Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: DiamondAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Model: VC500
Product features:
- Easy to Use Capture by the Touch of One Button
- Capture Video from Almost Any Video Source
- Preserve Your VHS tapes with One Touch
- Ulead Video Studio SE software Included
- Software included to burn Videos to DVD/VCD
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device
Customer Review: Fantastic Product - Works with Windows 7
Summary: 5 Stars
I had approximately ten personal VHS and VHS-C tapes to copy, since all of my commercial VHS products made it into the trash-can years ago. With this product, I had all of my family's cherished moments burned to my computer (and backed up to DVD) within one evening. I am running Windows 7, and everything worked perfectly. I do agree with others about the directions (they stink), but they really are not needed for the basic transfer fuctions anyway.
Some of the video quality was snowy, but that was due to the quality of the VHS tapes I was copying. I was able to verify this because I tested the product with my DVD player. The video captured from it had no snow at all.
I did not have any of the problems with the volume that was described by some of the other reviewers. I am not sure if it mattered or not, but I had the volume turned up to approximately 2/3, while taping.
I also did not experience any of the audio / video synchronization issues described by reviewers. Again, I don't know if that is a software or hardware issue, but I had no problems there either.
To be fair, there are two potential negatives that I should mention:
First, as mentioned above, the directions are about as close to useless as they can get. Again, this is not much of an issue for the basic video transfer functions, because the process is fairly straight forward. On the other hand, better directions would really help with the more advanced features found in the video editing software.
Second, this product does require you to copy in real-time. In my mind, this is to be expected when copying a VHS tape, but it could be an issue for someone with a ton of material to copy.
Overall, I love this product. It was highly affordable and worked extremely well for me. I can finally put the VHS tape player in the garage, right next to the 8-track player. Hopefully it works as well for all of you as it did for me. Good luck!!!
Description of Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device
Capture videos with the touch of a button with the One Touch Video Capture VC500. The VC500 can capture video and audio from almost any video device, such as VCR, camcorder, DVD player, or any device supporting video output through an S-Video or composite RCA connection.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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