>>I've forwarded your response to her, and she thanks you.
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>If much of the end product is expected to be computer animation, it's probably worth the extra money for a digital camera and tapes, so you don't have to fiddle with a video capture card (which is something like $150 for a good one). Of course, you/she might end up installing one of those anyway if she is also playing with video from other sources.

Other sources may be highly improbable, as she has no TV nor VCR :). May as well be the first one to do it without that sort of hardware.