If your model has a DVi socket then couple it to a PC using the firewire connection on the PC (should it have one!) this socket is also known as DVi - Firewire or a IEEE1392 socket, they are all the same. Your PC has to have some form of video capture programme installed, like Windows movie maker etc, or Nero (which I use) but be warned, even 30 minutes of video from the camcorder can take up 6GB of hard drive space on your PC before editing, so its best to do things in batches. To be perfectly honest, its much easier to download camcorders video using the camcorders AV output socket into a DVD recorder set for a two hour burn, as DVD recorders generally have better quality compression facilities over a PC's editing programme, once the DVD is made load it into the PC for further editing. I realise that the signal is downloaded into the DVD recorder as an analogue one, but the end result once edited in the PC is as good as anything done where digital is kept all the way through, and I say this as a "very" quality wise type of person. (the statement referring to normal standard video)

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