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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: $35.87
You Save: $4.12 (10%)
New (32) Used (1) from $34.77
Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 486
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 24 hours
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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 71 more reviews...
 A product that works! December 5, 2007
Mark A. Gleason (Minneapolis, MN)
50 out of 50 found this review helpful
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.
A bargain that is real quality! April 16, 2008
Dr. Randolph Becker (Key West, Florida, Conch Republic)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
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.)
A lot better than what other people say it is May 22, 2008
MASA (Seattle, WA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Luckily, I didn't listen to the other reviewers here and actually checked the reviews on Newegg. Glad I did, this product is awesome! The quality is great (however, you must change the the output settings to something other than default of VCD [read the manual on how to do so]). It doesn't have Vista support (but being a gamer, I am staying on Windows XP).
The VC500 is great for recording gameplay on videogame consoles.
It's best if you do install the Software that comes with it. Movie Maker has a hard time capturing from this device, but the software that comes with this works a lot better.
If you are trying to decide whether to buy the Pinnacle Dazzle or this, I would suggest you buy this because:
1. It's cheaper
2. The quality is the same, if not better than the Dazzle
3. The Live Preview allows you to play console games in full screen
4. The software is high quality
5. Comes with a RCA Audio/Video Cable (which is one less purchase to make)
Small in price, large in usefulness June 12, 2008
Happy customer
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have a 15 yr old analog camcorder, and wanted to transfer the original tapes to my computer. I'm an old (mid 80s) guy. not really skilled with computers. But, I had no trouble installing the Diamond capture device. Connected it to the camcorder, plugged it into the USB port, started playing back the video, pushed the button on the capture device, and without further ado a 2 hour, analog video was in my computer as a *.avi file. All I could ask for. I heartily recommend it.
Couldn't be happier with this little device June 28, 2008
DannyL (Denver, CO United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Extremely easy to setup, easy to use, works great, and is cheap.
I was facing with trepidation converting my old VHS tapes to digital files but this was much easier than I ever imagined. After the easy installation, just pop in a tape, double-click the icon on your desktop and voile the playing tape shows in resizeable window on your desktop.
When you get to a part you want to record just hit the record button (in the settings you can change the quality) and in a few seconds you have file on your computer you can play in any video player or can burn to a DVD. Has never locked-up and even works great when fast-forwarding through a tape. I'm watching a VHS movie on my computer as I type in this my browser. :-)
On the highest record setting (called DVD), you virtually lose no quality from the original VHS tape. That creates a big video file though so I'd recommend compressing it with a decent AVI file editor from there if not burning to DVD if using that setting.
If you have Windows XP/Vista and a good video card/processor, this should work great for almost anyone.
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