UPDATE: i finally got the right combination of cords and software.

 i thought i was going to have a quicker way to load videos, but Digital Video (“DV”–it’s false advertising!) tapes still only connect via RCA jacks (the other cord only works for the truly DIGITAL pictures–not video) so i can’t load video from my laptop and something is wrong with my old Windows 98 that has the video card to convert analogue videos. i made the video, but Princess Sierra told me to take it down because it is too dumb without sound.