Best way to import analog video (VHS) to Mac. Ask Question. And Elgato's Video Capture (some similar products). And have the most options for encoding/transcoding the video. – Andrew Mar 12 '12 at 15:06. No, there is certainly no such thing as a 'cable' that can do this. By definition a 'cable' is nothing more than a piece of metal. Digitize video from a VCR, camcorder and other analog video sources for playback on your Mac, PC and iPad. Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as a high quality H.264 file.
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Transfer video to your Mac or PC from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analogue video device as a high quality H.264 file. Elgato Video Capture's easy-to-use software assists you through every step, from connecting an analogue video device to capturing video and choosing how you will watch and share it. There is no easier way to digitise home video to playback on your computer, to sync with an iPad or iPhone, to edit in iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker, or to upload to YouTube. Elgato Video Capture comes with Elgato Video Capture software for Mac and Windows. Elgato Video Capture is very easy to use. The software assistant guides you through every step, from connecting an analogue video device to capturing video and choosing how you will watch and share it. The software offers a simple tool to trim the beginning and end of the captured video.
With just one click, you can add your video to iTunes or to your Windows Media Player library; you can play back the video on your computer or sync it with your iPad or iPhone; you can upload your video directly to YouTube; and you can edit it right away in iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker. Verified Buyer Top 50 Contributor Reviewer: GiantSalamander Location: New York City Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months Rating: 4/5 Good quality captures (mostly), easy software January 24, 2017 Using this to capture hours and hours of 1/2 hour interview shows from old DVCam videotapes. The quality is fine for the interviews, the only time I can see an issue is with some footage of water that is in the opening of each tape. That doesn't compress very well but I don't care as it's only a few seconds and that's not what is important to archive. We could capture thru FireWire with an editing program but the Elgato method is easy and one step to the result we want which is h264 files not DV or ProRes. I would recommend this item to a friend!
Customer Videos. Verified Buyer Top 50 Contributor Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Hansville WA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months Rating: 5/5 GREAT gadget; seems to copy ANYthing February 4, 2016 Finally finished copying/moving a significant part of a terabyte of videos, from elderly VHS and BetaMax tapes, into MP4 files. This included both prerecorded, commercially-sold VHS and BetaMax tapes - some of them surely 'copy-protected' (THEY tho't!) as well as home recordings - some of which were most of maybe 8-9 hours long (slowest speed on 180-minute tapes - i.e.
540-minute-=max recordings!). Also copied various programs - both live and internally recorded on the service-provider's DVR - from various cable shows. ALL of it was EASY; NO problems at all. Well, except for the VERY old VHS and BetaMax players.
Which left MUCH to be desired. (But that was NOT the Elgato's problem; it did it's best!:-) I would recommend this item to a friend! Verified Buyer Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Long Beach, CA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months Rating: 5/5 Excellent Device January 28, 2016 The Elgato Video Capture device connected to my MacBook Pro (MacOS 10.9.5) and captured my Verizon DVR content. I was able to transfer the files into iMovie HD and process the content, and write the content to DVD using iDVD 7. This simple to use device was the perfect solution to download my DVR content.
I would recommend this item to a friend! Verified Buyer Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Carlsbad, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months Rating: 4/5 Great, But not for El Capitan November 2, 2015 Purchased Elgato Video Capture about a month ago, and originally started using it with the Mavericks OS. Product worked very well, easy and intuitive to use. Then I upgraded my OS to El Capitan, and everything went haywire.
Audio was either over-recorded to distortion levels, or missing entirely. The picture would often freeze during recording etc. In communicating with Elgato technical support, and after they remotely analyzed my Video Capture device plugged into my Macbook Pro, they told me that El Capitan changes the USB configuration and interferes with their device. They suggested going back to Yosemite OS or Mavericks. I switched back to Mavericks, and now the Video Capture device works perfectly again.
Unfortunately, Elgato does not warn you via their website that this product won't work with El Capitan, and I think they really should. I would highly recommend the Elgato Video Capture, but not for El Capitan.
I would recommend this item to a friend! Reviewer: BenM Location: Fox River Grove, IL Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Rating: 5/5 Simplicity at its finest! February 22, 2013 I purchased this to convert my old VHS tapes into a digital format so I can finally throw away my antiquated VHS Player. I had the software installed and the hardware setup within minutes. My first VHS was importing within 5minutes of opening the box and that is counting the 1.5 minutes it took to rewind the VHS. Apparently the last time I watched the VHS, I forgot the old 'Be Kind Rewind' saying.
I would recommend this item to a friend!