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(More customer reviews)You will most likely see nothing but bad reviews for this product, no matter what forums you read.
Dazzle is out of business and so Pinnacle bought it all up. Product support is no longer offered to previous owners who purchased when Dazzle was still around, and the technical support website has broken links everywhere and provides no meaningful information. Pinnacle will not support you via the phone or email for old versions of this product.
The product will not function with any video capture program other than the bundled Dazzle MovieStar 5 software. Even with the software update (which is very difficult to find now), the program frequently crashes during rendering or editing of the movie.
If you are able to capture MPG vid from this device, it usually can only be read again by the MovieStar software, and sometimes Windows Media player. Attempting to load these MPG files into other software such as Movie Maker, or Virtual Dub usually crashes the program.
From a physical perspective, the device footprint is small, and attractive (black and silver which we all like for computer things), and you have analog and svid inputs. It plugs into your computer via USB. Do not attempt to use USB 1.0, or you will get little to no performance or quality. You must use USB 2.0 to get any type of product.
Burning to a VCD is choppy and messy, and the program (though advertised this way) can not write to real media with any consistency.
I have seen very few positive reviews about this product on numerous forums, and regret purchasing it myself. Unfortunately, I can not return it to the store. Most purchasers recommend that this product be recalled due to the quality issues, however, since the company no longer exists, that is unlikely.
Choose a different product that will allow more flexibility. Unfortunately, in the world of video capture, cheaper is not better.
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PINNACLE's DAZZLE DVC-150 is the straightest path to creating Hollywood style movies from your home videos.DVD Encoder Chip automatically converts real time video into 1/4 size DVD quality (720 x 480) videoPackage includes A/V cables, USB cable, complete user's guidesRequirements -Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP; 128MB RAM, 500MHz+ Pentium II class processor, CD or DVD burner for disc creation
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