Newbi Can't Connect device

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I'm completely new to this. I want to transfer holiday videos taken on a Sony Handycam to my hard disk via Movie Maker. My problem is I plug my handicam playback through the Computer's 'line in' but the two devices are not communicating.

Where do I even start?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

If it's a digital camcorder, you start with a firewire connection.... if an
analog one, start by looking into analog capture devices.

I have Digital Camcorders and Analog Video Capture sections of my website
that you can browse and see what is being used.... and lots of other pages
to check.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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I'm completely new to this. I want to transfer holiday videos taken on a

Sony Handycam to my hard disk via Movie Maker. My problem is I plug my
handicam playback through the Computer's 'line in' but the two devices are
not communicating.