If I'm hooking-up green, blue and red rca's to red, white and yellow rca's on my vcr which one's for video?

Question

I'm hooking-up my vcr to my laptop. I have 7-pin s-video to 3 rca hd (red, blue and green). My vcr has 3 rca red, white and yellow- mylaptop has 7-pin s-video. I want to record my home made videos to dvd. HELP!

Answer 1

looks like you have Component analog video, prob not a good idea to do  shouldn't do any harm, audio/video may not look/sound right.

Answer 2

I'm guessing here that you're not just using colored RCA cables to hook up red white & yellow connectors on your VCR to the red white & yellow connectors on your TV.

If you're trying to take the red white & yellow connectors on your VCR and hook them to your red green & blue connectors on your TV, you're going to have problems.  No damage, just that you won't get a picture or sound.

On your VCR, the red is right (stereo) audio, white is left (stereo) audio, and yellow is composite (all 3 colors) video.

On your TV, the red green & blue connectors are all component color channels, and red & white connectors are the audio.

If you were to hook up the yellow connector from the VCR to the green connector on your TV, you'd see black & white video.

Answer 3

yellow

Answer 4

Use the green. It is commonly accepted among installers as the "video substitute" for yellow. Just use red to red and blue to white for the audio.

Answer 5

Yellow is the video connector.  Any cable will work as long as you are connecting red white yellow on the vcr to red white yellow on the tv.