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Dazzle DVC 80 (USB connector)
Reviewed by
Erik Sebellin
on 04/18/2001
Dazzle DVC 80 (USB connector)
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  • Product Description: Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80 - Video input adapter
  • Video Input: Video capture adapter - USB - External
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The good: Easy to install; simple to use; ships with a good editing application.

The bad: No cables included; support is mediocre.

The bottom line: For the casual home user, this reasonably priced device with an all but nonexistent learning curve offers an easy way to convert analog video to digital form.

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CNET editors' review

  • Reviewed by:
    Erik Sebellin
  • Reviewed on: 04/18/2001
The Digital Video Creator 80, big brother to Dazzle's more restrictive DVC 50, is an easy-to-use digital video importer suited to the casual user, and it delivers higher quality for $20 more than the DVC 50.The Digital Video Creator 80, big brother to Dazzle's more restrictive DVC 50, is an easy-to-use digital video importer suited to the casual user, and it delivers higher quality for $20 more than the DVC 50.

Fast installation
The DVC 80 ($69.99) comes complete with a quick-start guide, free access to Dazzle's Webcast Theater (an online service that lets you post streaming movies on the Web), and a CD-ROM with device drivers and MGI's VideoWave 4 SE video-editing program. While the guide is complete and easy to follow, CNET's evaluation unit also came with a barely legible addendum to the guide that included a few extra installation steps and looked like it was produced at a photocopy shop.

The DVC 80's system requirements are pretty basic: a 300MHz Pentium II, 64MB of RAM, a powered USB port, and Windows Me or 98. Simply connect the DVC 80 to your computer's USB port, insert the CD-ROM into the drive, and tell Windows that the driver is on the CD. Installation of MGI's VideoWave 4 SE is automatic and painless. The software's decent documentation, in HTML format, loads automatically with the application.

Simple operation
The DVC 80 comes with left and right audio-in ports, a video-in port, and an S-Video port, but it doesn't include cables. To transfer video and audio from your camcorder to the DVC 80, you'll have to use the RCA cable that came with your camcorder or buy one. Plug one end of this the cable into the camcorder, the other end into the DVC 80's audio-in and video-in ports, and you're ready to rumble. A diagram printed on the product's box depicts where all the cables go, and the quick-start guide shows you how everything works. Continue reading

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