I have hours and hours of analog video (family video) that I would like to digitize and store on my computer. I have a digital video camera and I can copy the video from from analog video camera to my digital, and then capture the video on my computer.

There are two disadvantages to this. A, it means taking two steps to capture the video and playing everything twice. But B, and more importantly, there is something wrong with my DV camera and the video wiggles and fuzzies (technical terms) off to the right on the screen. Cleaning the heads does not help this.

So what I’m looking for is a device that can go directly from analog to my capture program on my computer. Or maybe a device that captures all on it’s own and produces a file I can store anywhere. It should cost less that $100, and it should put out as high quality video as the analog signal will allow. If cheaper can do high quality, that’s fine.

I’ve seen devices from $25 to several hundred. A lot of the reviews on the low cost devices say the quality isn’t very good. They have other complaints, too.

Can you help?

Topics: digital, video, conversion, digital camera, tech support, analog