Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac | VHS, Hi8, V8 Video to DVD or Digital Converter [Mac Disc]

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 dont 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 found a bunch of old tapes and wanted to get them into a digital format. I looked up this product, and although I saw a lot of bad reviews for it not working on OSX 10.6, I saw a few others said it worked fine. I have 10.7, which I just upgraded a little while ago from 10.5, and it works fine. I plugged in the software, plugged in the cables and updated anything that needed to be updated and boom its there. Ive already ripped 3 VHS tapes onto my Mac. You just have to let it play as its recording. Which is good if you want to watch the video again right before you start editing it. You can also mute the audio so you can continue facebooking or whatever it is you kids do.

Shouldve read the reviews. If I could give zeroes, I would. This is easily the most useless and time-wasting program ever. I bought the new program because I was assured that it was compatible with Catalina and the whole 64-bit thing. Instructions for wiping my old Easy VHS to DVD program off my hard drive was confusing. Numerous (spelled many, many) attempts to hook up with Tech Support, if you can call it that, finally resulted in being able to load the new program and capture video. Yea! Right? BUT . . . you cannot hear the audio through the computer while recording, only through the camcorder. Saving and playing back a captured video not only produces no audio, but playback is in 2X fast forward. I hooked the camcorder to a TV and other devices and it works fine. The program DOES NOT. Many more attempts at support resulted in the advice to launch the program and then add the playback device when prompted. Did that. Same results. Its not like Im new to Roxio and Easy VHS to DVD. My old program allowed me to capture and save over 150 videos. Many reviews warned of incompatibility with Catalina. Guess what?!? They are right. Dont waste your time.

I liked the product. it did as expected, but here was a problem synchronizing audio & video. I had to record on a medium quality setting rather than high to solve the problem. Dont expect the results from VHF tape to look good on a HD TV, unless you use a movie setting & adjust the TVs video quality down by using a sharpness adjustment.

I can now digitize a ton of VHS tapes I’ve collected over the years, and thereby gain all of the advantages of digital files (near-instantaneous access to any point in a movie or cartoon). Yay!

I had a Sony VHS to DVD player-- would play either medium and you could dub back and forth. I copied hundreds of VHS tapes (both commercial and things I had taped from television and rented DVDs) to DVD. It was a bit complicated to follow the process at first but once you had it, it was easy and the quality was great. After 12 years it ceased to function, and I wanted another one. Couldnt be found other than random models sold independently for a staggering amount of money. When I went to a big box electronics store, the salesperson recommended this Roxio product and showed me home video she had copied and stored on her phone. Seemed like decent quality and so I bought it. Had to return it because even though I said multiple times I am a Mac user I got it home and it was for Windows. So I found the Mac version on Amazon for considerably less (about $40 savings). It was fairly simple to hook up and the instructions to begin taping are fairly simple, also. You will need a VCR, which I happened to have in a box in the closet. So far, so good. You start the VCR, (or a video camera, apparently, can also be used) which is connected with the actual Roxio device to the computer. I hit Play on the VCR and Record on the computer screen where the Roxio window was displayed. Again, so far so good. After one tape was completed I wanted to watch it to check if it had worked (I had been burned on another companies similar device to turn cassette tapes into computer files). Its a bit of a challenge to even find where the file gets stored on the computer. Once found I attempted to drag and drop to iMovies but that didnt work, nor did moving the Roxio icon to the dock. So I had to search to even locate it, and still dont know precisely where on the hard drive it has sent the file. But then , the bad news... The picture quality is faded (even in the small window where it displays on the computer, so no telling what will happen when played large on a TV screen) and, worse, the sound does not sync to the picture. Its like the scene in Singing in the Rain where the picture gets ahead of the soundtrack. I happened to be copying old episodes of TV variety shows, so both the speaking and the singing are off-kilter. I will call tech support for the company-- remains to be seen if that is even responsive. If not this will be returned. I dont know if there are other equivalent products-- this was the only brand I found-- but it is NOT recommended. Looks like I will be keeping my VCR and finding a place to store the old video tapes.

For a Mac user the MyDVD app behaves like it was made for Windoze users. Very buggy and not intuitive. I kept getting a message toward the end of a DVD burn A disc burner was not found Code: -104121669 Through trial and error it seems that the disc I was using didnt have the capacity for the movies I was trying to burn. The MyDVD app indicates how much space is used and how much is available, but forget trying to fill up a disc based on those numbers. The Roxio Video Capture works quite well - no problems there.

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 its 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. Its easy to use too.

Concept is great. I havent had the dropped video frame issue, but I do have the NO sound issue - over and over. I found that if you allow any other sound to be issued on the computer, it seems to shut off audio from the VHS player during capture. I have to restart my Mac to get audio again. Lots of wasted time. I read on another blog that if you unplug the cable going into the Mac USD before you start the Roxio software, this will fix it. I havent tried yet. FIX THE SOFTWARE!!!

purchased it to move vhs to dvd - I use the Apple Mac and the way they made this appear as though its a simple plug and play device, I contacted customer service only to be put on hold for 20 min to then be informed they needed to bump this up to a tech support at which time all I get is an auto generated email stating thanks we appreciate you letting us know DONT BUY