ClimaxDigital EzCAP +Support Xbox 360/PS3 colour recording+**FREE AV cable***
Product Description
IMPORTANT: Buy genuine UPGRADED DC60+ directly from ClimaxDigital. with**FREE AV cable***
***IMPORTANT***: ClimaxDigital does NOT authorize anyone else to sell this model with the ArcSoft Showbiz 2 software and Blaze Video Magic 3.0. If you buy from ClimaxDigital. you are guaranteed that 1) genuine UPGRADED DC60+ comes with latest driver CD ver 3.3D 2)comes with **ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD 2+Blaze Video Magic 3.0** CD. (version 3.3D)
3)supports XP, Vista 32 and Vista 64/Window 7 32bit&64bit
4)Support XBOX 360/PS3 colour recording . BE AWARE!!! –Any other configuration is either faked or old version (dc60 with 3.1b or 2.1c or DC60+ 3.2A). Please always check with the seller and and make sure you will get the genuine one. ClimaxDigital is NOT responsible for the old DC60 or faked one sold by other sellers. BEWARE!!! Some sellers here sell OLD DC60 and they claim it is DC60+. . Package Contents: 1) 1 X USB video adapter with audio cable 2)1 X Software and driver CD 3.3D (includes **ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD 2 and Blaze Video Magic 3.0**)
*** Extra cable might be needed. Please check what video OUTPUT ports your video source supports. The video capture has both composite AV (yellow, red, white) female and Svideo female ports. ClimaxDigital UK provides FREE composite AV cable (Yellow, white, red)***
Customer’s review on this product “”Fantastic! I can now save my Sony Handycam D8 family films to disc! I have been waiting for this item to be marketed since changing to Vista. Neither Sony nor windows were any help, but this item has saved me over £175.00p, in not needing to upgrade my Handycam. A marvellous invention.” Date: 2008/11/24 Rated by Buyer: MR D.
- ****Be aware of those faked products. Get OFFICIAL GENUINE EZCAP USB 2.0 video capture (Supports PS3/Xbox 360 colour recording. needs set video record format as NTSC 4.33) directly from CLIMAXDIGITAL.>>>. ClimaxDigital does NOT authorisee anyone else to sell this model with the ArcSoft Showbiz 2 and Blaze Magic video 3.0 software . BE AWARE of those cheap faked or old version (dc60 with 3.1b or 2.1c)*** FREE technical support
- UPGRADED version from DC60+ with latest driver CD *3.3D* (same chipsets with different shape). (old version is DC60 3.1b or 2.1c or dc60+ 3.2A). Capture High-quality video and audio file direct by USB 2.0 interface without sound card; Catpure video source VHS, V8, Hi8 etc. video recorder, camcorder, DVD player or Satellite TV receiver, laptop/PC;Supports Windows **XP/Vista 32/Vista 64/Window 7 32bit&64bit**..Plug and Play;no need extral power;easy to use and carry
- Capture and edit analogue video sources to MPEG 1/2 format on your hard disk;Support all formats: record in DVD, VCD, SVCD; Share finished projects on DVD, tape, the Web, and mobile devices;Support Brightness, Contrast, Hue, and Saturation control.
- Supports high quality video resolution: NTSC: 720 x 480 @ 30fps;PAL: 720 x 576 @ 25fps;Real time MPEG 1/2 format; Supports NTSC, PAL Video format;Video input: One RCA composite, One S-Video; Audio input : Stereo audio (RCA)
- Enclosed Professional video editing software **ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD 2. ShowBiz DVD2 provides best editing function for you. With it, you can make your family album and your own movies at ease. It also comes with video conversion software Blaze Video Magic 3.0. It includes features of iPod Video Converter, PSP Video Converter, MP4 Video Converter, AVI Video Converter and 3GP Video Converter… All popular video formats such as AVI, WMV, Divx, Xvid, Real Video(RM, RMVB), ASF, MP4, MPEG1/2, 3GP, MOV(Quick Time), MKV, OGM, FLV, VOB, VRO, DAT, VCD, SVCD, H.263, H.264 can be converted to desired formats.+**FREE AV cable***
ClimaxDigital EzCAP +Support Xbox 360/PS3 colour recording+**FREE AV cable***
Some of the above reviews highlight that this product “EzCAP” is by nature not the most straightforward of devices. It’s possible that alternative products (such as the more popular “Dazzle” set) have a more straightforward installation and more clear usage instructions.
It helps to know what you’re dealing with before you buy this product. Depending on how you want to record, you may need two sets of three phono leads and three female-2xfemale phono splitters. But this is typically the case with all alternative products too.
There are also specialist support forums for the UK version of this product which further explain and assist with installation and use.
More on the product itself: This model is advertised as “DC60+” and though it is largely similar to the “DC60″ model it has the distinct hardware ability to record at a display frequency of 60hz in colour. This is particularly important if you are trying to record from some DVDs and video games consoles. As of time of writing, no “Dazzle” product, nor the Adaptec Gamebridge, are capable of recording 60hz in colour making this a unique selling point of the EzCAP DC60+.
