No VIdeo detection using VIDEO INPUT 2" with SONY VAIO and Sony vi

  I have a 1999 SOny analog Hi-8 tape video camera. I am trying to get the
video into the movie maker but it says it doesn't recognize any video source.
I plug the yellow plug from the camera to the yellow plug in the front bottom
of the SONY VAIO, and do the same for the audio. I am using RCA plugs
I am completely stupid with all this. I am 64 and don't speak your language.
Can somebody tell me what to do? I have about 50 of these 8mm tapes of my
children that I want to put ov DVD and bought this exspensive SONY computer
just for that reason. I was told it was easy to put analog tape movies into
this computer and then make DVD. So far, I can't even get the camera hooked
in right. Will some young person help me.

 Does your computer also have Y, R&W RCA connectors on the Back?  If so try
them.

  No.  The only inputs for the yellow and white RCA jacks are in the front.
What are they for? I spent about another hour trying to get anything to play
in the computer from my camcorder. Are these "vidoe imputs" just for looks?

"JW" wrote:

 The user's manual for your PC or it's built in Help may help in finding out
what applications will work with the front connections.  Also the
application you are trying may have setup options that allow the input to
come from multiple sources and you may have to tell the application that you
want to use the front jacks as input and not already loaded files on your
HDD.

 JW. Thankyou for the advice, but HOW do I do this. How to I tell the
applications that I want to use the front jacks. The HOW is the hard part.

"JW" wrote: