So I actually had a very similar experience, purchasing the exact same TOTMC capture device from Amazon and a quality JVC S-VHS VCR on eBay. And later a higher

So I actually had a very similar experience, purchasing the exact same TOTMC capture device from Amazon and a quality JVC S-VHS VCR on eBay. And later a higher quality capture card. I found any free video editing options out there difficult to learn and unintuitive. I ended up using Sony Vegas which was a big improvement. In my case I only needed to offset my audio track to get it to sync and it was fine. However some of my videos have that same tell-tale edge tearing, I didn’t bother trying to fix it.