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Highly recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024

This little device does an admirable job of making digital copies. It could not be easier to make a digital copy. All you have to do is make all the cable connections from your vcr to your computer, open the software (which must be downloaded), click a few buttons in the application and you are recording. It’s that easy. Highly recommend.

There is only one feature I would add to the software. The current software can be set at intervals (10, 20, 30 minutes) to stop recording. Unfortunately when the recording stops the vcr just keeps going.

I wish there was a feature that would record an entire tape with the digital clips set at what ever interval desired. I.e. An entire tape could be automatically recorded at desired clip intervals without having to standby and do every thing manually.

Still very highly highly highly recommended. Well thought out!!

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Sam

Won't work with Windows11

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024

Won't work with Windows11

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Tiger

Highly recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024

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We are transferring many very old VHS tapes and this device has given excellent results. Good quality output and its versatile as we also have home movie on DVDs and 8mm tapes and it will connect with the other devices as well which we haven't tried quite yet. Very happy with the results so far. Very easy to use. We are glad to be able to keep our treasured memories in our own hands. We are still in progress with the project. but its already more than paid for itself. Highly recommend.

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Rafael Cisneros

Works as intended.

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2023

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Works as intended. Not so easy to use out of the box, but after a while, you get used to the software. It's the only one I bought, so I can't compare to any other experience.

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Michael J

Works great right out of the box

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024

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I am using this with old VHS-C tapes and playing it off of an old camcorder onto a desktop computer running Windows 10. With slight adjustment of the tracking speed for playback and the video preference settings in the capture program, I obtained very good transfer results.

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Sam

Won't work with Windows11

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024

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Won't work with Windows11

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JDW

Very easy to use and does what it is intended to do

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024

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I ordered this to digitize a box full of Hi8 video tapes so we could view them and have an archive for the future. This device is super simple to use the quality was surprisingly good.

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Payne

Digitizing Old VHS Tapes Couldn't Be Easier

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023

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I had 43 VHS home movie tapes to convert; it was a PROJECT for sure. The biggest part of the project was reviewing all 43 tapes and building a general index of what was on each of them. The Elgato Video Capture Device was easy to install and the Software was simple to use. The quality of the video/audio is as good as the original VHS recording. The captured video is saved as MP4 file format so it is compatible with most all play back devices. Of course you must have a functioning Video Tape playback device that will connect to the Elgato.

The Elgato Software has limited editing capability. In my project I wanted to do a little editing here and there. Windows Movie Maker will edit MP4 files produced by the Elgato but unfortunately Movie Maker will completely recompile the MP4 and in the process doubles the size of the file, and the recompile process takes forever. So I went in search of a Editing Program that would not double the size of the file and I found "Lossless Cut". There's a learning curve to using Lossless Cut but it works well.

I have given this Elegato a 5 star rating but if the Elgato Software was upgraded to provide enhanced editing capability it would be Perfect! I don't write reviews very often but I was impress with this little device.

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Sheila

Poor video quality

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

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Did not transfer with the quality that the maker advertised. I experimented with both home video (VHS and Hi8) and professional video. Quality was really poor.

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Phineas J Whoopee

Elgato did it. Every couple of years I buy one of these but this one is different.

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2023

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Every couple of years I buy a frame capture device like this in order to see if I can get better quality from my old VHS tapes without spending hundreds of dollars. I don't know what Elgato did differently here but they somehow managed to eliminate the jaggies and squigly lines that one gets from other capture products. I compare my previous video capture to this Elgato and this was night and day.

The accompanying software I would say is idiot proof but one knows how ingenious idiots can be so I won't make that claim here. 😊 Just know that even my luddite wife could figure out how to use this and she hates technology!!!

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S. Carr

Easy Way to Digitize 8mm Camcorder tapes

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023

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My DVD recorder broke and it was impractical to replace or repair it. So I needed a plan B to digitize my family’s 8MM video tapes and get them on DVDs. The ELG cable and software were easy to use. You can get your tapes into mp4 format on a PC for viewing or upload to the cloud. To get the files onto a physical DVD, you need a DVD recorder and more software. I used LG for the recorder and Roxio Easy DVD Maker software.
Accomplished my objective at a reasonable price. A lot less expensive than outsourcing to a service.
You do need better software to do a good edit job if you want to do more than just dump all the footage onto a DVD.

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