Got the same problem, only worse now. After the failure of the good old Sony digital tape camcorder I decided to go to memory card - for ease of transfer as much as anything, but also smaller media than tape and no mechanicals to go wrong. Only problem is they are all HD now, and you get a different file format that most software won't use.
I tried WMM (suggested by Bushfiva above). It's pretty basic but does what's required. Only thing is it seemed to only produce Windoze's own format (WMV) for the finished movie. OK for viewing on the PC, or off a network server via a media player, but needs a conversion to make a DVD from it.
Cheers
UFO
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Had another go with WMM and discovered you can save files as AVI and other formats if you know where to look. Maybe I'll get my holiday videos trtansferred to DVD now!
Last edited by UniFoxOs; 23rd February 2013 at 12:53.
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