Rick, I don’t know i

 Rick, I don’t know if this would fall into the catagory of best way to do this. I have an older digital 8 sony handicam that can convert analog to digital. I record by hooking rca output from the vcr to the digital 8 camera and play the tapes to download from the camera to my nle software on my computer and choose the output format there, DVD etc. Thats my .02.