My mom is going to be returning her MiniDV camera this weekend and getting another one because the TDK tapes she used gunked up the heads. She doesn't want to put these crappy tapes in her new camera so I told her we can use my FireWire equipped laptop as an intermediary to do a lossless transfer of the video.

The problem is I have no idea how to do this. I was hoping to use the bundled Windows Movie Maker in XP. The "Record" feature appears to be what I need to do but it has various quality options so I'm guessing that it's going to recompress the video into some .wmv format. That is definitely not what I want.

I thought this process would be simple. Can someone help me? Thanks.

-Dylan