“Brightness” adjusts black levels, “Contrast” adjusts brights. Some cards don’t provide a link that VDub can use here. Different capture cards have different dialog and defaults. These are proc amp settings usually linked to the capture device’s proc amp controls. VDub has no help on this, so be sure you know what’s up when making changes.
Crossbar drivers handle routing of inputs/out-decoders in Windows. Values here are taken from the installed capture driver’s input connections, but can be changed if other options are available. “PAL 60” hybrid, usually for NTSC_M in PAL systems.PAL D/K (most of Central and Eastern Europe).PAL_I (the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, South Africa, Macau).PAL B/G (most of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand).South America (not Brazil), South Korea.territories, Jamaica, Phillippines, Panama, most of The input panel displays a list of available incoming a/v formats (*NTSCV, PAL, etc.). This sets and displays incoming video stream properties. “Output size” can be changed here but I do it in “Custom format” and keep it all in one place. YUY2 is usually for VHS or other analog tape, but some cards only allow YUVY 4:2:2 color matrix capture (it’s the same as YUY2 but has a different order for the chroma pixels). You can change it if you want (at your own risk), or in “Capture” -> “Capture settings…”.Ĭolor space/compression. The “Video standard” is set in “Capture filters” and can’t be changed here.įrame rate corresponds to default of the standard signal format set in “Capture Filters”, below. I use Preview mode and let VirtualDub control display.Ĭlick Video > Preview acceleration > “off”.Ĭlick Video > Video Source and set to Video Svideo Set the Video to Preview, Click Video > Preview. In this case Conextant Polaris Video Capture (DirectShow). The VC500 will show as a Conextant device. Make this a drive other than your C Drive if possible.Ĭlick Device > Conextant Polaris Video Capture (DirectShow) Set a location and name for the intended capture file. This will change you to the capture interface. Now we are ready to setup VirtualDub settings.Ĭlick File > Capture AVI.
Double click on VirtualDub.exe (C:\Utils\VirtualDub\VirtualDub.exe) to start the program.
VirtualDub does not have an installer so you will want to extract the zip file to a location of choice. If you have VirtualDub 1.10.4 or a previous version you are ready to go but if not you can get it here. I have covered this in a previous post Installing HuffyUV on Windows 10.
Next we will need to install HuffyUV 32/64 bit encoders.
Once downloaded extract the files and Open the Driver folder, open the 圆4 folder and run the Setup64.exe file to install the drivers for your VC500. Diamond VC500 driver Installįirst piece of the puzzle os to download and install the Diamond VC500 Windows drivers. So there are several pieces will will need to download and install as well as purchase if you do not have them.
How To Use VirtualDub and Diamond VC500 USB to Capture on Windows 10 Introductionįor this post we will look at what it takes to use the Diamond VC500 USB capture device on Windows 10 using VirtualDub 1.10.4 32-bit to capture from a VCR.