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(More customer reviews)I'll start by saying I've never done any form of video creation/editing before. I've talked with a couple of friends about their systems and determined that based on 1) what I need/want to do, and 2) my system configuration, this was the best option. There weren't many reviews so I felt like I was taking a chance with this product. Fortunately, this seems to have worked out very well. Essentially, the encoder does what it says. My goal has been to take stored videos from my DVR as well as older VHS tapes and put them on DVD. Many people asked why I didn't just get a dedicated DVD burner, that the whole thing would be easier. Well, yes, that's probably true. But I wanted to be able to edit the videos, and you can't do that with just a dedicated burner.
The actual hardware is pretty simple. Nothing too fancy...S- and C-video inputs and R/L audio inputs, as well as DV. USB 2.0 to your computer. Install the software and you're pretty much ready to go. The encoder is doing most of the work so there aren't audio sync problems that were apparently very common with older consumer level encoders.
It's important to note the system requirements, particularly those that are needed to use the included editing software 'Adobe Premier Elements 2.0'. As everyone knows (well, everyone that's interested in video editing), this process is extremely CPU intensive. I knew that I couldn't run anything else while I was bringing in video, so I didn't have any apps running at the same time. But the file creation was still messed up. After messing it up a couple of times I realized I truly needed EVERYTHING that wasn't necessary turned off. I had to go into Task Manager and turn off all of those background programs that aren't needed (iTunesUpdater, etc.) as well as turn off the screen saver. That made all the difference. Now I have a perfect video file ready for editing.
That brings up the next point. There isn't a printed manual...only the quickstart guide. The software install puts the manual for Premier Elements on your drive. I don't care for that...I'd rather have it in print in front of me. So, just like most Adobe products, it's not the most intuitive user-friendly program in the world. You'll need to do a little figuring out on your own if you've never done this stuff before. So I finally got the basics down and created my edited video...ready to burn! Within Premier Elements 2.0 is the option to Burn to DVD. Two failures later, I'm annoyed. I have yet to create an actual DVD. I had to do some searching and some asking around and the general advice that I've been given is to not use Premier Elements 2.0 for the actual burn...use it only for the editing. You should burn the file (a .vob file) to your hard drive and then use another program for the actual burn. I was told the freeware programs DVD Decrypter and ImageBurn are both reliable programs that will do the burn. We'll see.
* Edit: DVD Shrink is the freeware program to use for burning. It worked great! Burned the entire DVD in about 13 minutes with no errors.
I give the product 4 stars because it does what it is supposed to do, that is it easily creates an editable video file from a video player. If the burn to DVD process would've worked it would've gotten 5 stars.
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