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Rescue Your Videotapes | 
 enlarge | From: Magix Entertainment Ltd
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £34.97
You Save: £15.02 (30%)
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.9
EAN: 4017218653825
ASIN: B00190Z78U
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Awful! November 11, 2008
R. M. HILL (Bournemouth Dorset)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Warning, this product has to be the biggest disappointment I've ever bought. After copying a home movie to my computer, it appeared that the video and audio got gradually out of sync with each other. Therefore making it near enough impossible to correct. Following the instructions again I got the same result still.
Frustrated I go to the Magix forum, it appears a lot of other customers have the same problem, some posts being 9 months old with no solution or answer to their query. I write to magix directly and get a response a day later saying they'll get back to me. A month later I still haven't heard from them. I've returned it and got a refund. Customer service is non-existent, be warned.
 Very simple, yet versatile and great value November 1, 2008
R. Stone (Hampshire, England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was looking for a way of getting my family's old camcorder tapes on to DVD and, after comparing a number of products, plumped for this one. It was very easy to set up and a built-in demonstration video takes you quickly through all necessary basics. The instructions are short but well written.
The included editing software is intuitive and gives you many options for either simply burning the video straight to DVD or spending more time on it and putting together a professional-looking final product. Within a couple of hours I had captured and edited a section of camcorder video; added titles and fades and burned it to DVD with tailored menus.
'Rescue your Videotapes!' did exactly what I wanted it to.
Only useful if you have a good enough computer October 27, 2008
M. Eagle (UK)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Having thought my PC would be able to cope with running this program I was sadly mistaken. Even though it met minimum requirements I could only capture the recording at VHS quality. Any higher and the sound would stutter. Even at VHS quality I noticed sound lag compared to the picture. I even downloaded the new XP service pack 3 compatible drivers from the Magix website but that caused the software to only allow selection of the soundcard drivers and not those for the USB capture device!
Lucky for me I have a newer laptop which has an AMD Sempron processor, AMD processors I am led to believe are the better chips for handling graphics programs. Anyway I installed the software on that and was able to capture video at DVD quality with the processor only running at 50% capacity. Having captured the video successfully the software comes into its own, allowing you to create DVD menu's and chapter selection screens, onto which you can import your own pictures and music. Be prepared to wait a long time to write the final project to disc though, for a half hour recording it took just over 1 hour to encode and write the data to disc, which for some reason required MPEG2 activation from Magix via an emailed code. Also be prepared for the recording to take up a lot of hard drive space. The half hour recording took up 2 gigabytes of space! Playing back the recorded DVD is just like any other and the picture and sound seemed to be in sync.
The software does have other bonuses, you can import DVD or video files and alter them amongst other things.
Like many others have said the Magix support website isnt very helpful and if i hadnt had the laptop which solved the problems, I like others would have sent this product back. As it is when I sent an email request they wanted me to download a fault finding program even though I gave explicit detail as to what went wrong. They dont even have a dedicated forum of any worth for this particular product. When the product works it does the job well but when it cripples your PC trying to run it it is poor. To be honest you should only consider this solution if you have a dual core processor with lots of memory, a decent graphics card and a fairly large hard drive!
Does exactly what it says if you have the system requirements it states October 25, 2008
David Fletcher (Bristol)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I installed this on my machine with the system requirements matching what it states on this product and it works great, had tons of old vhs recordings of bbq's and such like from my teen years and its been hilarious to get them off the tapes and up onto Youtube/facebook etc so thanks Magix. No problems with syncing at all! (Just remember to have a machine powerful enough (read the system requirements) and hey presto! no problem!
A complete waste of time and money October 23, 2008
Dr. M. W. Patterson (Leicester, UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I agree totally with Mr Lowry. I too could not get the Magix recordings to keep audio and video in synch, and others have reported the same problem. I agree too that Magix are not helpful. The system is OK if you decide that all you want to do is to dub music on to the images. It's a pity, because there are some good features, but as it stands, it is useless for 'rescuing videotapes'. Regretfully, I have had to return the product to Amazon for a refund.
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