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Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device | 
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| Brand: Diamond Multimedia
Category: CE
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $32.34
You Save: $7.65 (19%)
New (19) from $32.34
Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 112
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 2.8 x 8.5
Warranty: limited warranty, 12 months parts, 12 months labor
MPN: VC500
Model: VC500
UPC: 757448005080
EAN: 0757448005080
ASIN: B000VM60I8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 92 more reviews...
 One Touch Video Capture January 6, 2009
Constance L. Peterson (South West Minnesota)
This works very well and very easily. You plug it into the computer, you plug it into the vcr. When you open the program and then turn the vcr on, it works. Very simple and very well done.
 Great value... works well (once you install the latest drivers) January 6, 2009
Jason A. Blum (Springfield, MO United States)
I was actually a little skeptical about this product because of the low price. I was willing to spend more for a good product and wasn't necessarily concerned about the cost... so it took a bit of a leap of faith to go with such an inexpensive item.
When I first installed it, I found that the captures were proportioned very badly... as if I had zoomed way in, chopping off large parts of the image. If I captured video of a man standing, for example, I only saw him from the waist up, losing half of the original image.
After installing updated Vista drivers from the company's website however, this problem was completely resolved, and I haven't had any troubles whatsoever.
I've been copying all of my old VHS tapes to DVD in order to preserve them. I use this product to capture the videos, and I haven't been disappointed at all.
Does what I needed it to do January 6, 2009
Kurt Enkemann (Detroit, MI)
This product was a really cheap and really good way to convert tapes to DVD. I had some issues figuring out the exact file type and space requirement needed on my laptop, but i got it all figured out. Just FYI, I used MPEG since it's smaller and was easier to burn onto DVD.
Good Value, Good Performer For Vista January 2, 2009
Philip Wiesing (Michigan)
I've been looking for a "cheap" way to get some 17 year-old VHS home videos onto DVD's when I saw this on sale. Given the price,and the complete lack of any detailed specifications for the device, I expected the worst, but got something much better.
Installation of the drivers was quick and painless on my Vista machine (AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.0Ghz, 3GB Ram, Vista 32 Home Premium SP1, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE) and the 'One-Touch' software worked perfectly. I hooked up my 18-year-old VHS camcorder to the RCA jacks and was immediately rewarded with a live video picture.
The "One-Touch Video Capture" software is not compatible with the Vista "Aero" desktop, so Vista turns that off while the software is running. When you exit the program, everything snaps back to normal. Hardly a problem, but it did give me a scare when I first turned it on, the screen flickered and the compatibility warning message popped up.
The VC500 offers 8 recording formats, 6 video and 2 audio. They are cryptically identified as DVD, SVCD, VCD, MPG4, AVI, WMV, WMA, and MP3, the last two being the audio formats. I have sucessfully captured video from the VCR using the DVD and VCD formats. The DVD output is MPEG-2 720x480 at a respectable (but not exceptional) 6500kb/s video bit rate and the VCD output is MPEG-1 352x240 at 1150kb/s. I haven't tried the other available formats, since these two are perfectly acceptable for my current purposes.
I didn't bother loading the Ulead VideoStudio 10SE that came in the box for 2 reasons. First, there's a suspicious lack of information on what exactly is different between the stand-alone software that they charge $99 for and the crippled "SE" version that they package with other manufacturer's products. Second, there was every indication that the version 10 was written with XP in mind, so getting any kind of support for Vista was doubtful. There is a "Vista Update" for VisualStudio 10 on the Ulead/Corel website, but whether this would be compatible with the SE version wasn't clear. Also, the box the VC500 came in declares Vista compatibility, but the Readme file on the Ulead disk is copyrighted March 2006 and has no mention of Vista.
I've been able to produce my DVD's using the Windows Movie Maker and DVD Maker in Vista, so I have no need for the Ulead software. That aside, I would recommend the Diamond One-Touch for quick and easy video capture and I'm very pleased with the ease of use and the quality of the resulting files.
Mainly works with Vista January 1, 2009
English Bob (Chicago, USA)
The Diamond One-Touch video capture software works with no problems with Vista. My computer is a 2.8GHz Pentium D with 1GByte of RAM. I captured 10 minutes of an old Hi-8 camcorder tape using the avi setting. It took 3GB of disk space. No dropping of frames or loss of audio sync.
The Coral VideoStudio 10 SE software does not work with Vista and there is no available patch to make it work. In fact, don't even try to load it on a Vista system as it will make Vista crash every time it tries to display a thumbnail image. I had to use system restore to get my computer to work again.
Luckily the 'Windows Movie Maker' software included with Vista does everything you need to edit the captured software, add effects, music or commentary and then burn to either PAL or NTSC DVD.
A great product for the price.
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