Hopefully your camera and computer have fire wire. USB is slow and quality is not good.First plug fire wire to computer and then to camera. Turn on camera and it should be automatically picked upped by computer.A window will pop up and give you a list of options of programs to use.Media player should be one of them.You can then record on to your computer and edit the video. Later on you can burn it to a DVD if you have a burner in your computer.