ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 (Second

14 reviews for ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 (Second

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   G. K (verified owner) – 4 December 2021

   Amazing – I am so pleased with this converter. I purchased a similar product a few years ago and it was junk, I tried to convert my home videos with it and only was successful with covering two of the fifty that I have. With this one I get them done as fast as I can run them

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   R. O (verified owner) – 10 December 2021

   Works well in some cases – Transferring my mini VHS recordings did not go so well, the video kept “bouncing” or “glitching” during the capture, even though they play fine with no issues on the VCR. I tried all the suggested fixes except using the HDMI (my VCR only has RCA and coax capability). Unfortunately I had gotten rid of the actual camcorder years ago so all I had to use was a VCR with the mini tape in its tape adapter playing in the VCR. Again, running the video this way and watching it on the TV it was fine, but it didn’t capture the video well this way. HOWEVER, it worked great converting the videos from my actual regular VHS tapes. So it was good enough.

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   K. K (verified owner) – 21 December 2021

   Does Not Get Much Easier – This is one of the easiest technology items I have ever used. It took all of 3 minutes to start downloading VHS tapes to a thumb drive. Sound & picture quality is as good as the tapes themselves *which are a bit dated). I could have paid for a cheaper device but the reviews on this one made it seem easy which was most important (along with quality). Glad i picked this device.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   K. K (verified owner) – 19 February 2022

   Does Not Get Much Easier – This is one of the easiest technology items I have ever used. It took all of 3 minutes to start downloading VHS tapes to a thumb drive. Sound & picture quality is as good as the tapes themselves *which are a bit dated). I could have paid for a cheaper device but the reviews on this one made it seem easy which was most important (along with quality). Glad i picked this device.

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   T. D (verified owner) – 21 February 2022

   Extremely pleased with this purchase! Highly recommended. – I have a large library of VHS tapes of home movies going back all the way to the late 1980s. Last year I decided to start copying them to digital files to preserve them.

6. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   R. O (verified owner) – 23 May 2022

   Works well in some cases – Transferring my mini VHS recordings did not go so well, the video kept “bouncing” or “glitching” during the capture, even though they play fine with no issues on the VCR. I tried all the suggested fixes except using the HDMI (my VCR only has RCA and coax capability). Unfortunately I had gotten rid of the actual camcorder years ago so all I had to use was a VCR with the mini tape in its tape adapter playing in the VCR. Again, running the video this way and watching it on the TV it was fine, but it didn’t capture the video well this way. HOWEVER, it worked great converting the videos from my actual regular VHS tapes. So it was good enough.

7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   O. S (verified owner) – 27 May 2022

   Buy it! It’ll make your life easier….really! – Before buying this ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 I had used an older video capture device (made by Honestech), as well as a “generic” converter I bought on Amazon about a month ago for around $20. Both of the aforementioned items worked “just ok”. The Honestech product was just too old and clunky; the newer capture device was OK, but took a lot of work to get it to work in the way of using a third-party capture program. I spent a number of weeks capturing and editing from my mini DV, Hi8, and standard 8 camcorders using a number of very highly rated free programs, including OBS Studio, MiniTool MovieMaker, etc. I was able to get them to work, and they seem to do a good job with the capture card I was using, but there seemed to be something missing in the way of detail in the picture quality. So, I tried one of the video capture services on Amazon that charges you $12 to convert a tape to MP4 format. I paid the $12, paid $8.40 to ship the mini DV via USPS, and included a check for $6 to get the company to ship back my tape to me. So all-in-all, it cost me $26 to “test” the quality of what a professional company can do vs what I could do using the previously mentioned capture programs. The programs allowed you to set FPS, sound quality in bits, bit capture rate of the video, etc., etc., etc. Countless possible combinations to try to find the “best” or even optimal capture quality for my tapes. I literally WASTED countless hours capturing and converting, using various FPS, quality/noise reduction algorithms, etc, etc., hence my desire to “test” a professional capture service to see how they would do. I eventually got a link to download my professionally captured video, and guess what: it was “marginally” better than what I had been doing on my own, testing many trial-and-error capture and conversion possibilities. So I decided to try the ClearClick device since it had a “Free Returns” policy. I figured, what do I have to lose. Well, long-story-short, as the saying goes, the ClearClick video capture did just as good, if not better than the professional service did for the $12 per tape. And, it is SUPER EASY TO USE!!!! It is saving me a lot of time because all I do is put the USB in, press play on the camcorder, and then after a second press Record on the ClearClick, and it captures perfectly in ready-to-go MP4 format. It also captures in 720×480, which is the mini DV standard, whereas the Amazon video capture service captures in 640×480, which is OK for Hi8 or below, but not for mini DV, which is the higher 720×480. But you have to use an S-Video cable (which I also got on Amazon specifically for this purpose; get the $20 Monster cable, not a generic $6 one since you’re already spending money to capture and archive valuable memories). So ClearClick is as good as, or better than a professional video capture service. It’s cheaper in the long run if you plan on doing at least a dozen or so tapes. And it’s super easy to use. The only thing I would like, as others have mentioned, is the ability to set a SPECIFIC automatic record shutoff time for the recording to stop. I have 1 hour tapes that will sometimes run two to three minutes over, and two hour tapes that’ll do the same thing. I do not want to set the time for 60 minutes or 120 minutes and have the last few minutes not captured. Nor do I want to use the “schedule recording function”, as their technical support suggested to me when I inquired about a possible firmware update they could use to allow setting an exact record Stop function. I’d like to be able to set EXACTLY 64 minutes stop recording time, for instance. If they had this feature, I’d give it 6 stars if AMZN allowed. Nonetheless, the product rates a solid 5 stars and my highest recommendation. As far as the “bundle” software, which is VideoPad Video Editor: it is very good and easy to use, on a par with other products, I suppose. It doesn’t capture, just edits and saves to MP4 in the same size or smaller file, whereas for some reason, the free products, like OBS, etc., end up saving an edited file in a larger size, even if all you did was delete/shorten the video…makes no sense whatsoever, since you’re shortening a video and saving it in the same MP4 format at the same exact resolution and sampling rate. The 32 GB USB that comes with it is a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0. Buy the ClearClick; you’ll save a lot of time and will easily capture your old tapes.

