I purchased an "Alera
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I purchased an "Aleratec DV Cruiser" on eBay for about $20 that works great for capturing and converting analog video (any format) to digital (mpeg). I purchased it about a year ago, but I don’t currently see it available for sale on eBay. Perhaps it was a close-out sale.
But you can visit the Aleratec site that has a a toll-free number that you could inquire.
Here’s the link:
http://www.aleratec.com/aldvcrredivi.html
Good luck!
Brinoto
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I’m putting together a simple, inexpensive system for capturing VHS & Hi-8 video into
an Adobe Premiere Elements project. Obviously, with the lower cost devices, realtime, render-free editing/effects/previews are not available as they would be with a Matrox RT.X2 system.