The Dazzle Video Capture Device is my most recent toy. I have been struggling with trying to get good video out of a Sony Handycam. The digital quality is horrible, so I went back to my sister’s old JVC analog video recorder. The camera is over six years old, but the video quality of analog is still better than the digital quality of the Sony Handycam. The only problem is that I needed to get the video into digital form somehow. I worried that a video capture device would degrade the picture so much that any quality might be lost.
Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised.
The Dazzle DVC-90 has been an excellent little machine that coverts the tapes of recording to digital. The only complaint I have is that it doesn’t work with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have to capture using Pinnacle’s Quick Start and them save the output as an AVI file. Fortunately, nothing is lost in the process. I don’t know if the lack of compatibility with Premiere Elements is Adobe’s fault or Pinnacle’s. Either way, I’m bugged by not being able to capture and edit with Premiere Elements.
A digital camera that can capture your moments as clearly as analog tape is still quite expensive right now. If you have an old school video camera lying around, it might be more useful than you thought it was. Just a small little device and you can get all your video onto the computer for a lot less than a $999 digital camera.
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