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   T. D (verified owner) – 29 June 2022

   Extremely pleased with this purchase! Highly recommended. – I have a large library of VHS tapes of home movies going back all the way to the late 1980s. Last year I decided to start copying them to digital files to preserve them.

9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   K. Z (verified owner) – 10 August 2022

   Works like advertised. – This is the third different VHS to digital converter, and it is by far the best. I have literally converted dozens of VHS tapes with no problems whatsoever.

10. 

    Rated 4 out of 5

    J. S (verified owner) – 28 August 2022

    koolio – works way big. great quality transfer from supers and lesser quality tapes.

11. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    G. K (verified owner) – 5 October 2022

    Amazing – I am so pleased with this converter. I purchased a similar product a few years ago and it was junk, I tried to convert my home videos with it and only was successful with covering two of the fifty that I have. With this one I get them done as fast as I can run them

12. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    O. S (verified owner) – 7 October 2022

    Buy it! It’ll make your life easier….really! – Before buying this ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 I had used an older video capture device (made by Honestech), as well as a “generic” converter I bought on Amazon about a month ago for around $20. Both of the aforementioned items worked “just ok”. The Honestech product was just too old and clunky; the newer capture device was OK, but took a lot of work to get it to work in the way of using a third-party capture program. I spent a number of weeks capturing and editing from my mini DV, Hi8, and standard 8 camcorders using a number of very highly rated free programs, including OBS Studio, MiniTool MovieMaker, etc. I was able to get them to work, and they seem to do a good job with the capture card I was using, but there seemed to be something missing in the way of detail in the picture quality. So, I tried one of the video capture services on Amazon that charges you $12 to convert a tape to MP4 format. I paid the $12, paid $8.40 to ship the mini DV via USPS, and included a check for $6 to get the company to ship back my tape to me. So all-in-all, it cost me $26 to “test” the quality of what a professional company can do vs what I could do using the previously mentioned capture programs. The programs allowed you to set FPS, sound quality in bits, bit capture rate of the video, etc., etc., etc. Countless possible combinations to try to find the “best” or even optimal capture quality for my tapes. I literally WASTED countless hours capturing and converting, using various FPS, quality/noise reduction algorithms, etc, etc., hence my desire to “test” a professional capture service to see how they would do. I eventually got a link to download my professionally captured video, and guess what: it was “marginally” better than what I had been doing on my own, testing many trial-and-error capture and conversion possibilities. So I decided to try the ClearClick device since it had a “Free Returns” policy. I figured, what do I have to lose. Well, long-story-short, as the saying goes, the ClearClick video capture did just as good, if not better than the professional service did for the $12 per tape. And, it is SUPER EASY TO USE!!!! It is saving me a lot of time because all I do is put the USB in, press play on the camcorder, and then after a second press Record on the ClearClick, and it captures perfectly in ready-to-go MP4 format. It also captures in 720×480, which is the mini DV standard, whereas the Amazon video capture service captures in 640×480, which is OK for Hi8 or below, but not for mini DV, which is the higher 720×480. But you have to use an S-Video cable (which I also got on Amazon specifically for this purpose; get the $20 Monster cable, not a generic $6 one since you’re already spending money to capture and archive valuable memories). So ClearClick is as good as, or better than a professional video capture service. It’s cheaper in the long run if you plan on doing at least a dozen or so tapes. And it’s super easy to use. The only thing I would like, as others have mentioned, is the ability to set a SPECIFIC automatic record shutoff time for the recording to stop. I have 1 hour tapes that will sometimes run two to three minutes over, and two hour tapes that’ll do the same thing. I do not want to set the time for 60 minutes or 120 minutes and have the last few minutes not captured. Nor do I want to use the “schedule recording function”, as their technical support suggested to me when I inquired about a possible firmware update they could use to allow setting an exact record Stop function. I’d like to be able to set EXACTLY 64 minutes stop recording time, for instance. If they had this feature, I’d give it 6 stars if AMZN allowed. Nonetheless, the product rates a solid 5 stars and my highest recommendation. As far as the “bundle” software, which is VideoPad Video Editor: it is very good and easy to use, on a par with other products, I suppose. It doesn’t capture, just edits and saves to MP4 in the same size or smaller file, whereas for some reason, the free products, like OBS, etc., end up saving an edited file in a larger size, even if all you did was delete/shorten the video…makes no sense whatsoever, since you’re shortening a video and saving it in the same MP4 format at the same exact resolution and sampling rate. The 32 GB USB that comes with it is a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0. Buy the ClearClick; you’ll save a lot of time and will easily capture your old tapes.

13. 

    Rated 4 out of 5

    J. S (verified owner) – 16 November 2022

    koolio – works way big. great quality transfer from supers and lesser quality tapes.

14. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    K. Z (verified owner) – 23 December 2022

    Works like advertised. – This is the third different VHS to digital converter, and it is by far the best. I have literally converted dozens of VHS tapes with no problems whatsoever.