Trying to transfer video from Sony Dig 8 to PC

I am trying to copy video from my Sony Digital 8 to my PC for editing and burning to DVD. I've been stuggling. Via various google searches...I first downloaded a program called AVS DV to DVD program. It doesn't seem my camera. I then downloaded and installed (I think properly) the Sony drivers and installed the Windows Media Encoder. When I open up the encoder and follow the prescribed steps (http://www.departments.dsu.edu/library/VideoTransfer/Sony_Cam_Transfer.html) the encoder does not list my camera in the list of devices. My PC does recognize the camera's memory stick which I have used to transfer still pix to my PC. I just can't successfully get the video's. Do videos have to be on the memory stick? I'm lost.