Reviews for Elgato Video Capture

Elgato Video Capture does not work with USB 3 i what tried every think to make it work but does not.
If you Have older Mac with only USB 2 and you can get it to work it is great
I am now looking for some think that with work to replace it

I am not a computer geek (ask my kids), but I was able to use to this software and device within in minutes of setting it up. It converted old VHS movies directly to imovie. I didn't have to worry about formats- it just directed the VHS videos into imovie. No problems, no updates needed. Worked great!

Easy to set up,worked the first time,great results.Not sure why some users had trouble with quality,but I suspect the quality of the source video may be the problem.VHS tapes do not age very well,old vcr's need to be cleaned and make sure the tracking is setup properly.I'm looking forward to converting old home movies to digital.

This is my first time ever responding to these reviews but I needed to say something about this piece of garbage product. (WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!) Picture quality is terrible. No way should Apple even sell this. Returning this after I finish typing. Any one that gives this more than one star must be manufacturing this product. Also its not my computer as its brand new and top of the line MAC.

guys,

i expect a small markup due to the location of Australia etc etc but when i look at the Apple US website i can buy this product for $99.95 US... over here exactly the same product is $199.95... that's $100++ difference.... how can you possibly justify this or do i get a free months subscription to Foxtel thrown in ?

i had this for about 3 months now. quick hook up, too my 3D blue ray player.now i can tape all my blue ray movies to my IMAC . and view it on my apple tv, and in any room. and the viewing window is way cool,and it ask you if you want to save in iTunes. i wonder if it burn 3D movies too? i will try this when i get some free time,and keep you guys posted.....

Sometimes when I'm recording my games, I get a lag during recording which speeds up the finished clip for no reason! It still works, but it would be nice if someone can fix the lag problem....

Need something to back up my old VHS home videos from 1989 onward before I lost them forever, but importantly I wanted to go straight from the device to iMovie to chop out the bits I don't want.

Many other devices encoded the video to a format that iMovie wouldn't understand, so I had to go through the tedious process of re-encoding to a format iMovie would like, and then even after that iMovie wanted to optimise the file before working with it (regardless of the optimize checkbox).

Elgato Video capture is perfect, super easy to setup and use, encodes in a reliable format that doesn't have crazy high filesize and most importantly, I can go straight from my newly encoded video in to iMovie instantly. It's not very CPU intensive whilst encoding either, so doesn't slow your Mac down to a slog.

If I had to pick one gripe with this, it would be the record length options are not varied enough, I have LP tapes or numerous lengths and the fixed options just don't cut it, but that isn't too much of a problem, cos you can trim your video after its encoded from within the elgato app anyway.

Fantastic device and worth every penny imo, cos once those home videos go, they are gone forever!

It works easily enough, but the resulting digitized video is so blurry you won't want to watch it. I'm angry at Apple for recommending this product. Total waste.

Worked fine for a while but then began to quit while recording and eventually to stop recognizing USB2 port. Frustrating to leave it recording then to come back and find it has quit.