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I would recommend doing that with Roxio 7.5 or 8s' built-in dedicated music program : "Audio Central" I think its called There is a small freeware program called Audacity : with it and the appopriate cable connected to your PCs sound cards (line in) from the audio cassete players output, you can get the music from your audio cassetes to the PC as wave file or even mp3 If your video8 tapes are really valuable you could record them to DV tape with a miniDV camcorder with analogue in then later transfer them to PC as you would a "normal" digital tape I must say they are getting scarce but just worth mentioning. Some of these camcorders have a feature called pass thru which can also enable you connect a VCR to it on one end and out to PC on the other. With video 8 in particular, there may be some Sony Digital8™ camcorders with DV output ( digital to PC) which can play video 8 and convert them in-camera to digital for transfer to the PC. Some TV cards can do the same job but will require you to open the PC up as they mainly tend to be PCI cards There are freeware, shareware, paid for ( and P2P : Im not endorsing that ) utilities which can help convert your captured video to mp4 xvid codecs on your PC you may not need to buy these. Studio will probably get you to buy an add on pack : If you have the divx. These will allow you get the video to the HDD and convert them to mpeg4.

There is a Pinnacle product Studio 10 with hardware this which is similar but more featured then the first one. You will need to get your video footage from camcorder or VHS to the PC with something like this While Im sure software like Roxio 8 could help to automate some of these steps ( esp audio) a few basics are required What you are proposing to do is in effect digtising all your video and audio media