[kensvideo]

After stuggling to make my first DVD, I'm stuck. I clicked "Stop capture" I waited. and waited. The video box went white but the "Stop capture" button stayed orange as if it wanted to be clicked again. Finally I clicked somewhere else on the window and now it all went grey and in the top I see "not responding." I use Windows Vista on an Acer Aspire laptop. There are 31 minutes left unused on the DVD. My cursor remains as an hour-glass.

Before I got to this point, there were several times when I'm sure "capture" was delayed by up to 7 seconds, causing me to miss the first part of some video clips. Wonder if I can improve that somehow.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[myguggi]

After stuggling to make my first DVD, I'm stuck. I clicked "Stop capture" I waited. and waited. The video box went white but the "Stop capture" button stayed orange as if it wanted to be clicked again. Finally I clicked somewhere else on the window and now it all went grey and in the top I see "not responding." I use Windows Vista on an Acer Aspire laptop. There are 31 minutes left unused on the DVD. My cursor remains as an hour-glass.

Before I got to this point, there were several times when I'm sure "capture" was delayed by up to 7 seconds, causing me to miss the first part of some video clips. Wonder if I can improve that somehow.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

You seem to be using Plug & Burn to capture and burn you video.
Perhaps after reading this post you will switch to the more reliable method of getting the video from your analog recorder to a DVD.