ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 (Second Generation) - Record Video from VCR's, VHS Tapes, AV, RCA, Hi8, Camcorder, DVD, Gaming Systems (Bundle Edition)

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Before buying this ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 I had used an older video capture device (made by Honestech), as well as a "generic" converter I bought on Amazon about a month ago for around $20. Both of the aforementioned items worked "just ok". The Honestech product was just too old and clunky; the newer capture device was OK, but took a lot of work to get it to work in the way of using a third-party capture program. I spent a number of weeks capturing and editing from my mini DV, Hi8, and standard 8 camcorders using a number of very highly rated free programs, including OBS Studio, MiniTool MovieMaker, etc. I was able to get them to work, and they seem to do a good job with the capture card I was using, but there seemed to be something missing in the way of detail in the picture quality. So, I tried one of the video capture services on Amazon that charges you $12 to convert a tape to MP4 format. I paid the $12, paid $8.40 to ship the mini DV via USPS, and included a check for $6 to get the company to ship back my tape to me. So all-in-all, it cost me $26 to "test" the quality of what a professional company can do vs what I could do using the previously mentioned capture programs. The programs allowed you to set FPS, sound quality in bits, bit capture rate of the video, etc., etc., etc. Countless possible combinations to try to find the "best" or even optimal capture quality for my tapes. I literally WASTED countless hours capturing and converting, using various FPS, quality/noise reduction algorithms, etc, etc., hence my desire to "test" a professional capture service to see how they would do. I eventually got a link to download my professionally captured video, and guess what: it was "marginally" better than what I had been doing on my own, testing many trial-and-error capture and conversion possibilities. So I decided to try the ClearClick device since it had a "Free Returns" policy. I figured, what do I have to lose. Well, long-story-short, as the saying goes, the ClearClick video capture did just as good, if not better than the professional service did for the $12 per tape. And, it is SUPER EASY TO USE!!!! It is saving me a lot of time because all I do is put the USB in, press play on the camcorder, and then after a second press Record on the ClearClick, and it captures perfectly in ready-to-go MP4 format. It also captures in 720x480, which is the mini DV standard, whereas the Amazon video capture service captures in 640x480, which is OK for Hi8 or below, but not for mini DV, which is the higher 720x480. But you have to use an S-Video cable (which I also got on Amazon specifically for this purpose; get the $20 Monster cable, not a generic $6 one since you're already spending money to capture and archive valuable memories). So ClearClick is as good as, or better than a professional video capture service. It's cheaper in the long run if you plan on doing at least a dozen or so tapes. And it's super easy to use. The only thing I would like, as others have mentioned, is the ability to set a SPECIFIC automatic record shutoff time for the recording to stop. I have 1 hour tapes that will sometimes run two to three minutes over, and two hour tapes that'll do the same thing. I do not want to set the time for 60 minutes or 120 minutes and have the last few minutes not captured. Nor do I want to use the "schedule recording function", as their technical support suggested to me when I inquired about a possible firmware update they could use to allow setting an exact record Stop function. I'd like to be able to set EXACTLY 64 minutes stop recording time, for instance. If they had this feature, I'd give it 6 stars if AMZN allowed. Nonetheless, the product rates a solid 5 stars and my highest recommendation. As far as the "bundle" software, which is VideoPad Video Editor: it is very good and easy to use, on a par with other products, I suppose. It doesn't capture, just edits and saves to MP4 in the same size or smaller file, whereas for some reason, the free products, like OBS, etc., end up saving an edited file in a larger size, even if all you did was delete/shorten the video...makes no sense whatsoever, since you're shortening a video and saving it in the same MP4 format at the same exact resolution and sampling rate. The 32 GB USB that comes with it is a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0. Buy the ClearClick; you'll save a lot of time and will easily capture your old tapes.

The Software was easy enough to install and is high quality. The transfer from VHS tapes and camcorder tapes to digital has been a very easy process. The quality is very clear. Now my family are digging out their old tapes for me to transfer them also.

At last am easy way to transfer old videos across to my MacBook. Brilliantly simple