>Thanks Chris.
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>Now that I've managed to get MPGs I'm going to give the Windows Movie Maker a go first and se what happens.
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>A friend of mine got some sort of hardware device that you plug in the A/V cable from his old VHS camcorder and it sends the video over USB to the computer. I'm not sure who makes it. It seemed pretty adequate for transferring tapes to dvd.
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Some of the newer programs (including Studio 10 i believe) have a feature where u can dump VHS from the player thru the PC directly to a DVD burn. Unattended and your tape doesnt fill your harddrive 10 minutes in. Great for archiving. And Studio allows u to record portions of a DVD to mpegs so that u can pick and chose when building a movie. The first version of MSFT's movie maker would not output to DVD format. I'm guessing the newer versions do.