Look at Pinnacle Systems.  They offer the hardware and software needed 
to capture video and audio directly from ANY source so long as it has 
either a component video. S-video, firewire, etc hookups. 

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Home/

I've used this on several projects and the combined software / hardware 
is hard to beat.  It is also MUCH cheaper than Adobe Premier Pro and for 
what you want to do, would be excellent.

Paul Fritz

Britton, Kathleen wrote:
> Please post replies to the list, as we are also looking into this.
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> On the same note, does anyone know anything about a "TV card" that 
> would allow the connection of VCR and computer to do the copying?
>  
> Many thanks -
> Kathleen
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> We are in the research phase of purchasing software that will enable 
> us to transfer our oral histories that are presently on audio and 
> video cassettes to DVD.  Adobe Pro and Adobe Edition have both been 
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