Many quirks, but much better than nothing!

Installation under Windows 7:
- I can choose the path for program templates and user data allegedly free ... super.
- Annoying: you must tick, what you do not want to install, with a to be "Ask Toolbar" here as "MAGIX Ask Toolbar" palmed, also a program "simplichcheck" - which is what makes it? No explanation ... so do not install. Just stupid stuff like that.
- Moment of shock during installation: as happened in Task 3 of 3, according to the progress bar first nothing except dasss the Iinstallations DVD rotates loudly ... after two minutes it goes but then suddenly afloat on (!). Attention, here are tired copied to the hard disk larger than 2GB.
- After the program starts as promised automatically installing the drivers ... the whole thing takes less than ten minutes.
- Then restart, enter the serial number and lot? Not quite. You absolutely need an email address, then the product is registered online. Here are my personal data will be requested, these are mandatory. Only the You can easily find in this process, certainly only because there is a legal basis here.
- After filling (Why not before) I receive an indication that I would have an account already. So Password reminder anschmeißen, after all, that seems to work well. Very annoying and datenkrakige procedure! Magix, this registration form please optionalisieren.
- After the password reminder e-mail arrives instantly. Good. Some providers so it takes forever until a password reminder arrives. After that I can enter a new password on a Web site. But again, I will patronized. "Your password is insecure. Please enter a strong password, ideally consisting of letters in uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters." - Unnecessary cruelty.
- Interestingly, I come in the course of registration is no longer from the password reminder form out and can only cancel. This is just unreal. Lapidar seems to point out that some parts of the program will not work without registration. But what? Is the whole registration process so in truth but only as an option? I leave it for the time being in the present state of things, possibly I can make up for the operation safely later.

So, but now it's finally happening times the Videoretterei!

The program was closed, I start new again. First watch the introduction video ... a very short spot that shows what to do: cable connecting the video game machine, start the program, record, edit, all very simple - finish. Very promising, let's see if this is really so.

I close the program back to the PC with the - to connect video equipment.

The USB port is shaking pretty bad quality

And aha, this is the registering: to use the MPEG-2 format for the conversion can take place, the MXV format. The formats are not further explained.

However, the recording work, and really quite simple, as promised.

Seems it. After fifteen minutes of sound in the preview is no longer output. I break the video recording, therefore, after a while, I can already hear the sound back. The apparently ran all the time, was simply not be heard during recording? I won.

A second attempt, this time without any problems - for one half hour is the video.

Saving is then as WMV to the hard drive possible (or burning a DVD, but at first I choose the storage on PC). The storing takes 17 minutes.

Then I try directly or to burn the video as a DVD from the program. I choose a Verbatim DVD-R media and - for fun, despite a miserable quality of VHS - very good encoding quality. But why is the now encoded ever again? For whatever reason. So again "mixdown" ... it takes time with the selected high-quality settings for my half-hour videotape but not so long, even after five minutes of the DVD burning process starts with burning speed 16x. Finished after a further three minutes short review: The VHS video was burned to DVD.

Small drawback: The DVD is called "Video Project 201". : - / If I had not noticed before burning that I had somewhere to set the. Too Bad.

Otherwise conclusion after the first rescue:
As promised quick and easy, except for the mishap on the first record with the audio output.

A few days later I start a second attempt and want to see to see if I an old (one hour long) can copy Purchase videotape from the US on DVD for testing purposes:
- VCR connected - there are all the necessary cables at!
Open program -
- "Welcome" screen: "Create a new video project"
- Entered a speaking project name (which appears ggbf later as a DVD title.)
"Import video from an analog source (eg VCR)" -
- "Import": "Magix USB grabbers 4", "composite"
- Recording Quality "Very High", "Advanced View": "NTSC 433"
"Transfer video to computer": Start video and in the program -
...
then the following message appears: "Your computer is overloaded with the current Aaufnahmeeinstellungen To ensure an error-free recording, lower the recording quality, and try again.."
Sorry? My PC is not very old, take an old VHS should create loose. Here obviously manages the program, the capacity is not good?

Try again, suddenly stands there. ". The recorder supports you set audio sample rate (44100 Hz) Do not change in the expanded view and select among the recording quality setting" user-defined "will open the dialog for . Settings of recording format Set there one of the following audio sample rates a: 48000, 4800 (Hz) ".

Well, I put such a. Then the next message: "The frame rate has been changed and you have set Recording format is no longer compatible with the recording device you have set" ... And I've switched only of "Pal" to "NTSC", after all, it is a VHS cassette from the US ... oh dear. That's me all too complicated, frankly. I expect the Video Saver program is that it is fully automatic. I would like to not have to worry about settings.
But immerhn it runs on the required changes again, the recording works so far.

Unfortunately, the quality of the input signal is catastrophic, but the Savior program can now really nothing.

- After 46 minutes breaks again from the sound output. I'll still continue recording.
- After the end of the cassette "Start Video Editing"
- It is confirmed: in fact, the sound is transferred to the end, stopping only the output during recording.
- On a Verbatim DVD-R burn, write speed 16x that lasts inclusive "mixdown" then exactly 20 minutes!
- Playback of the DVD works. But the quality of the full screen is again much worse than the small preview during recording suggested, too bad.

Despite the numerous quirks I consider the program for creating Emergency reminder backups for very helpful ... the result is in my test cases a pretty bad VHS copy on DVD, but with me with very poor output quality. Much better than nothing!