Quote Please help! I have Power Director 12 and have been trying to capture my old VHS tapes. The audio comes through, but there is no video. I am a real novice with this software, as I only bought it to transfer my VHS home movies to dvds. I even tried using EZ Grabber, but I cannot figure out how that works. Anyone have step by step instructions on how to do this? Thanks in advance!

To capture VHS, you need to connect an Analog to Digtal (A/D) converter to the output jacks on the back of your VHS player.
The A/D converter like EZ Grabber is required. It had special drivers for the device. Did you install the drivers according to the instructions? If not, you have to remove the drivers that Windows installed and then install the ones to the device.
If you have a laptop, use any USB port on the other end of the A/D device. If youi have a desktop, uses the USB jacks on the back of the computer. If you are out of the US, you need a SCART connector to match the plugs.
Read. read, read the directions for the EZGrabber.
If the VHS tapes are old, damaged, or otherwize not in great condition, there will be problems. You can try connecting a TV to the EZGrabber to check the connections.
Perhaps you can find a tutorial (watch some of these) or other video on how to do this since a step by step guide would be both redundant to what you alreay have and would be a major task to complete.
If you have a particular question with capturing issues, post back.

It looks like EZGrabber is not the best of A/D converters. Look at these videos. .
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Welcome to the Cyberlink Forums. I have used many versions of PD (since Version 9) and I never found the versions capable of doing a respectable job capturing VHS video and converting it to digital, particularly when there is video noise on the source VHS tape, which PD tends to interpret as copyright protection, and then aborts the capture.
I purchased another software package, with a hardware converter, that has worked flawlessly for years on hundreds of VHS tapes. The software, and device, output the VHS tapes in .mpg2 format, which you then import directly into PD for editing.
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Quote Please help! I have Power Director 12 and have been trying to capture my old VHS tapes. The audio comes through, but there is no video. I am a real novice with this software, as I only bought it to transfer my VHS home movies to dvds. I even tried using EZ Grabber, but I cannot figure out how that works. Anyone have step by step instructions on how to do this? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the input and help! The EZ Grabber did not come with instructions, nor was there a "help" icon for more info. First, I went online and watched some videos. They didn't help. So, I just started googling every term that I was not familiar with (e.g. PAL, VCD). Then, I went back to the EZ Grabber and just started playing with it and finally got it to capture my video. Whew! It took a while, but got it to work.