
A diagram printed on the product's box depicts where all the cables go, and the quick-start guide shows you how everything works. Plug one end of this the cable into the camcorder, the other end into the DVC 80's audio-in and video-in ports, and you're ready to rumble. To transfer video and audio from your camcorder to the DVC 80, you'll have to use the RCA cable that came with your camcorder or buy one. The DVC 80 comes with left and right audio-in ports, a video-in port, and an S-Video port, but it doesn't include cables. The software's decent documentation, in HTML format, loads automatically with the application. Installation of MGI's VideoWave 4 SE is automatic and painless.

Simply connect the DVC 80 to your computer's USB port, insert the CD-ROM into the drive, and tell Windows that the driver is on the CD. The DVC 80's system requirements are pretty basic: a 300MHz Pentium II, 64MB of RAM, a powered USB port, and Windows Me or 98. The Digital Video Creator 80, big brother to Dazzle's more restrictive DVC 50, is an easy-to-use digital video importer suited to the casual user, and it delivers higher quality for $20 more than the DVC 50. The Digital Video Creator 80, big brother to Dazzle's more restrictive, is an easy-to-use digital video importer suited to the casual user, and it delivers higher quality for $20 more than the DVC 50.
