There has been some discussion about capturing analog to a DV camera first or using a pc card to capture it. Before Katrina wiped out my editing studio, I was using a Toaster Flyer in a 4000 to edit my video and then transfered it to my pc to burn to DVD. I tried both ways using a Radeon All In Wonder video card to digitize, or my VX 2000, which I then tranfered via firewire. Using my VX definitely gave the better quality, though it was often not worth the extra step to me. I now have a Panasonic DVD recoder I got from Walmart for abour $140 and it works great. I record simutaneously to DVD and mini DV on my VX. I have to say the quality is quite good and is much, much faster than trying to first transfer to PC, render, and burn. If you are just copying your old analog tapes, get a standalone burner. If you want to edit, there are lots of solutions, but the Toaster Flyer has virtually no render time and is very simple to learn. Of course, you will still have to tranfer the video to pc to burn to DVD. As far as quality goes, since we are talking of standard definition, there is really no disadvantage to the Toaster Flyer as the compression quality exceeds the broadcast quality of SD TV. You can get the most expensive uncompressed editing system there is and it won't neccessarily look any better that the Toaster Flyer on SD. Jule
