It even has an EASY button. LOL I admit, that's what I recorded with last night.

It remains to be seen if I can handily import, edit and share the videos. If not, back it goes for a different (and easier) model. DS expects to come over and watch the recordings today.

I hear you on the Sony computers. They aren't good quality. I used work in the computer business before Sony was into them. Today they are sort of like the Packard Bell of the mid 1990's.

sony's usually come with their own software programs to edit movies but I have to admit, I hate it. LOL

I know nappy loves Imovies and I have heard a lot of great things on them and it is really making me itching for a MAC, but all our puters are still running great cause I keep on fixing/updating/tweaking them...maybe I should tweak it so they'll break?? LOLOL

one of my brothers just graduated from Art/Design school with specialty in animation and he uses a lot of flash for the web and pinnacle for his movies.

my other brother has a degree in theatrical production with specialty in directing (I think that's how it is phrased) and he uses pinnacle and roxio.

I only play with the movies cause that isn't my strength and I am only scratching the surface. But the trick is to make a copy of the movie that you want to edit right after you've downloaded it to your puter. that way, you can keep on playing with the copy and mess with it all you want to.

as with everything else, it'll come with practice but once you've have fun with it, it might become addicting then I'll have to send you our movies and pay you to edit them...LOL

do they still make Packard Bell???

(just so you know why I think Gateway sucks these days, it was acquired by the same company that has acquired Packard Bell: Both are owned by Acer(major outstanding stock)LOL)

I got the movies saved to the computer, but I don't have a DVD writer. So I ordered an internal DVD-RW drive from newegg.com. I'll install that in a few days when it arrives.

Then I'll make DVD's of the video for all the guys in the band so they can see it and also use it for practice.

DS was critiqueing (sp?) as he watched. I have to say with all modesty, that DS had the best performance in the group, though they all did a good job.

try to use DVD- (negative) for the best bet to play on most of the DVD players.

just curious as to what kind of files these vids were saved in. MPEG2? If so, it should be a cake walk.

.WMV format and it wants a DVD to record to. Windows Vista default I suppose...

Thanks for the tip on the negative.