Computer help

What Paul said. You should be able to plug the camera in to the PC, power it up in play mode and since the connection is USB, the computer ought to detect it, and if it doesn't have a driver for it, ask you for an installation disk. If you don't have the driver, go to the manufacturers (Sony) website and see if they have one you can download. That's step 1. Step 2 is that in order to get it to record to the hard drive, you'll need software to capture the video from the camera. On my PC it's in the video editing software that came with the camera. (If you're using XP, download the free editing software from Microsoft, it's should have this functionality). To get it to the hard drive I launch the software, hook up and the camera and power it up in play mode, then click on a button in the software to start the capture, then hit play on the camera. As the camera plays the video the PC writes it to the hard drive. When you're done you stop the camera and stop the capture, and from there, the software turns the video in to seperate clips from every time the stop/start button was hit when you recorded the video. You use the software editing to compile the clips in to a finished product, and when done editing, generate a finished movie as one file, which then can be sent back to the camera for storage on tape (digital video takes a lot of hard drive space when in it's native format). Hope that helps!