I second the Canopus. I bought mine in 2004 and use it quite a bit. I am able to do a pass through on my Sony camera but the Canopus does a nicer job. Never a sync problem doing full VHS tape captures (regardless of recorded speed).

I agree their are better options. However, this device was given to me, I have it and I'm just guessing the capture quality would be better through its svideo input than my TVwonder's composite...that is if I could get it to work.

Would anyone happen to have the original drivers so I can try it?

Jim
I bought the analogue Pinnacle Studio 10 capture card about 10 years ago and I know with that you had to use the Pinnacle drivers and also could only capture with the Pinnacle software.

To import video into Vegas you need to render with the Pinnacle software first.

It may be different with their digital stuff.

You don't need drivers
Just connect it to the firewire port on your PC. Vegas should see it as is.
In Vidcap disable deck control.
On the Dazzle there's a button that switches the direction of the device i.e. between it doing A>D or D>A. From memory the RCA connectors on the front are the A/V inputs, the ones on the back the outputs.

It's not the quality that's the problem with the Dazzle, it's probably about as good as any other device that doesn't have a TBC. The problem was it'd loose the plot when there was a glitch in the vision, the audio ended up sounding like a darlek etc, etc. I wasted days with the thing. It'd capture fine for a while and then blamo.
Everyone that tried the thing wanted to smash it. That's why they're no longer made. It might have been OK coming from a rock solid vision source. Problem was of course the people who bought the cheap converters didn't have rock solid vision coming off their tapes. The Dazzle wasn't the only badly designed unit from back then but it sure was the worst of them

Bob.

I started out with a Dazzle device and thought quite highly of it for quite a while. Then one day, I saw a project I had done blown up to a large size on a projection system. I saw all sorts of vertical lines and other quality problems I hadn't noticed before. Then I went back to my computer and looked more closely at the footage. On bright sunny day footage the problems weren't noticable but on footage that was dark it was just horrible. After getting advice from people on this forum, I got a Canopus ADVC110. I compared the devices side by side and after that never used the Dazzle again. The Canopus had none of the vertical smear lines and uneven brightness and color of the Dazzle.

"Dazzle" - I'm wondering what Ad-Agency thought of that one? - I too had one (coming-out here!), and was ever resetting it. I thought that THAT was the way to do it?

Grazie

OK, i'll preface this my explaining i was a bit desperate after having to suddenly replace a car, a wall, and a ceiling in the same weekend and that left me rather impoverished. Thing was, i also had a very strong desire to capture some TV i didn't want to miss on my secondary computer and didn't have the funds to get another Canopus-type unit. Since i only wanted to time shift and didn't care much about quality, i stopped in at OfficeMax to see what i could find. I came across one of those USB toys for converting VHS to DVDs made by HonesTech, whom i've never heard of before. But, for $49.95 i figured what the heck and picked it up.

I'm less than thrilled with the capturing options. The best codec i've been able to get it to use is DivX at 4800kbps which is semi-watchable. Uncompressed is a joke, looks like 8 bit color at 10fps. But, for the price it works. In fact, it makes the Dazzle look about as effective for capturing video as a tube of toothpaste would be.

Amazing that the Dazzle at over twice the price converting to DV through firewire would be so incredibly awful when this box can do as well as it does.