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Summary: Video Audio Synchronization
Review: I worked for hours, followed all of Avermedia's reccomendations to optimize my cpu. I have a new 3ghz Dell and I could never get the audio to match the video. In the captured video the person would speak, 3 second later I hear them.
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Summary: Video Audio Synchronization
Review: I worked for hours, followed all of Avermedia's reccomendations to optimize my cpu. I have a new 3ghz Dell and I could never get the audio to match the video. In the captured video the person would speak, 3 second later I hear them.
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Summary: Almost perfect capture device
Review: If you are looking for a device to capture your VHS collection, then this is it. I bought it from Amazon in January 2004.My two complaints are minor:
1. I emailed these people, and I have not received a response.
2. The software is now at 5.0. But when I received the CD along with the hardware, the software version is at 4.5 (which is why I e-mailed them). If you go to their website, they want you to pay an extra $30.00 for the latest version of the software. I payed $200.00 on another device from another company (that starts with a letter P). Worthless piece of junk! Processor built in to that one, but of course, they aren't going to place a Pentium 4 processor for the (P) device. None-the-less, the External Video Capture Device
by AVERMEDIA does work great! It uses your computer's processor to handle the videotapes. (My computer has a Pentium 4 2.4 gigahertz processor.) Don't hesitate buying this one, and the price is right too!!!
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Summary: Just didn't work
Review: Not much to say really. Installation went ok, no real problems. But when I hooked up a VCR to the setup, all I got was ridiculously choppy images. The footage was only refreshing itself every minute or so! I tried capturing the footage to check if perhaps the preview was poor, and that didn't work. I tried opening up the editing SW out of interest, and got an error message before it even opened. Restarting the computer didn't help. To add insult to injury, the technical support number isn't provided unless you log onto the internet and register the product... why don't they just give it to us? What do they think I'm going to do, prank call them with made up video capture problems?! Packed it up and sent it back. I decided to spend a little more and purchased the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 (Model 941) - hopefully I'll have a little more luck.
To be fair, the product seems to keep getting 1 or 5 stars. I guess that's the difference between it working and not working! For me, it simply didn't work - so just the one star.
The specs of my computer are as follows:
512MB RAM
Athlon AD 3100+
Windows XP SP2
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Summary: Thumps Up. took me 10 mins to make it up and running
Review: Pros: Compact/Simple/Easy to install. Device was detected on my first attempt and the resolution is also great. Works with Windows Movie Creator software. Cons: Software Interface. Provided software crashed when I had the USB plugged in. Have to unplug & launch the software again. So, be ready to do in-&-out.
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Summary: Simply Amazing: AVerMedia DVD EZMaker USB 2.0
Review: Simply amazing! This palm-sized video capture device has on one side 3 composite video cables (yellow, white, and red) and an S-Video connection, and then on the other side a USB 2.0 connection and a sound cable that connects to your sound card. You can use it to capture VHS and even videogames in action into your computer, turning them into digital files that can be burned to CDs/DVDs very easily. The only catch is that you'll need a reasonably powerful computer in order to use it.
My computer is using Windows 2000 & XP Home, a 2GHz Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB memory, and an AGP 8x GeForce FX 5200 videocard. On an even more technical note: My system uses the KT400 northbridge/VT 8235 southbridge chipset, and yet this device still works great on my system! I mention this because I was very surprised to see this note in the instructions- "This device requires the system to support isochronous transfer. At present, VIA KT400, KT333 and K266A chipset motherboards are not supported.; VIA 8235 and VT6202 chipsets can only operate on Windows XP & 2000." It's a confusing note because the KT400 (which the note states isn't supported) actually comes with the VT 8235 (which can run with 2000/XP). In any case, confusing note aside, my KT400/VT8235 chipset/system and this device work great together! I'm sure anyone with a similar setup will be okay. This device's minimum requirements are Windows 2000/XP; a P4 2GHz/Athlon XP 2100+; 256MB DDR memory, AGP 4x videocard; audio line-in with soundcard; and most importantly- USB 2.0 compatibility. An ordinary USB 1.1 connection will barely work, if at all.
My favorite thing here is the 2 very nice software applications included: Broderbund's MovieShop Select 6.5 (my favorite), and Mediostream's neoDVDstandard 4. These are excellent programs for beginners! Either one can be used during video-capturing, as they both have nice preview screens that show exactly what your VHS player or video game system is playing at the moment (You can play videogames within Windows! I've played Crazy Taxi with my Dreamcast attached to this product, and the live-action footage is captured into the computer). MovieShop automatically converts captures to Quicktime, while neoDVD converts to MPEG-2. Once captured, these programs can re-encode clips to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Quicktime, or AVI- it's your choice. While MovieShop requires 1024 by 768 screen resolution, neoDVD works well in either 1024 by 768 or 800 by 600, which makes the preview screen even larger. The main difficulty I've had with this product so far is that I've occasionally had trouble with the sound and video being out-of-sync a bit after a capture. This doesn't always happen, and when it does I usually just start the process over again and it works fine, or I just capture video in the other of the 2 software programs included (when MovieShop gives me trouble with a particular clip, I just switch to neoDVD and everything's usually okay). It's also important to note that while MovieShop's preview screen shows your video/videogame footage very smoothly during capture, neoDVD's preview will always become jerky-looking, which can be very disconcerting, but the capture actually turns out well nonetheless. If you're capturing a videogame in action, then you'll definitely appreciate MovieShop's smooth-playing preview screen, as it's hard to play a game when the screen is jerky-looking! Also, sometimes after re-encoding a clip there will be a noticeably thin, yellow-green line wavering at the base of the clip when viewed with a media player. This only happens when you re-encode a clip that's already on your computer- the clips created during capture are very high quality indeed, and are without this particular annoyance. Overall, this product is highly recommended!
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Summary: A Good Product for Compatible Systems
Review: Why am I giving this little piece of hardware a four star when I actually had to send it back?
For two reasons:
One: GREAT tech support-via email- knowledgeable, prompt and helpful
Two: Great video capture.
Unfortunately my laptop did not support the sound input. This could be a problem as one user has noted, that there was lack of synchronicity.
So, perhaps a new model with video and sound together!
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Summary: I have a Pentium 1.5 and it still works
Review: Yep thats right, my PC does not meet the requirements and it still does work. I have a 1.5 Pentium and 256 RAM. I connected my analog camera and it did record perfectly! I dont have the proper adapters to try my VCR with tis yet, but Im sure it would work. But be sure to have at least a pentium 2.0! I happen to have a good ASUS motherboard.
Be sure to have a 2.0 USB Card too! I like this product! Great price and works goog despite the fact that my PC does not have the proper CPU!
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