The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)

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After much annoyance dealing with fiddly capturing methods, I thought I’d show you the method I stumbled upon that works amazingly well, is fairly cheap, and awfully easy. I’ve been thrilled with it, and I think you’ll be too.

This here is the composite to HDMI “upscaler” I got. Note that in the product description, it say’s it can’t improve image quality, even though upscaler in the title. Go figure.

And here’s the capture doodad:

These links worked as of 7/4/19. In the future, you may need to search for similar alternatives.

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