It's difficult to find a lot of information about your camcorder on the Internet but it doesn't appear to record in mpeg4 format, so maybe your are recording in wmv although the quality should be better. For a Mini DV camcorder you need Firewire to connect everything together. You already have Windows Movie Maker on your computer and this will allow you to capture video from the camcorder to the computer, once you have installed your new Firewire card and connect everything together using your new 4 pin (camcorder end) to 6 pin (computer end) cable.

WMM will not let you burn your finished movie to DVD directly, you will need some other software to do that, I would recommend Adobe Premiere Elements 4, other forum members will suggest their favourites aswell. You can download a 30 day trial of all of the popular editing software listed here on the forum (just go onto their respective websites and find the download section), so you can try them out and see which one you like best.

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