Hola gurus, 

I want to transfer about 30 hours of home video to DVD, and edit it in the process. Nothing too fancy, add a few titles, clip out some extraneous video and tighten it up, then burn it to DVD for a Christmas gift.

I bought a Dazzle DVD Recorder on Amazon ($34.95 - woohoo!), and have an old Sharp Viewcam 8mm analog video camcorder as well as a nice little stack of 8mm videotapes from when the kids were small.  The Dazzle only came with the Pinnacle Instant DVD Recorder software - so I don't have the Pinnacle Studio.

I would imagine I have to copy the videotapes through the Dazzle to the hard disk of my PC.  This I have tried with one tape using Instant DVD Recorder. However, I only get the VIDEO_TS folder and don't really know where to go from there.  

What low co$t solution is there (I love free!)?  I've taken a quick look at just bringing the video into Windows Movie Maker directly (which appears to work), but don't know what settings to use or how I am going to get this stuff back to DVD when I'm done editing it - so I don't want to travel too far down that road if it is a dead end. 

Any and all help appreciated!

TIA
Peter