I have a panasonic vdr-m75 camcorder I purchased this month to take videos of our NEW daughter. It records on DVD-ram discs. I payed a bundle for it, but wanted to take nice videos of our new daughter to send to our relatives. Today I bought a HP Media Center PC. It has an E drive which has a lightscribe dvd +/- writer / cd writer and an F drive below it with a dvd rom writer. I was hoping to PUT in my camcorder 30 minute dvd-ram disc into the F drive and burn a DVD-R on the E drive of this HP 3800+ PC. I downloaded all the files from the camcorder and anything that came with the HP COMPUTER. So far no luck. Any ideas out there???You will need to check with the manuf. to see if that DVD burner supports DVDRam...
It is a different format.
Perhaps they have a firmware update for the drive that will enable support for DVDRam.

patio. Actually Bruce there are programs out there that will handle this conversion for you...i'm currently researching some freeware alternatives for you.

patio. Thanks - I have a load of egg on my face after spending too much of the family budget on this new computer only to be unable to do the one thing I bought it for. Naturally, the Best Buy salesman said that I bought the unit that can do this with my camcorder - but I guess they always say that. Appreciate all the help. I have to somehow learn how to do this stuff myself - and this is learning the hard way.What software for DVD came with the camera ? ?
Maybe it will handle those MOVIES properly so they can be burned...

patio.