I have already provided an answer to this question elsewhere, but another copy never hurts... Transferring video to DVDs requires special hardware and software: - If the video source is a digital camcorder, you will need an IEEE 1394 (Firewire) interface. - If the video source is analog, you will need an analog video input card, capable of recording composite or s-video, as required. You will also need a two-channel audio card to record audio. - Software that can be used to capture the video and audio, edit it, and author DVDs. Most computers include an audio card of some kind, though the quality varies from acceptable to terrible. I use a two-channel semi-professional audio card (M-Audio Audiophile 2496), which is superior to the audio cards usually sold in computers. Some computers have video recording capabilities built in, but many of these are inadequate. I use a Pinnacle AV/DV video card that handles both composite and s-video, as well as providing a Firewire interface for digital video. Digital cameras send both the audio and video data over the Firewire interface. The Pinnacle card does not provide support for analog audio, but that is handled by my M-Audio card. Pinnacle makes several different video cards, some of which include audio. The Pinnacle cards are not professional, but work quite well for their price. The Pinnacle AV/DV hardware came with Pinnacle Studio; the current release is version 10, which requires Windows XP. I use Studio version 9, as I run Windows 2000 Professional on my home computers. Studio can record video and audio, incorporates an NLE (non-linear editor) for audio and video editing, provides basic DVD authoring tools, and supports several output formats, including DVD and video tape. The Studio software sells for about US$100 by itself; the AV/DV package is more expensive, because it includes the video card. There are several similar software products on the market, such as Adobe Premiere Elements, which also does a fine job. You must ensure that the software you use for authoring the DVD can directly support your video hardware or can import the video files created by the recording software. For example, Premiere does not support my Pinnacle video card, but can import any AVI and MPEG files created by Studio. You also need a powerful system on which to work. Video editors are processor intensive and require as much memory and disk space as you can provide. I use a dedicated 200GB hard drive for my video projects. Since each project can easily require 25 to 50GB to record and render the video, a large disk, regularly defragmented, is essential. You should have at least 512MB of memory and a Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz or better, otherwise the rendering process can move at a glacial pace. Do not use the computer for any other activities while recording, editing, rendering, and burning DVDs, because of the significant system demands of these operations.

Just get a video converter (BestBuy, CircuitCity, eBay, & Amazon all have them), that takes an analog signal (RCA/phono) and turns it into a digital movie file such as an mpeg, avi, etc. You just get one of these converters, plug in your VCR to it, and let the software turn your tapes into movie files. After that is finnished, you take the files, and add them to a DVD authoring project in whatever program you use to make your own DVDS, burn it, and you're done.