YouTube subscriber Jonathan B. asks:

Good evening, I hope you and Ponzi are doing well. My question is twofold. First my father is an ordained minister and is currently teaching theology and all related subjects to students in the Philippines. His mentor who he studied under allowed him and others to tape his classes those tapes are in some 14 to 15 years old and if something happens to them since my fathers Bible teacher passed away a few years ago, they cannot be replaced. My fathers other interest is in audio equipment and he knows how to set-up a computer to record audio from these aforementioned tapes. The problem is that we have gone as far as recording them with the “Narrate Timeline” feature in Windows Moviemaker, but such a redneck method means that if we mess up on the audio settings we generally have to start all over recording. My question is this, is there a free program out or one that is moderately priced, that would allow us to record these tapes through a laptop into any format so that we can burn them to c.d.’s or put them on portable players such as ipod’s or another brand name mp3 players, plus eventually put them on a website, to include the obvious feature of being able to control all aspects of the audio.

Digitizing Old VHS Tapes to DVD