If your camcorder has a Firewire socket then you need a Firewire cable and a Firewire socket on your computer to connect them together. You don't need any driver software, Windows has all the necessary drivers built in. You can use Windows Movie Maker for the capture, but if you want to burn your finished movies onto DVD then look at something like Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 which is a one stop shop application (capture, edit and burn). You can download a 30 day trial of it and other software that is listed here on the forum and try it out and see if it's what you want before buying.

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