The product also comes bundled with a licensed copy of Ulead software, but no instructions on how to use it. In addition to using this, you could also use other software solutions that do work with the EzCAP. This includes various software you can find online as well as Windows Movie Maker that is bundled in with Windows XP as standard.
When recording video, even when using on-the-fly compression offered by some recording software programs, you can get very large files created in short spaces of time (recording 10 seconds of footage is typically around 180 megabytes) so a large hard drive is definitely recommended.
Overall I would recommend this product for recording purposes, but as I have said it does require that you need to know what you’re doing.
Rating: 4 / 5
Easycap comes with a ‘Chinese’ translated type of instruction leaflet that should be ignored. However F1 will get you a decent help index in good English. The setup procedure is essential, especially for UK PAL users. YouTube has an extremely accessible guide called ‘Best quality Settings for EasyCAP..’. Follow these and it works. The results are brilliant; unbelievably good value product to save your Video tapes to DVD!
Rating: 4 / 5
Firstly my version did not come with a free AV cable so had to supply all the necessary leads myself as well as the Scart adapter but I think this free offer may not have been advertised at the time I purchased the device?. It then took some days before I finally got it to work properly so hence only three stars. Loading the drivers and software from the supplied disc was fine and video capture from a VCR worked straight away but the sound was terrible. It seemed to be pulsing on and off and no matter what I changed in the audio setup nothing would correct this problem. I tried other video capture/editing software packages other than the Arcsoft Showbiz DVD 2 which was supplied and these were worse. Premiere Elements 8, Nero Vision and Windows live Movie Maker wouldn’t work at all with the ezcap, there was no video or audio, so had to stick with Showbiz DVD 2.
Trawling the net there are dozens and dozens of examples of audio problems with the `USB EMP Audio Driver’, many clips on YouTube show how to correct/improve the audio but they all seem the centre on the driver not being installed correctly. Checking Windows Device Manager (I’m using Windows 7) showed my `USB EMP Audio Driver’ to be correctly installed and working but clearly it wasn’t!!. I did finally get around the problem and this is what I did.
In Device Manager under `Sound, video and game controllers’, right click `USB EMP Audio Driver’ then `Update Driver Software’ DON’T select `Search automatically for updated driver software’ but instead click on `Browse my computer for driver software’ and then ‘let me pick from a list …….’ and tick `show compatible hardware’. This should give you two driver options, Window’s own `USB Audio Device’ and the `USB EMP Audio Device’ driver which was installed from the installation disc. DO NOT select `USB EMP Audio Device’ but instead select the `USB Audio Device’. Once this is loaded sound should now work properly from here on.
One problem I’m still left with is that I tried Premiere Elements 8 again recently and for some unknown reason it now see’s the ezcap device and will now capture sound and video. No idea why this should be working now but all is still not well as the sound and vision are permanently out of sync and I’m not able to resolve this problem. Adobe’s support site warns that capturing in Mpeg2 may not be compatible with Elements 8 and recommends capturing in AVI format. However, despite the ezcap instructions stating it can record AVI and Mpeg 1/2 it does not give me the option of AVI when capturing so again stuck with using Showbiz DVD for capture and editing which is absolutely fine for the job but I would like to have been able to use the more sophisticated Premiere Elements. I mailed Arcsoft tech support about the lack of AVI capture and was told this option had been removed! God knows why they did this!.
In conclusion the device does work and works well with the supplied software and would warrant 5 stars but I shouldn’t have to dick around for days on end getting it to work and be limited to what software I can use it with but all said, for the money, it is good value.
Hope this helps someone.
Paul
Rating: 3 / 5
The EasyCAP DC60+ is in my opinion rubbish. I’m very technical minded and I use a computer every day & deal with loads of IT issues but this one I cannot ressolve. As other people have said, the setup instructions are non existant which obviously isn’t good. The setup CD oddly gives you 3 setup choices but when you ‘think’ you’re setting up the software it DOESN’T load the driver needed to run it! You have to load this seperately! The box doesn’t say this is a DC60+ so it could be another model – there’s no way of telling. The manufactures fail to tell you that you’l probably need an adaptor AND another lead because the audio/video cable sockets are all female, but the sockets on most VCRs are also female – my VCR is scart so I needed a scart-to-cable adaptor AND a female to male lead so you end up paying another £10 on top of the £20 you paid for the product! When I did convert a VHS tape to digital, the sound didn’t come out & the image quality was awful, despite many attempts. Also my PC kept locking up and ctrl+alt+del didn’t reboot so I had to hit reset. Totally naff product, amature software and very unstable. My advise is spend more money on one from PC world – you will pay double but at least you can take it back.
Rating: 1 / 5
Although the product is very good the initial setup of the components can be very tricky, however there are lots of tutorials telling you how to do it on youtube and if you follow them it is impossible to go wrong.
Also, the ‘showbiz’ software it comes with is SUPERB!!!
Rating: 4 / 5