Let me get this straight, you want to capture video from your digital
camcorder and burn it direct to a DVD without editing it?

Yes, Roxio and Nero will both do this, and no, neither are free, but most
PCs do come with one or the other.

I would recommend capturing the video to the hard drive and then editing it
first and only when you are satisfied, then burning it to a DVD.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



"mandy" <mandy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ok, l,m a novice to all this so l don,t know what is best.l want to put on
> disc from dv cam and want to know what you would recommend to do this with
> one package to capture, encode, author, and burn.Also l don,t know if l
> can
> ask this but is there a freeware that will do all this. thanks for any
> info