Product Description

DAZZLE VIDEO CREATOR PLATINUM REFRESH VERSION IN

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57 in Software
• Brand: Pinnacle Systems
• Released on: 2008-06-27
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Dimensions: .73 pounds

Amazon.co.uk
With Dazzle Video Creator Platinum, anyone can produce great looking movies—no prior video editing experience required. Simply transfer videos to the PC. Create a DVD backup of your videotape using Pinnacle Instant DVD Recorder or use Pinnacle Studio software to quickly edit movies. Pick from an extensive library of music backgrounds, transitions and effects for amazing results. Burn movies on DVD. Share them on the web via YahooVideos. Output them to your Apple iPod or Sony PSP.

Manufacturer's Description
Dazzle Video Creator Platinum is a plug-and play USB 1.1 or 2.0 device that allows you to record your videos from a camcorder, a VCR, or any video equipment with analog outputs. Dazzle Video Creator Platinum uses a hardware encoding chip for real-time video encoding into high-quality MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX formats without taxing your computer's CPU resources.It comes with both instant DVD recorder software that allows you to transfer videos straight from tapes to DVDs, complete with menus, and pinnacle studio quickstart software to easily create fully polished movies with titles, transitions, music and more, before burning to CDs and DVDs. You can effortlessly export your masterpieces for sharing on DVDs, Apple iPod, Sony PSP and other similar portable devices.

Customer Reviews

Dazzle platinum 2008 does record in 60hz
The new dazzle platinum does record in 60 hz you have to download a program called AMcap and change settings every time you want to record a video however. Would be 5 star rating if it wasn't for the fact you have to tweak it a little bit to get it to record in full colour 60 hz.

Very good product - does what you want it to do
I am no computer expert, and will give a review as a person with intermediate PC skills.

I personally had a bad experience with Dazzle, when I used one of their devices about 5 years ago, and noticed the sound and picture was out of sync. I can confirm this Dazzle is very good and allows perfect sound and video synchronisation.

1. I used a Dell Inspiron laptop and Samsung DVD -6800 VHS/DVD Combi player. My sole intention was to back up old VHS tapes, even those which were worn out, or had no protective covering for the last 10 years.

2. If you want to use this product to back up your old VHS, this will work! Simply try to use a connection of 'red, white and yellow' directly into the dazzle. The programme included, Studio version 11, does the trick, and will instantly recognise the capture device.

3. While you are playing/recording, you may notice a line at the bottom of the screen. This is like a mini reflection, but this is only visible on your computer while using the software. While this is a little annoying, once you make your MPEG 2 to DVD, and play it on your DVD player, there is no line at the bottom, so the transition is perfect from your VHS player.

4. BE MINDFUL! that your VHS footage, in comparison to your modern day AVI/DVD footage, is going to look worse because VHS is poor in general, and you are likely to have a 50 inch TV in your lounge these days, which will highlight even more how bad VHS used to be as a format.

5. You have the option to connect via S-Video. I tried this initially, but did not seem to work. This may be because I need to get a different type of connection, but trying it via a SCART to S-video adapter did not work.

Based on this, and having only purchased a few days ago, I will give it 4 out of 5 stars. The only reason why I have downgraded is because once you make it into a DVD, the included software (Instant DVD Recorder), I found to be very unfriendly, and I could not capture the footage using other software programs such as Nero or Sony Vegas. However, once you make into an MPEG 2 file, you can use any other programme you wish to. My preference is for Sony Vegas, and I made the DVD with ease and was pleased with the results.

Hope this helps!

Does the job but requires careful setting up
I'd been thinking of getting one of these for an age but everyone's polarised reviews put me off completely. Then a few weeks ago I took the plunge as I needed it for a business venture as well as recording myself playing games.

All the dazzles appear to be the same device with different software so it doesn't matter too much which one you get - its more down the cables you buy in addition to your dazzle (they sadly don't tell you that when you buy it that you need more cables) which seems to effect the quality.

Depending on what cables you use (generally a double ended RCA cable and 3 Y Splitter AV cables [1 male to 2 female]) depends on how much lag you get. You can plug in camcorders and your TV and literally press "Start Capture" and it will record but if your recording yourself playing games you cannot just connect your console as there is about a seconds delay before you see what's happening on your PC. That's where the additional cables come in.

The software that's bundled with it is great if your looking to go into great detail with video editing but if not, you can use the Dazzle with Windows Movie Maker and the end result is fine.

What the Dazzle does is great (and if you want 60FPS there's a patch I believe) but just remember to set it up properly for what your using it for.