ok so i just bought a new comp with dvd burner and capture card and blah blah blah SO i wanna convert alot of my shows from VHS to DVD now.

i got a show on my comp but the only prob is it has really bad hiss through out the audio. is there any program or way to decrease the hiss or what do i do? i'm pretty new at this so any and all help would be great, thanks.

There are audio reduction techniques and programs available. Some audio editors like Adobe Audition have noise reduction filters built in. With these programs, what you do is sample a part of the audio that only contains the noise or hiss you want to remove. The software then analyzes the noise and does it's best to remove it from the rest of the file.

There are also plugins you can get that try and remove noise from audio files with varying results.

I tried that with Cool Edit Pro a few times - the results vary, but generally you have to be carful not to set the filtering "too high", otheriwise the recording will end up sounding very badly (metallic sound as from poor audio compression)

Yep. Basically, the worse the hiss noise that needs to be removed, the more the quality of the original audio will go down from it's removal and you will get that digital underwater or metallic noise.

thanks for the tip i'll have to give that program a try.

and also whats the best way to connect the feed into my computer? i'm useing the video/audio out on the tv right to the computer. is there a better way to do this or is that good

Your best bet will certainly be to get the FLAC/SHN/WAV files from recordings of the shows you are converting and use that audio instead. Even if it is the same recording as the one on the VHS, it will still sound better. You can look for torrents or otherwise make a post in the trading forum for the shows you need.