home video to computer

[napka]

How can I transfer home movies from video tapes to my computer (so I can later burn them on dvd's)?

[davidprout]

If your tapes are from your camcorder and this is digital then you need a firewire cable plus a compatible graphics card. If the tapes are analogue (VHS etc) then you will need specialist software and probably hardware. I use Pinnacle Studio 400 but there are lots of others. If you are going to transfer tapes to youtr hard drive you will need a very big drive as the files take up a lot of room. To write to DVD you will need a DVD burner which is very expensive.