ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 3.0 (Third Generation) - Record Video & Audio from VCR's, VHS, AV, RCA, Hi8, Camcorder, DVD, Turntables, Cassette Tapes [Requires Working VCR/Camcorder & Tapes]

The user manual alone is sets this device apart from any electronic gear I've purchased in a generation!I've done video to digital transfers through the years with other devices, and this is by far the best. It is incredibly functional, yet in a nice small package, with intuitive buttons and menus. Not being connected to a computer is so refreshing, with a micro SD card slot, a USB-C for power or to charge its internal battery, and the built in monitor is wonderful.One thing that any who are expecting higher resolution than this device produces should recognize is that analog video media had a top resolution of 720x480 (and actual television recorded on VHS was 640x480). You've got to accept that video was different from digital, with a much lower ceiling on what could be compressed into its magnetic tape.(And remember that television and camcorders had a nearly-square 4:3 format -- which, in my opinion, should be left at that aspect ratio to maintain its true character; so put the aspect to 640x480 for recorded tv shows. Don't stretch 'em.)From my test recordings and viewing on my desktop's video editor, I am very pleased with its captures.How much do I like this great little tool? I am about to buy another! I returned because I realized that for its price, and the miles of old tv shows on VHS and recorded video on Hi-8 I have waiting for conversion, I could cut my project time in half by running two of them at once. (And I can even do overnight recordings using its simple and effective timer.) I have finally found a way to actually archive my video media, rather than "wishing" I would, or the piecemeal stuff I've done in past years. So I'm going to make this a spring project. Send me another!(I'm now finishing my Beavis and Butt-Head "Moronathon" from MTV, complete with all the goofy stuff broadcast in the 1990s, including commercials. Pee-Wee's Playhouse is next. The original wake-n-bake tv show! Fun times, digitally preserved.)

Worth it!!!!! It’s so easy to use if you need to convert old tapes. I have them downloaded on a flash drive and I can watch all the old movies on the tv.

Works great! My husband has converted all the family vhs tapes from our old camcorder. It was simple to use, and recorded well! Such a great product!

Very nice

Worked as expected. I was able to convert old video tapes to digital. Very easy to use. Purchased many other cables and adapters before this.

Like so many senior citizens, we have a collection of VHS camcorder tapes. We still have a VCR, but our son who would like to show his kids some of his childhood memories, does not. I figured digitizing the VHS tapes would be a solution. Looking into the cost of having them professionally digitized was too expensive. For the cost to digitize six tapes, I could buy this converter. I’m not as tech savvy as I once was, but reading the description and reviews made it seem within my capabilities. One caveat was that you had to have a device to play the media you wish to digitize. As mentioned earlier, we still have a VCR. So I ordered the converter and some thumb drives.The basic directions were clear and within 10 minutes I was ready to start digitizing our nearly 40 year old VHS tapes. The process takes the full time of the video you’ve digitizing, and while doing so you view the video on the device itself. This may be a reason to buy this generation rather than the second generation with its smaller screen. Once finished, I plugged the thumb drive into our computer and it played perfectly. Using the computer you can maneuver through the video, same as you can with any contemporary video. Of course, the quality of the video is very low by today’s standards, but you can show the grandkids how it used to be before you had grey hair! I was surprised to find that seven VHS tapes fit on a 32GB Thumb drive.My one complaint would be the instructions about things like setting the time and date are not clear. Fortunately they were easy to find on line. One other issue I had with the directions was they stated that once you stop the recording, you can’t add to it. I misunderstood this to mean that you couldn’t add anything else to the thumb drive that you used. As I said, I misunderstood it. You can add another recording to that same thumb drive. I probably just misled you by indicating you must use a thumb drive. That is not true, the device has a MicroSD slot.These days I am rarely able to successfully use technology that is new to me, but I had no trouble adapting to the ClearCut Digital Converter. It far surpassed my expectations.

I really wanted to love this. I really did. I tried and I tried and I tried but this thing is just complete junk. This is also the second unit I’ve bought, and both of them crapped out. I’ve never used a more finicky piece of electronics in my life. It has to have the exact kind and type of SD card, the exact kind of cable, the exact kind of formatting on different computers, the stars and the sun have to align for it to work correctly. Jittery video that can only be resolved by using adapters with S video cables?? Dear Lord, I’m not sure what kind of programming these engineers who built this were using, but it’s been an absolute nightmare headache and didn’t solve a single problem in my life, yet created 50. I’ve been back-and-forth with the company on emails every single day trying to fix what’s going on and gotten nowhere. It stopped formatting cards, then started extremely jittery video, then it started not being able to write to cards saying there wasn’t enough space even though they were brand new. Over and over and over I’ve been through so much turmoil trying to use this thing I could write five books. I REALLY wish this would work because I have mountains of tapes I wanted to convert and it worked great for about two or three of them, and crapped out… on two different units! What can I say, if you want to simply convert your videotapes, this thing might be the biggest headache of your life. I’m not sure if it’s because of this model or of all this company’s products are like this, but this one model I wouldn’t buy again if my life depended on it.