If you already have a digital camcorder and a firewire port, the absolute EASIEST and best quality way, is to just plug the output cables into the camcorder output and plug the RCA cables into the output on the VCR... The "output" to RCA jacks work *BOTH* ways. So assuming you already have this digital camcorder and a firewire card, you can capture directly into the PC... piece of cake! Then it's up to you to decide if you want to burn to dvd, or vcd...or SVCD. I've found that you can convert it to SVCD and it looks perfect on a TV...and its not bad on a PC... But it's easily as good as the source at SVCD quality on TV.
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If you already have a digital camcorder and a firewire port, the absolute EASIEST and best quality way, is to just plug the output cables into the camcorder output and plug the RCA cables into the output on the VCR... The "output" to RCA jacks work *BOTH* ways. So assuming you already have this digital camcorder and a firewire card, you can capture directly into the PC... piece of cake! Then it's up to you to decide if you want to burn to dvd, or vcd...or SVCD. I've found that you can convert it to SVCD and it looks perfect on a TV...and its not bad on a PC... But it's easily as good as the source at SVCD quality on TV.