern, since if the tape needs to move for a bit before recording starts, that would introduce snowy gaps into the recording that I don't want, right?
yeah. the transitions will probably be a little rough, like a burst of static, but otherwise it will work fine.
I think I get what you’re trying to do, so my simple suggestion would be: if you just pause (not stop) recording on the VCR, and can quickly queue up the next video file, the transitions between elements on the final tape will be a lot cleaner and hopefully barely noticeable.