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This powerful video capture device makes it easy to transfer video from a VCR, DVD player or camcorder onto a DVD or your PC. The included software lets you edit and manage your home movie collection with ease.
Posted by: Orpheus75
from Washington
The video quality is great regardless of how you capture. Having said that, I have to say that if you capture using the DVD/MPEG setting, expect some "skipping" in the playback. It won't show any dropped frames on the software but you'll get it nevertheless.
I believe the encoding process during capture stalls it just enough to create skips but not enough to drop frames.
If you capture using the AVI you will get seamless and beautifull quality. But make sure you have a rather large hard drive to capture full length movies as this will run in to the 10's of gigabytes. A simple 8:46 minutes capture puts it at 1.87 gigabytes.. wow! Then you still have to render it to MPEG to get it to DVD. Expect an overnighter there.
I will problaby be returning this one. I have a DVC150a and wanted something a little more compatible with Studio. It has it's headaches but still at least captures MPEG at seamless beatuful quality [once I get the thing to cooperate with me].
I believe the encoding process during capture stalls it just enough to create skips but not enough to drop frames.
If you capture using the AVI you will get seamless and beautifull quality. But make sure you have a rather large hard drive to capture full length movies as this will run in to the 10's of gigabytes. A simple 8:46 minutes capture puts it at 1.87 gigabytes.. wow! Then you still have to render it to MPEG to get it to DVD. Expect an overnighter there.
I will problaby be returning this one. I have a DVC150a and wanted something a little more compatible with Studio. It has it's headaches but still at least captures MPEG at seamless beatuful quality [once I get the thing to cooperate with me].
What's great about it: Good video quality. Very easy to setup and use.
What's not so great: drops frames/skips playback if capturing using MPEG setting
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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