How to make dvd ,vcd from mini dv

Firewire cards are cheap. Sending it out through the AV cord will convert to analog and then the computer would have to convert it back to digital. And you still need hardware the hardware to input the AV signal to your computer. Just buy a Firewire card and life will be easier.

You need and AV capture card to do that if you dont have a firewire port.

Use the supplied AV cable that came with the camcorder, connect the audio (left/white, right/red and yellow/video) to the capture card AV inputs and start capturing. You can make the setting on the capture card, whether it should be captured in DVD or VCD format