

On our system, Windows XP recognized the software immediately after we inserted the disc, and the automated installation process took just a few minutes. Input and output jacks are organized on a pair of nearly symmetrical control panels. MovieBox DV's snazzy hardware, courtesy of designer F. You can also transfer video from a Hi8 camcorder, a VHS tape, or another source directly to a digital camcorder or another device via MovieBox-no PC needed. It has connections galore-FireWire, composite, and S-Video inputs and outputs-and can take an incoming signal from one device (such as a DV camera), convert it to analog NTSC or digital video (DV), and put it through to another device (such as a computer). The hardware component of Pinnacle's MovieBox DV comes in a handsome, brushed-aluminum chassis designed by F. Bundled with Pinnacle's excellent Studio 8.0 video-editing and -authoring application, MovieBox DV is a powerful choice for consumers who need a conduit from one video device to another or who want to convert old VHS movies to digital format, edit them, and save them on a DVD or a digital tape. This hardware/software combo captures all but the lowest-quality recordings with nary a lost frame and lets you route analog and digital video between any combination of computers and external video components, such as your camcorder and VCR. Pinnacle Studio's versatile MovieBox DV seeks to mitigate the damage. Unless you're working with an impeccable source, you'll end up with lost frames, out-of-sync audio, and other unseemly flaws. Maybe there is another freeware software that allows me to capture through the USB port.Anyone who's tried to transfer a movie from VHS to DVD knows that video capture can be a game of trade-offs. Now Im not sure if its just the software or if its my CPU speed? Well the problem is, I record like 1 minute, I dont get a preview, although its checked in the options, afterwards the created MPEG file is like 3mb and got now Picture, nor Sound, sometimes I get some chopped parts of sound, but thats it. Now my problem, Studio 9 only lets me choose MPEG output, which means my CPU has to encode the stream while Studio9 records it, now I belive my problem is related to my CPU speed which is 1470mhz and that it is just to slow to encode while recording, even if the taskmanager shows that Ive have enough Resources left, maybe Im not really sure. I use the SVideo and Sound input to go from my VHS Player to the Box and I use the USB connection to get the stream to my PC. I use the software that was included, which is Pinnacle Studio 9. I borrowed a Pinnacle Studio MovieBox USB to capture a VHS to my PC.
