SABRENT USB-AVCPT USB 2.0 Audio Video Creator Capture DVD Maker Editor Adapter
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Manufacturer: NEXP7Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Model: USB-AVCPT
Product features:
- Sabrent USB 2.0 Video Capture Adapter provides a link between a PC and a video device with RCA connector or S-Video connector, such VHS, VCR, DVD
- USB 2.0 interface, plug and play. Support brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation control. Capture audio without the sound card.
- Support All Video Formats: DVD+/-R/RW, DVD+/-VR, and DVD-Video. Applying to internet conference / net meeting. Support NTSC, PAL Video format.
- Video input: One RCA composite, One S-Video. Audio input : Stereo audio (RCA)//Dimension (L)88mm x (W)28mm x (H)18mm. USB bus power.
- Package Contents: 1 x EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio, 1 x USB Cable, 1 x Quick Installation Guide, 1 x CD-ROM
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Customer Review: Nice Product, Once You Get It Working
Summary: 4 Stars
This device works very well, and it did just what I wanted it to do (converting home videos to digital media). I'll give it four stars, though, since it's not simple to set up, and there are virtually no instructions. Here's what I did to make mine work:
First of all, I'm running Windows XP, SP3, so I can't speak to the way this product works on Vista. Also, make sure your computer is fairly powerful if you're going to use this device (mine is 2.20 GHz, with 3.46 GB of RAM and plenty of space on the hard drive). Finally, the device only worked for me when it was plugged directly into the USB port on my computer; the USB extension cord provided rendered it inoperable.
--You may need to download the correct drivers for your device. If this is the case (that is, if the device doesn't work properly with the drivers on the CD-ROM), run a search on Google for drivers for STK1160 (not STK1150 as the product would have you believe). Before I downloaded the correct drivers, the device wouldn't transmit video, but after I found them, everything worked great.
--I didn't install the software included on the CD-ROM. As another reviewer has mentioned, there's no need to do this, especially if, as others report, the software is not user-friendly and slows down the computer. I couldn't get this device to work with Adobe products or VirtualDub, but with the right drivers, it did work with Windows Movie Maker. But there are smaller, easier programs that capture video also: see below.
--For capturing videos, I used a free program called Virtual VCR, which you can download after a Google search. I also looked at AMCap, which is great but has a 15-minute capture limit on the software demo (you could purchase the software, though, which isn't expensive). Virtual VCR saves video as AVI files directly to the computer.
--With Virtual VCR, eventually (after about 30 minutes) the audio goes out of sync a bit--but this is fixable through editing of the files. I was able to get much better results with the audio-video sync by choosing video as the "Master Stream in AVI file" on the "AV Sync" tab under "Settings." Otherwise, I had no problems with the audio from this device--everything sounds fine.
--The uncompressed files on the computer will be very large (about 1 GB per minute of video), so make sure you have lots of free space available. On the program you use for capturing, I recommend selecting a codec to compress the video a bit: Huffyuv (not the beta version, but the last stable version) is a lossless codec you can download from the internet that maintains video quality but reduces file size (a 30-minute video file for me was about 12 GB). I did not compress the audio.
--If the AVI files you capture are still too large for you (I saved many at a time, so this happened to me) and you plan to burn them to DVD, convert them to MPEG-2 (DVD) format with a program. There will be a slight loss in quality, which will most likely happen anyway with your DVD authoring program, but the file sizes will be much smaller and more manageable. I used the free, downloadable program ffmpeg (the GUI) for this process, and it actually helped the audio-video sync issues I was having with the longer files--the converted .mpg files were in better sync than the .avi files. After that, you can simply burn the files to DVD with your favorite authoring program.
This device is not at all self-explanatory, but once you start playing with it (and once you download some small programs), you can achieve some really nice results. I'm happy with the audio and video quality, especially for the price--this is a bargain. And the installation of the product couldn't be easier: you just plug it in and go. All in all, this product is very good.
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Description of SABRENT USB-AVCPT USB 2.0 Audio Video Creator Capture DVD Maker Editor Adapter
Sabrent USB 2.0 Video Capture Adapter provides a link between a PC and a video device with RCA connector or S-Video connector, such VHS, VCR, DVD, TV, DV, analog camcorder, camera.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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