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BookmarkRoxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac includes everything you need to easily transfer video from VHS Hi8 V8 or analog camcorders to DVD. Perfect for digitizing and protecting home videos on outdated media. Easy VHS to DVD for Mac supports most analog camcorders VCRs and even DVD players. Capture video at full DVD-quality resolution. Add Hollywood style menus and chapters for impressive results. Edit your captured movies in iMovie to add titles transitions and other edits. Great for transferring videos to iPod or PSP too! Post finished videos to YouTube or your favorite social networking sites.Content : Installation CD including : Easy VHS to DVD Capture software Roxio Toast 9 Basic disc burning software Roxio Video Capture USB hardware USB extension cable Video Inputs : Composite video (RCA) and S-Video (mini-DIN) Audio Inputs : Stereo audio (RCA) System Requirements : Macintosh computer with a Dual Processor PowerPC G5 or Intel processor DVD recordable drive for DVD-Video creation Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 512MB RAM 15GB free hard disk space recommended Available USB 2.0 port iMovie HD ’08 or ’09 Format : MAC 10.4 OR LATER Genre : PRODUCTIVITY Age : 815227009220 UPC : 815227009220 Manufacturer No : 243100
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I purchased this product to convert my home videos from VHS to DVD to preserve family memories. The Mac version works really great. Setup was simple. Install the software and plug a VCR into the adapter. Start the software, continue through the sound and video connection screens, hit “play” on your VCR, and click on “record” when you’re ready to start the conversion. Most of my home video was recorded in EPP so I could fit up to 6 hours on a tape. The longest I have converted so far is 2 1/2 hours into a single file which used just over 75 Gb. I then use iMovie to edit and iDvd to produce the DVD. Time consuming but simple.
I have some really old VHS tapes that I wanted to include with photos in a DVD re a trip taken in 1993. I looked for an inexpensive way of transferring the tapes to my MacBook Pro computer. This product includes software and connecting cables. You don’t need a television. Just connect your VCR via USB cable to the computer, start the VCR, and you can watch the progress (like you do on TV but smaller) on your computer as the data is being transferred. The data is compatible with iMovie and can be easily converted to just about any form with the free MPEG Streamclip application. For some reason the process of converting the data directly to iMovie did not work and I had to use the aforementioned application to make the necessary conversion. For that reason I gave the product 4 stars rather than 5. All in all, this is a great buy. It does the job without needing to buy an expensive VHS to DVD recorder.
I bought this software, even paid extra for shipping so I could work on my material all weekend. Instead I have spent the ENTIRE weekend trying to make the software do what it is SUPPOSED to do. Video does NOT show up in I Movie; Roxio’s customer support is almost non-existent. They make it extremely difficult to even get through to them. You CAN get help from their “premium support line” which they will charge you almost $2.00 per minute for!! Don’t buy this product unless you have money to just throw away!!
Roxio’s Easy VHS to DVD for Mac consists of three items… the USB dongle that does the analog-to-digital, the Easy VHS software that captures it and saves it to an MPEG video file, and Roxio Toast 9 Basic for burning DVDs if you don’t wish to use iMovie.
The dongle is finicky and nearly Snow Leopard compatible. With some tweaking and luck I got it to work. Video quality is acceptable; not quite as good as on the T.V., but not too bad. Of course it is real-time.
The Easy VHS software is pretty bad. It saves the file, and then takes quite a while to finish writing it to disk. And then it gives you an option of whether you want to open the file in QuickTime, send it to iMovie or exit. This is really important: IF YOU DON’T SEND IT TO iMOVIE RIGHT THEN, YOU CANNOT DO SO LATER.
On the other hand, if you do “Send to iMovie”, it takes a long time to encode the movie for iMovie.
Even worse, Roxio’s support people are not aware of this, as they don’t actually know their product. (But again, the manual is flat out wrong about what the software can do too, as it covers the non-crippled version Roxio charges an extra $70 for rather than the crippled version the product comes with.)
And, to add injury to insult, this also means that Roxio must re-encode for iMovie, which by definition reduces video quality. Very annoying.
Roxio Toast Titanium is a decent piece of software for burning and converting videos to and from different formats. Unfortunately, that is NOT what comes with the package; you get Roxio Toast 9 Basic. Which CANNOT DO CONVERSIONS, even though they are documented in the manual. It cannot convert from Easy VHS format (MPEG) to iMovie format (MOV.) It does, however, have a Convert button – which simply pops up a button offering to ream you for $70 to get software that should have come in the box.
And Toast 9 Basic also has many other features disabled, labelled with “Upg” for “Upgrade for $70 to get this functionality you thought you were buying.”
Note also that I said “Toast 9 Basic”. That’s “9″, as in NINE. Toast 10 is the current version, and has been for over a year. (I’m writing this in Feb 2010, Amazon started carrying Toast 10 in Jan 2009.) So not only are you getting incomplete software, but it’s OBSOLETE incomplete software!
So the bottom line is that you can capture VHS video and get it into iMovie for DVD creation, but it’s a very painful slow and exacting process. Roxio’s description and their support department are both clueless and inaccurate on it. Beware.
This program will allow you to plug it into your video camera, VCR, etc (basically anything with an audio and video output cable) and directly into your USB port on your computer or laptop. It then streams the video and sound feed over, while recording it through it’s own included software. It comes with basic menus to add. The downside is that the description is deceiving as it requires additional software to edit it with IMovie on your Mac. But if you just want it to stream over your home movies, so that you can burn them to a DVD, then this will get the job done for you. It’s easy to use too.