The advantage to capturing as lossless AVI is you then have ALL THE VIDEO information in the file rather than compressed and missing much of the color and movement and each "fix" you apply makes the final result grainier and yuckier and blander losing color-space each time it's rendered.Ī good VCR will also have a better playback mechanism, and filters. You CAN get a decent result using low-grade consumer VCR, but if ANYTHING is wrong with the tape you will find a better VCR, and a Time Base Corrector, can make a huuuge difference. What are you unhappy with as far as results? Not sure what you mean by piggyback, you only need 1 converter stick. Also The Hauppage USB Live2, and I use a Hauppage 850. The VC-500 is recommended by the experts for USB capture. My "advanced beginner" setup is about $8-900 US. I might add a quality VCR is also extremely important, as well as a TBC unit if you really want to squeeze the last pixel of quality. Looking closer at the ffdshow interface you will also find access to AVIsyth scripting which is a whole new world of video restoration best studied at DIGITALFAQ site. Most of these are mathematically lossless and if you plan to FIX up/restore the video then a lossless codec is a must, although they can be huuge.
The AVI is the gold standard, I can capture in FastCodec, MagicYUV, Lagareth, UTvideo, Huffyuv, MJPEG, Toponoky, etc.
#Diamond vc500 windows 7 install
If you have an older version of PD (I use PD12), you can install it as a 32bit app (by removing the 64bit installer exe), then install ffdshow along with K-lite mega codec pack and you will then be able to capture analog sources as uncompressed AVI, as well as DV, Divx, and MPEG1 and 2. I used a slightly different process to fix.I am looking at the VC-500, it is a recommended USB device. Turns out it was indeed a driver conflict. None of my Windows 10 capture software was seeing my VCR. I'm using a different grabber (Diamond VC500), but had the same problem.
#Diamond vc500 windows 7 drivers
Once those drivers are installed, reboot and only then plug in the device. Once your computer is rebooted, install the special drivers for it before plugging it in. The fix is to delete the current drivers with the device plugged in and then reboot with the device unplugged. I know of a different device that won't work if you let Windows install drivers for it. Quote Did the device come with drivers for it? Did you install those drivers before you plugged in the device? Turns out that, while the capture software that I was using (EZ Grabber and ShowBiz) on Windows 7 worked fine there, they had the same problem as PD in Windows 10! So, nobody was finding the grabber.įWIW, my grabber now shows up as "TV signal" as well. Seems obvious, but since my Windows 10 installation is the same as my Windows 7 installation except for PD16, and since all was fine in Windows 7, I at first assumed PD was the problem. My video grabber shows up as "TV signal" in PDR by the way but I'm assuming you have tried all the options that are available. I believe there is an accompanying CD with the grabber.
#Diamond vc500 windows 7 movie
Depending on what verion of Windows you have, perhaps Windows Movie Maker. Assuming you have connected the grabber to your laptop, have you tried any other software to see if the signal is getting through. Quote I can't find much on that particular grabber and what I have found is in Norwegian.