My sister has hit me up to convert a lot of her old camcorder, VHS, and other family films to DVD. I'm guessing I need some kind of USB adapter video input gadget. I see there are a pile of them out ...

The first obvious concern is whether the unit connects to your camera/output device and notebook. Looking at the source side, of course, you need inputs to match your camera, which typically means ...

Imagine the scene. Your marketing department comes to you, the design engineer, with an idea: to add video-capture capability to an existing product. How difficult can it be? After all, even a ...

Converting analog media like VHS or 8mm camcorder tapes into digital files can be a surprisingly tricky thing. After all, when these analog devices were designed, few people imagined that someone ...

Video creators may be interested in a new multi-input USB video capture device unveiled by Magewell this week in the form of the USB Fusion. Designed to provide an easy way to control multiple inputs ...

Unfortunately, connecting a Sony Hi8 camcorder to most PCs is not a simple plug and play process. These camcorders record analog video to small cassettes and do not output a digital signal that your ...

Modern oscilloscopes are often loaded with features, but every now and then you run into a feature that seems easy to implement yet isn’t available. [kgsws] wanted to use his Rigol DS1074 to show live ...

After some previous experiments, Tom Fenton uses a Newest HDMI Video Capture Card and different software to display the output to see if he can get sharper images. In a previous article, I discussed ...

AJA Video Systems Inc. has introduced Io, an uncompressed audio/video FireWire capture device for Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4, which is due to ship in June. A high-end, 8- or 10-bit broadcast video device ...

For a slightly higher price, Tom Fenton finds a sharper card that he will be using to create content from now on. After writing two articles on capturing HDMI video output (one on the Dododuck 1080P ...

HandBrake is a free batch video converter software for Windows. After launching the HandBrake, you will see two options, Folder (batch scan) and File. If you have stored videos for conversion in ...

Data delivery protocol handling involves reading data from a source (from a capture device or a file, for instance) into a media-processing system. Data content handling involves processing the media ...