I also want to capture this to my Mac for editing, not strictly direct to DVD burning. I don’t want to drop the bucks to find out they drop the frames. I was told to try running it through a time-base corrector first (never did do that) but thought perhaps my G4 Mac at the time just couldnt handle the throughput. I want to know if the lower to average video quality of home movies transfers well through either of these devices. Reviews online aren’t telling me a whole lot other than their ease of use. Has anyone here transferred VHS home movies to DVD/computer using either Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac or Elgato Video Capture? I’m interested to know what real world experience people have had. The captures worked perfectly but I want to edit some of this video and don't want to go through the messy capture and conversion process from MPEG-2 to a format for iMovie or Final Cut Express. I've since transferred most of my VHS to DVD with a DVD set top recorder. AVI, MOV, or Freemake Video Converter to put it straight on a DVD. Screencast de sobre el Roxio VHS to DVD para Mac Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. I'm on an 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac now and it can't capture it any better. Although it isnt free, Roxio software can be used to play MKV files on macOS as well.

I was told to try running it through a time-base corrector first (never did do that) but thought perhaps my G4 Mac at the time just couldn't handle the throughput. Commercial VHS usually captured fine but home movies didn't have a consistent or strong enough signal, resulting in a lot of dropped frames, segments and audio. It turned out to be a big waste of money. Years ago I bought an ADS Tech Pyro A/V Link converter box to transfer my VHS to DVD via Firewire.

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