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Thanks Fred. These films range in age from 1984 to present. The early films were taken with a Panasonic camera attached to a portable VTR unit - remember 'em? They were the size of a small suitcase. The Panasonic camera had wires that ran to the recorder. It cost me $500.00 in 1984 - 85 - right in there. The rest were taken with a JVC - one of the first portable camera recorders on the market, cost over $1000.00 - OUCH. None of the tapes I have were taken with digital equipment. I suppose the quality will just have to be what it is. The quality of the tapes is less than desired now - I just want to preserve what I have. The interesting thing about all this is that the kids don't seem to want to watch the tapes. Heck, I don't watch them. My parents are long gone and I have tapes of them but haven't watched them. It is interesting and perhaps a paradigm (I just wanted to try and squeeze that word in there but not sure it applies). Thanks.

Thank you for your response. I have continued to scour the Internet in search of the magic pill and alas, found nothing but pain and misery. It seems that the best way to do this is to hook a digital camcorder to the VCR - play the VCR tape to the digicam and re-record the video onto the digicam then hook the digicam to the computer via a firewire to feed it into an editing program. Thanks much.

Friends: I have a drawer full of video tapes I took of the kids over the years. You-got-it, I want to put them into the computer so I can put them on a DVD-R. I have a VCR I can hook up to the computer but in looking around, I can't figure out where to plug it in. I tried plugging it in to the keyboard port with no luck. Anyway, I was just kidding about the keyboard port! No, really what do I need to hook up my VCR to the computer? A capture card? What is the best way to feed the video into the computer. What device should I buy. Please don't suggest one of those Leadtech cards - I had one and took it out because of error messages, etc. I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere. I did find discussion about various softwares that do the editing. Thank you all for your kind assistance. Will

My New Year's resolution is to NOT buy any software program until I have tested the support department. I downloaded the Ulead program but cannot install it. During the install, it asks me to insert CD 1 or something like that in the CD drive. I sent an email to Ulead two weeks ago, I have received no response. They have convinced me that they don't provide support. I posted on their forum support board and have not received a response there either.

Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. The home of corn, cows, beans, pigs, fresh air and wide open space. Wishing all a very happy and healthy new year. Let there be peace on Earth. Will

I have used my digital camera to download directly into P2E without problems. I can attach my camera to the computer via USB or pull the SD card and plug it into a Zio! card - either way, P2E picks up the drive. Not a problem for me. Works fine. Will