Customer reviews for KWorld KW-DVD MAKER 2
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Category: Personal Computers
Brand: KWorld
Model: KW-DVD MAKER 2
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I bought this as a replacement of this, Pinnacle Studio MovieBox Plus, that I bought from Newegg. I RMA'd that due to it stopped working after a less than a minute test capture. I suspect it had to do with USB hubs or however laptop USB function, but, whatever. I receive the Kworld device in about 1 business day. FYI, don't use the driver disc that came with the item if you have Windows 7, instead go to the Kworld site and download the Windows 7 certified drivers. I learned the hard way, I used the disc and the driver installation hung and ended up not responding and I had to end it. But after I installed the drivers, I proceeded to install the Cyberlink PowerDirector and PowerProducer. I'd recommend capturing with PowerDirecter, I tried Sony Vegas (it wouldnt detect the device) and I also tried VDub aka Virtual Dub (that completely crashed my laptop and made it reboot, my assumption is its not compatible with it). I use other software to do the final editing, mastering and burning to DVD. Also, capture to an external hdd or a separate internal one than the OS drive.
I would've given it a 5 star rating but I couldn't get it to capture audio when capturing to an MPEG-4 (Xvid) file even though it shows its capturing the audio. I probably just have to tinker with it a bit more to figure it out.
All in all it's a pretty good device and a good buy at about $45. I'd highly recommend it.
KWorld KW-DVD MAKER 2 Review by Serge Kavetsky "Mr. Fix-it" (New Jersey)
This is also sold as the Roxio video converter. If you just want to transfer some run-of-the-mill tapes to digital format, then this is a convenient method. Granted you will have to load drivers onto your computer and some knowledge of DVD authoring would help. The video quality is the same as if you copied from tape to tape, i.e. there is some video depredation. As for the sound being out of sync with the video, this is still a problem although a minor one (some reviewers did not even notice it). If you need to make archival copies of VHS tapes you will need to step up to an ADVC-55 or even ADVC-300 ($150 & $400 respectively).
KWorld KW-DVD MAKER 2 Review by Steven Ebstein
I bought this device to transfer all my 8 mm analog home video to electronic form. I had no trouble getting the device up and running. However, when I tried to capture a 2 hr tape, the capture would abort with some error message relating to trying to capture copyrighted material. Since I had taken those videos with my Sony camcorder, the error was bogus. I could restart the recording from around where it stopped. Sometimes it would go for a decent period of time, other times/tapes were very frustrating.
The fault lies with the bundled software. I found a great free utility online, Debut Video Recording Software, which gives you control over the bit rate, encoding, etc. and accurately reports dropped frames. It *NEVER* crashed, just gracefully dropped frames if the video signal on the tape had a glitch or there was no recorded signal on a portion of the tape. The file sizes were significantly smaller for comparable quality, though I did not know the parameters for the native software.
One problem I have not addressed, yet (I still have to edit/merge tens of hours of video) is poor synchronization of the audio and video. Some of that comes from the playback of my camcorder and some may be due to the capture device. I found much information on the web on splitting the audio and video, then merging them with the time shift removed, but haven't tried it, yet. I did not try the bundled video editing software, but based on the poor quality of the capture software, I wouldn't expect much.
Bottom line is this device is inexpensive and capable of doing what is advertised. Unfortunately, you have to find your own software to make it usable.
KWorld KW-DVD MAKER 2 Details
- USB2.0 VIDEO CAPTURE EDITING DEVICE
- Item Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 2 inches; 0 pounds
- Brand: KWorld
- Model: KW-DVD MAKER 2
- Product Type: Personal Computers
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