I discovered that my Intel PC Camera Pro Pack ($100?) with the RCA video jack in the back of it and the Create and Share software worked beautifully to capture input from an analog camcorder as an AVI file (running video into the PC's sound card). And the TPMGen freeware recommended on this site encoded that AVI very neatly into MPEG1 VCD format using its simple wizard. That burned easily to CD and it looks great. I'm looking forward to archiving alot of analog video of my kids, and making VCD's to send to grandparents.

How simple-- no video capture card needed, audio is in synch, it all burned flawlessly to CD!

We use the camera for video conferencing, capturing JPEG pictures (even from photos), taking video. The software that comes with the Pro Pack is great for editing.

Pc is a two year old low end HP Celeron 433 mhz, 8 gig harddrive, 128K mem. Encoding time is about 4 1/2 times the length of the video.

For newbies, this is a great way to go!