anyone recommend a good video editor (freeware) that can d/l from camcorder and also convert some vid into stills. thanks

I just used AVIedit. Its small, but not posh. So fiddle around with it a little. If you have any questions, there is a community that supports it.

for most simple jobs, the movie maker that comes with XP does what you want.

//krunk (^_^x)