Roxio Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus | VHS, Hi8, V8 Video to DVD or Digital Converter | Amazon Exclusive 2 Bonus DVDs [Windows]

After installing this program, it took six days of deep digging through the Amazon site customer reviews and a couple sites about connection cables to get enough information to have a working program. I can see the reasons for the very negative reviews, over the top frustration with the lack of resources to get it to work. Product information only suggests checking connections again and again or reinstalling. It is not surprising many customers give poor reviews and throw up their hands and return the product. What I found out in six days; I was able to actually create a disk of my VHS tape. I dont agree that it is easy, so far I can only save to my computer, other choices wont work, I am able to copy that save that file to the DVD. Possibly I will learn more about the supposed ways of saving the recording in the next few days? 1). requires male (RCA or S video) connection cables with same connections on both ends to join the Easy device to the VHS player. 2). requires DVD + R discs to record videos. (DVD-R will not record, are not recognized in a computer). 3). ensure that your security settings allow apps to access your camera and microphone. Toggle the switch on both to ON. (To find the security area: select the following: windows icon, settings gearwheel icon, security) OR in This PC, search window, type security, select security). 4). Product comes with an installation disc so going to site for installation is not required. The VHS to DVD user guide can be quite helpful for installing and creating WHEN you can see your tape actually playing in the program.

Make sure you change the default label before you start recording. Works better then the original version I have. Make sure you pay attention to all of the settings previous to starting a recording.

You need an audio/video cable not included. The one with the red, yellow and white plugs on both ends. After a couple of tries and converting a trial video, it was easy to use. Comes with DVDs but computers nowadays don’t have a way to play them. Videos are saved to the video folder on computer. My home VHS videos are now on line. There were no instructions on how to crop parts of the video. So I recorded the complete video. You press record, walk away and check every so often. It does have a feature to stop at the end of the recording. I would recommend this product.

After you figure out the quirks, this product works extremely well. For my first few tries, the audio was distorted. To fix this, I had to do two things. 1) in windows sound properties, I made the volume VERY low (3%). 2) in the vhs software, I made the volume slider also very low (pretty much all the way to the left plus a tiny amount). After that, audio was perfect and surprisingly not as quiet as those settings would have you believe.

This works well converting my parents video tapes by plugging into the camcorder. Only problem is the product gets hot and to prevent damage, its necessary to give it a break after each hour or so of use.

I connected it to a windows laptop and it worked as stated. I do have a ton of experience in video though but the directions seemed to be straight forward.

In writing so called Customer Service at Corel/Roxio explaining that I was using the product but found the USB/Audio/Video adapter had a short in it and that I had to use the unit with it shifted to the far right to get it to work properly. I sent them my Amazon order information and received a you will hear from us within 24 hours which turned into weeks with a follow up and being told case was under review. Today I get this reply: (ACTUAL MESSAGE) Thank you for contacting Corel Customer Support Services. My name is Devi and I have been assigned to your ticket. I apologize for the delay in response. Let me go ahead and assist you with it. In regards to your query, Im sorry it is not possible to send a replacement for an adopter. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any further questions. Regards, Devi Corel Customer Support Services ROXIO is a division of Corel and horrid Customer Support and there is NO SERVICE to their so called Support Service. The product when working properly is quite good for the money and conversions of other media is pretty simple ONCE you figure it out. Actual in depth instructions do not exist and even saving to a folder you create and tell it to use often dont happen and goes into a default folder. My product as stated has a short in the wiring which is not a common report and as stated, by adjusting the adapter to the right, works fine. I probably could have simply sent it back for exchange with Amazon/Dealer but once you start a project you dont want to set it aside waiting and though I had read some really bad reviews on Corel/ROXIO Customer Support, Having used their products years ago I thought them to be exaggerated in the negative ..... they werent. So over all, great little product IF you are semi tech savvy but a challenge if you are not. AND if you get a faulty unit dont waste your time contacting Corel/Roxio and calling the or contacting [email protected] or using their 1-877 number is a total waster. Yet, there is a yellow sticker on the box : Share your experience! Log into Amazon, go to orders, find your product, click on write a product review, enter your review, click submit One would think they would actually care what customers write and work at correcting product issues with verified buyers..... guess not.

I was debating between this and other product that comes at top of list but saw reviews for other product that said would stop in middle of recording plus this was more economical. Ive converted at least 4 tapes, each at least 90 minutes, and no issues recording. It did take a bit of trial and error to realize needed to change the recording to H.264 (MP4) so could upload to iCloud after converting on my windows computer. I was originally moving to my S20 FE 5G to edit and trim the videos and then move back to computer but found trim feature on software and very easy. Havent had to use tech support yet, thanks goodness. So glad I found this product!

Updated - after trying some other products that worked intermittently, I discovered my USB ports were all bad intermittently. I had thrown away the Roxio, and gotten another one, but it stopped working, too. After I bought a new computer, I dug the original unit out of the garbage, tried it again, and it has been working flawlessly for several weeks. So now I have two. The other products were just awful. Their interfaces were difficult to understand, or navigate, the video and audio were out of sync, or the recording image window wouldn’t go full-screen, etc. The Roxio is by FAR the best unit out there. Trust me, I tried them all. Original post (please ignore) - My first one died after about 20 hrs of recording. I thought it was a fluke and that Id get another and use the same software. The second one lasted about 15 hrs.

Its not a perfect system, but if you play with it, you can get the job done. Trick #1- the Video Capture USB device gets hot, and will burn up. When it gets too hot, the picture quality gets bad. It gets real jittery, and theres no fixing it- letting it cool wont make a difference. I recommend keeping one of those little blue ice packs on it (in a zip lock bag to capture the condensation). Dont leave it plugged into your computer when you arent actually transferring video. Trick #2- if the video doesnt show up in the app, try selecting Record DVD. Once you get the video working, go back and select Record, Edit, Save if you want to save it to your harddrive. You may have to do this several times.