The few times I have done it, I do similar to that. My camcorder has an anolog to digital passthru. So I can play an analog source (like a VHS tape), pass it into the camcorder, which passes it along to the firewire port and into my iMac. I then just use iMovie to capture it, and then export as Toast VCD format. Chews up a bit of space as iMovie only captures in DV format (which is freaking huge because it is supposed to be lossless), and I also need the additional space to store the VCD formated MPEG before burning, since I can't export directly to the burner. But it works for shorter clips (The longest I have tried is a 7 minute Tex Avery cartoon... but I could probably do up to an hour or so on my 60 gig drive... not sure) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>