I just got my EMR and staright away started my captures
I also bought a JVC S-VHS VCR with Digipure and TBC with 2mb buffer
Following my first impressions

1. The Mediacruise software is pretty primitive and one feels very limited in choice what one can do
2. You have to name a capture file everytime you start a new capture

3. None of good third party softwares recognize EMR such as Ulead MediaStudio Pro so one feels lost with Mediacruise

4. Captures quality is random sometimes good and sometimes bad at 15000 MBPS lately the capture is coming jerky

5. Mediacruise is taking upto 30% CPU resorces so I was wondering what the use of a hardware decoder if it still needs so much CPU.

6. The Mediacruise interface is really annoying with video coming on top of the controls everytime you change something

7. I was wondering if I could use something else than mediacruise?
8. One time I got a error message and then the red light came on and system hanged I could not end the mediacruise process so I have to poweroff the PC

And if for quality first I have to capture at 15 MBPS and then encode using Procoder then I was better off with either AVDC-100 or 300

Please help I can still return the unit

I thought it would help load off my cpu and wanted to avoid one step less of DV-to- MPEG
But now it seems that I first capture MPEG-2 at highest and then encode it with Procoder to fir exactly on one DVD
there is no control in mediacruise where I can say I want to fir a 2 hour VHS on 4.6 GB at a certain VBR?

Please help