How to upload video film from a camcorder to a disk?

If the camcorder is miniDV tape, only firewire will work. Firewire, IEEE1394 and i.Link are all the same thing. Use the DV port on the camera, a firewire cable (most likely 4-pin to 6-pin) and the firewire port on your computer. USB will not work.If the camcorder is hard drive or flash memory based, it will likely use a USB cable. You may need to install drivers (from jvc.com). Some hard drive or flash memory based JVC cameras have firewire too (in the docking station).If the camcorder is DVD based, put the DVD in the drawer loading optical DVD drive of your computer. Do not put a minidisc in a slot loading drive - ever. You will need to rip the minidisc DVD with something like HandBrake. You may also need ISOBuster is your computer's DVD drive cannot read the mini disc.Then, throw the camcorder away and replace it with a miniDV tape based or hard drive based or flash memory based camcorder - video quality from DVD based camcorders is bad, especially for editing. They compress too much. These DVD based camcorders should not be on the market. The manufacturers should recall them and you should get your money back.Since you did not tell us what computer you use: Windows has MovieMaker. Macintosh has iMovie. After editing, Windows burns DVDs using WinDVD. Macintosh uses iDVD. Burning video to a CD is not a good idea - they do not hold enough data. CDs can hold up to 800 meg. Single layer DVDs hold 4.7 gig and double layer DVDs hold 8.5 gig. If you want to play this video on a normal DVD player, yuo need to burn out to DVD files (.VOB) and the DVD burning program will take care of that for you.