Elgato Video Capture, Capture analog video for your Mac or PC, iPad and iPhone, white GEEZER REVIEW: Typical geezers, 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. Apr 03, 2018  Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as a high quality H.264 file. Elgato Video Capture's easy-to-use software assists you through every step, from connecting an analog video device to capturing video and choosing how you will watch and share it.

It was time: I had some important VHS tapes that are more than twenty years old that were deteriorating because of age. Elgato Video Capture is the device to use. It costs less than $100 and I ordered it from Walmart. It arrived in California from Arkansas within a week, a business day earlier than promised. In my garage I found an old stereo Video Cassette Recorder (old school VCR), made sure the four heads inside were shiny clean, and powered it on. No sparks, so I connected the Elgato Video Capture Device to red, white, and yellow output jacks of the VCR.

A s-Video plug is also included, but that is for DVDs. The other end has a USB plug that fit into the USB jack of my Macbook. No need to hook up the VCR to a TV; the laptop suffices. Software is downloaded from the Elgato website.

Minimum CPU requirements are specified and after installation, a straight-forward window pops up with easy to follow steps. One can clip the beginning and end, but no advance editing tools are included. An hour-long tape uses about one gigabit of storage space. After transferring, I backed everything up on an external harddrive, Over the holidays, I plan to add titles and subtitles in iMovie and stabilize the video in a couple of places, before sharing the clips with friends and family.

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Perhaps they will enjoy seeing my old VHS tape as it enters the digital age. This product met all of my expectations. Simple, quick, worked right out of the box. I went to the website indicated in the instructions to download the driver and software to make sure I had the latest. Within minutes I was capturing video from my VHS player. I am using it to transfer home movies to digital.

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I am using the 'high definition' (default) resolution setting. This gives just over 2Gb per two hour VHS tape. I like the ability to set the software to automatically stop recording after a preselected amount of time. This allows me to start a tape being captured and walk away. I don't need to come back at any particular time since it will stop on its' own.

It looks like it was supposed to come with an S-Video cable, but that was missing. Luckily, I didn't really need it, but it might've been a nice option instead of the included composite cable (in my experience it wouldn't make a difference with the work I was doing). The software was pretty straightforward. But editing wasn't very precise, I really had to fiddle with it to edit the video the way I wanted it. And it would've been nice to have a 'back' button to click onto to make some last-minute changes before it's completed.

Most importantly though, the final product turned out very well. All-in-all a nice unit, but it would be improved with the above changes. Had no problems setting up or using the Elgato. Transferred hi8mm video with no problems. I only mention the following in case you are considering different products.

I Had previously tried a Honestech 8.0 and that was horrible. The Honestech video was very grainy, had audio hum, and would not work at all with the supplied USB cable (they even sent me another which made no difference. I had to use my own without the noise suppressor and the only way I could get usable video was to run the output of the camera through a high quality VCR first. No such troubles with the Elgato.everything worked perfectly.