Video Capture Converter / VHS To DVD / Capture Analog Video To Digital For Mac And Windows 10 PC

I have been transferring old he movies (8mm and MiniDV) for over ten years. I have always been skeptical of these items and therefore used what I believed to be a more reliable, yet time consuming method (Transfer to DVD using recorder, then to PC, then convert to MP4 using YouTube). I was still skeptical when reading other reviews before purchasing this product. However, I have found it to be easy to use, reliable and quick.I will note that the quality of your tapes will determine the outcome the process. Some reviews suggested that the device caused errors with tape odor and/or sound quality. However, I found this to be a result of the quality of certain tapes and the camera used for original recording. The original 8mm Sony Handicam we used from 1990-2002 had difficulty recording audio from 2000-2002 and had to be replaced. That, along with tape degradation is more likely the cause of your audio/video issues when transferring.As I said, I began transferring tapes over ten years ago and used a lengthy process. I have found that in that time, many tapes have only gotten worse. Don't wait, save your memories now!

For all users: CD has the software, so if you don't have a CD drive, you'll have to download it from DIGITNOW, which has about one 56K modem delivering the download to you, so expect about a 2-hour download for a 180MB file.For Mac users: The software is 32-bit, so anything Catalina or after will not run it. Only older Macs. Runs ok for older systems, but make sure you have all other processes shutdown as the potential for skipped frames is high.For Windows users: The software is different. A serial is needed for the software which is printed on the CD. It also asks for a username that is not supplied nor specified, though a simple dash in the field suffices. For our test machines, we did not get a preview of the video while capturing - only audio, which makes accurate capturing extremely difficult.Overall, the direction and execution of the process are poor. If you are persistent, you can get it to work, but with mixed results. Nothing easy about this for the everyday user.UPDATE: Failed after a few months. Ultimately wasn't worth the money or hassle.

We had tons of VHS tapes, family videos we took in the 80s & 90s. Retired now and downsizing into a tiny home, we needed to digitize these priceless memories. We'd used a VHS to DVD converter for a few tapes back in 2010, and sent copies of those DVDs to our kids as we completed conversions.I've spent some time the past 2 weeks comparing competing products for transferring home videos into digital format on my Windows 7 PC and Mac for long-term preservation and so that I can edit the videos on my PC.when I see "digitnow " video grabber , it look exquisite appearance and complete accessories，I decidt try one.A note about video resolution: The analog video tape formats (VHS, Video8, and normal Hi8) all have native video resolutions less than 640x480. All of the video transfer products on the market record the video from these formats at either 640x480 or 720x480. It doesn't really matter which of these two resolutions the product records at. The point is, all of the video transfer products record at higher resolution than the original video, so you are capturing all of the resolution of the original video when you do the video transfer, which is good.But use it on my Mac , I find "the video capture from thedigitnow " video grabber is significantly higher quality than from the others similar products, even same as Hauppauge and Elgato, but I buy it only spent Elgato's 1/3 money .In short I am very happy with the product and highly recommend it. Of course your experience may vary depending upon your hardware.Hardware: Apple iMac (Late 2013) running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, Sony DCR TRV11 NTSC Handicam (2000), Magnavox VRT442 (1996)

So I bought this to transfer VHS to digital on mu MAC. Will NOT work on the new MACOS but does work on systems thru 10.13, even though the box says 10.5.8 and LATER, so if you are on High Sierra you are good. Also works on Win10. I downloaded the drivers from their website to insure I got the latest ones, install was straight forward, just follow the steps in the .pdf. When launching the app you get a blank screen, go to the 'record' tab and set your audio and video preferences, then hook up and start your playback device, the video will preview on screen, Que up the start point, pause, then select record>start recording, select the pop up start button while taking the device off pause. The one less than good feature is the audio source will default to 'internal mic on initial app launch, so you have to set it to the capture device or you get no sound recorded. Remember that captured video quality is only as good as your source video, and as it is analog it will be 640X480. The audio will mute while recording unless you set it to 'on', but then you get a feedback loop when on preview, this setting also resets to 'off when recording' on app launch. This product does do what it is supposed to and does it well, but with a few odd features, another of which it will only record up to 2.13 GB then stop recording, so no start and forget on a 1-2 hour tale. I like the ability to record in H-264 as this produces smaller files.