I thought the original question was how to view movies from a camcorder on the PC screen without capturing. Now you seem to be worried about missing your edit deadline because you haven't done the captures yet.

Use your capture s/w to preview the tape, capture it and get editting. What are you waiting for? better to caoture muchmore than you need anyway. It gives more options later.

What am I missing here? Forgte about how to 'preview' it and just capture it and get editing.

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