Video scrolls across viewer, renders badly

[fmsisto]

I'm trying to capture VHS to VideoStudio, but am getting unuseable video and no audio. Video appears but visual is very distorted, scrolls across the screen with a large vertical bar moving along with the image. Works the same whether copying home movies or store bought videos. Using S-video cable, running Windows 7 Pro.

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

[BrianCee]

You are not getting audio because S-video cables do not carry audio you need a separate connection from the player to your sound card - I have found on occasions that a sound signal helps sync the video try that first..

please tell us a bit more about what you are doing - presumably playing your VHS tapes in some sort of player - is it compatible with your tapes - does it play to a TV satisfactorily. what version of VideoStudio are you using - is your PC compatible with the tapes - ie are they both NTSC or both PAL etc - tell us a bit more about your method

[fmsisto]

Thank you for the response!

Point taken on the audio. I guess it might help if I connected that cable! I didn't think I needed to with the S-Vid connector. Easy fix, I have the adapters.

The video is nothing more than home movies I'm looking to move to my hard drive, I only used the store bought video for proof of concept so we don't need to worry about that one unless it helps in troubleshooting.

No idea the format, but it doesn't seem to matter which I choose as I've tried the video with all the formats available on the software and get more or less the same result (the only difference in behavior seems to be the NTSC retains color in the video, PAL makes it go black and white).

I'm using VideoStudio Pro X6 on an eval. The adapter to get from RCA/S-Video to USB is something called EasyCap.

[BrianCee]

Oh Dear - before we go any further please read this topic :- http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40286


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[fmsisto]

OK Brian, thanks for the info. I'll defer to the article and pass on the adapter and not potentially waste yours/anyone else's time, but I have to admit the post leaves me agitated more than anything. IMO way too ambiguous to be taken seriously, it might be a perfectly good device with something just getting lost in the translation.

Also its a little confusing. Is the legitimate one named EZCap? Or did the folks at EasyCap start making a set of knockoffs now called EZCap?

[fmsisto]

To everyone:

I had to post a final follow-up to my previous post, as I feel important to provide readers another data point, specifically related to the posts related to EasyCap.

After Brian's response I stepped back and walked through the problems I was running into. I was getting signal, I was getting audio, just the video was lousy. It occurred to me that maybe my way-overpriced, never used, $40 S-Vid cable I purchased from Radio Shack 4-5 years ago may be the problem. Swapped it out with a cheapie RCA (composite) cable and, voila!, my video issues were solved. I even tried using the freeware that shipped with the EasyCap adapter and it worked, though clearly the Corel product worked better and had more intuitive interfaces. One concern is that the Corel app seems to arbitrarily crash, though my gut is its conflicting with some Microsoft service running at intervals and I just need to narrow it down.

For the $40 or $50 they're charging for it I'll likely purchase the Corel product when the eval runs out, unless the software crashes get worse.

So, back to EasyCap -- it works fine, it works easily. I would suggest disregarding all else you hear to the contrary.

As a small business owner myself who competes directly against monolith vendors, I realize word of mouth is a tremendous power which should not wielded lightly. A misconception or misperception can significantly torpedo small companies, keep this in mind when you post negatively regarding some vendor. I can't speak to the ethics or politics of what EasyCap is doing, if they're is any wrongdoing at all which is unclear to me.