Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 2.8 x 8.5 inches ; 11.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VM60I8
• Item model number: VC500
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (242 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 1, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Capture videos with the touch of a button with the One Touch video Capture VC500. The VC500 can capture video and audio from almost any video device, such as VCR, Camcorder, DVD player, or any device supporting video output through an S-Video or composite RCA connection.

Features at a Glance

• Easy to Use Capture by the Touch of One Button
• Capture Video from Almost Any Video Source
• Preserve Your VHS tapes with One Touch
• Ulead Video Studio SE software Included
• Software included to burn Videos to DVD/VCD
• Optimized for Windows Vista with comprehensive DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 support

Specifications

• Interface: USB 2.0
• Video Standards: NTSC/PAL
• Push Button: Pres to start/stop video capturing
• Video capturing formats: MPEG 4/2/1 formats
• Video Inputs: Composite RCA or S-Video
• Still image capturing: JPG or BMP formats
• NTSC Video Capture:720 x 480 at 30FPS
• PAL Video Capture: 720 x 576 at 25FPS
• Burn support files to DVD/VCD
• Video editing with Ulead Video Studio

System Requirements

• Intel or AMD CPU 1.4Ghz or faster
• 256 Mb System RAM
• Available USB 2.0 port
• Video Card Supporting Direct X 10 9.0
• CD-ROM Drive
• 300MB Hard Disk Space
• 600MB to 3GB per 1 Hour of Recording
• OS: Microsoft Windows 10 XP SP2, Windows Vista, Microsoft MCE

Package Includes:

• VC500
• RCA Audio/Video Cable (Yellow, Red and White)
• Driver Installation CD
• Ulead Video editing and burning CD
• Quick Start Guide

Product Description

Capture videos with the touch of a button with the One Touch Video Capture VC500. The VC500 can capture video and audio from almost any video device, such as VCR, camcorder, DVD player, or any device supporting video output through an S-Video or composite RCA connection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bargain that is real quality!, April 16, 2008

By	Dr. Randolph Becker "revrandy_" (Key West, Florida, Conch Republic) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Diamond VC500 capture device is awesome!

Load the driver program, open the program, plug in the device in the USB, connect to A/V outputs on a VCR or a DVD player, start to play your source (VHS or DVD) and you will see it on your computer screen and hear it through your audio card. Then, when you see the scenes you want, press the record button on the device or on the program and you are capturing.

The tool command on the program allows you to adjust picture capture quality and output mode (and quality).

After years of handling videos by direct transfer from VCR to VCR in order to make a composite, now I can do the editing on my computer. The files created can be used and edited directly in Windows Movie Maker (the device comes with another editing program, but I find WMM to be easier to use with a wider range of output files).

As a person using clips from many movies in an educational setting to illustrate my topics, this device has made my life much easier -- and the quality of what I get is much, much better!!!!!

And all of this for a price much less than the usual video-capture internal card.

(and a hint - you can use this device with sources such as phonographs or tape decks to capture and edit the sound through your USB port without having to delve into the audio input ports on the back of your PC.)

111 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A product that works!, December 5, 2007

By	Mark A. Gleason "mgleason" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I couldn't be happier with this. I'm not a professional video person, but someone who just wants to transfer VHS tapes onto disk. A professional might find some objections to this device, but it works and does exactly what I needed it to do. Plug it into the VCR, plug the other end into the USB port, start up the VCR - hit the record button and Bingo! My VHS movie is now a MPEG movie. No problems with the software or hardware. Well worth the price.

109 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not good, August 3, 2008

By	P. Smith (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

I bought this product to capture VHS tapes onto my computer, which I would then edit in another program. I am running Vista. I installed the software with little difficulty and was up and running in under 10 minutes. However, over the course of using the product, I discovered that the video and audio frequently get out of sync...just enough to be annoying. The audio somehow gets ahead of the video, so after a few minutes of capturing, it gets out of sync and boom, it's worthless (unless you don't care about that, but I personally find it annoying when people's mouths aren't moving in sync with the audio). For me, this is enough to get rid of the product, it doesn't do what I need it to do. I gave it two stars instead of 1 because if you're just trying to capture something small, like 30 seconds long, it should be fine. However, for anything longer, forget it.

I also found that the software that comes with it is a bit buggy with Vista. It changes the color scheme when you open it up, which causes your screen to go blank for several seconds. Then, if your computer goes to sleep while you're recording, you can't get it to wake up and have to completely restart which is a huge pain. But then again, if your computer is set to go to sleep after 20 minutes, it won't matter because by then the video and audio will be WAY out of sync (it gets progressively worse as time goes on, starting to be noticeable after 3-4 minutes).