Best Video Capture Software.

[flynn]

Hi. I hope someone one can help.Im looking for Video Software to copy from VHS to laptop
that is compatible with widows 7.and is free.

[Richard_in_wales]

I used one similar to
USB VHS TO DVD CONVERTER / VIDEO CONVERTER / CAPTURE | eBay

Came with Ulead editing software. The software is not supposed to work on Windows 7 64 bit but I found a work around on the net, can't remember much as I've not used it for ages but it works fine.

[flynn]

ok Thanks Richard.I have the leads and editing software.but could not get it to work on windows 7.
everything was fine except no audio.

[MartinU]

If you can capture to MPEG, you can then use VideoRedo or other similar software to top-and-tail the recording and take out the adverts. The advantage of VRD over conventional editing software such as Ulead is that it is a lot faster because it is not uncompressing and recompressing the video, apart from for a few frames either side of an edit. You can't add effects like fades, captions etc, but for recording off-air (either live or from an off-air VHS recording) you often don't want to do anything fancy apart from taking out adverts and continuity announcements.

[flynn]

Thanks Martin.like I said everything works when its going from the VCR to the Comp.its just that there is no sound.
i will give it try.