Video Capture Converter / VHS To DVD / Capture Analog Video To Digital For Mac And Windows 10 PC

Did my research, this one is most effective converter around. Was looking for one that worked with Windows 10 without problems and was correct to pick this one. It is more or less, plug and play (yes that easy) The red, yellow, white plug into your VCR, the usb goes into computer. It comes with a disc that install the driver and program to use with the license key on the disc pack. Open the program after both ends are plugged in and it pops up three tabs being Capture, Edit, Produce. Insert a VHS tape into your VCR and it will play, rewind, fast forward as you want through the VCR while showing the video on the capture tab screen (can do full screen do), press the capture button and it will start recording it digitally. When you ready can stop the capture recording button, at that point it will just pop up in the edit tap as a segment and you'll go the Produce tab to save as whatever digital format you want it as. I highly suggest going for AVI format and adjusting the tab below to high quality vice the standard option.

It did create an output file, but it's a mess. It plays about a half second of clean video, then plays a frame from a few seconds ago, then plays maybe a quarter second of clean video then half a new frame then half a frame from some arbitrary time ago. After that it apparently gets bored and shows a frame shifted up by half and something else on the bottom, then repeats that performance but left/right rather than up/down. Designed to give you a headache. Note to Amazon: in the "Products related to this item" and "Frequently bought together" sections, please add Tylenol, Excedrin, and Advil.Based on other reviews I tried it on three computers. None worked. Two computers (Windows 10) did generate video files, but the files were chopped up sliced-and-diced messes like described above. One of those showed the video live as it was being recorded, and one didn't. Then I tried it on an old Windows 2000 computer. The software installed and ran, but clicking on the tab that provides capture doesn't do anything (it stays on the "edit" tab, not that you have anything to edit). So I couldn't even get choppy video out of that one.Several wasted hours, and one returned product.

So I bought this to transfer VHS to digital on mu MAC. Will NOT work on the new MACOS but does work on systems thru 10.13, even though the box says 10.5.8 and LATER, so if you are on High Sierra you are good. Also works on Win10. I downloaded the drivers from their website to insure I got the latest ones, install was straight forward, just follow the steps in the .pdf. When launching the app you get a blank screen, go to the 'record' tab and set your audio and video preferences, then hook up and start your playback device, the video will preview on screen, Que up the start point, pause, then select record>start recording, select the pop up start button while taking the device off pause. The one less than good feature is the audio source will default to 'internal mic on initial app launch, so you have to set it to the capture device or you get no sound recorded. Remember that captured video quality is only as good as your source video, and as it is analog it will be 640X480. The audio will mute while recording unless you set it to 'on', but then you get a feedback loop when on preview, this setting also resets to 'off when recording' on app launch. This product does do what it is supposed to and does it well, but with a few odd features, another of which it will only record up to 2.13 GB then stop recording, so no start and forget on a 1-2 hour tale. I like the ability to record in H-264 as this produces smaller files.

We had tons of VHS tapes, family videos we took in the 80s & 90s. Retired now and downsizing into a tiny home, we needed to digitize these priceless memories. We'd used a VHS to DVD converter for a few tapes back in 2010, and sent copies of those DVDs to our kids as we completed conversions.I've spent some time the past 2 weeks comparing competing products for transferring home videos into digital format on my Windows 7 PC and Mac for long-term preservation and so that I can edit the videos on my PC.when I see "digitnow " video grabber , it look exquisite appearance and complete accessories，I decidt try one.A note about video resolution: The analog video tape formats (VHS, Video8, and normal Hi8) all have native video resolutions less than 640x480. All of the video transfer products on the market record the video from these formats at either 640x480 or 720x480. It doesn't really matter which of these two resolutions the product records at. The point is, all of the video transfer products record at higher resolution than the original video, so you are capturing all of the resolution of the original video when you do the video transfer, which is good.But use it on my Mac , I find "the video capture from thedigitnow " video grabber is significantly higher quality than from the others similar products, even same as Hauppauge and Elgato, but I buy it only spent Elgato's 1/3 money .In short I am very happy with the product and highly recommend it. Of course your experience may vary depending upon your hardware.Hardware: Apple iMac (Late 2013) running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, Sony DCR TRV11 NTSC Handicam (2000), Magnavox VRT442 (1996)