Depending on the make of camcorder you use, you may be able to shoot your video with the camcorder not having a tape or disc inside it and just record it directly onto the hard disc using Firewire. Although it sounds like you have a mini dvd camcorder and it won't have Firewire. But most camcorders require you to have either a tape or disc inserted and you have to press buttons or they tend to power off after a few minutes.

If this happens then you will have to shoot your video on tape or disc and when done put the tape or disc into the cd/dvd drive and copy the video across to the hard disc. Depending on what software you have this may be easy or difficult. By cd, I take it you mean mini dvd? A cd can only hold one sixth the amount of video a full size dvd can.

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