thanks bud, What does the tape player have to have? I'm new to this what color would the line in be? Thanks again.

In my sound card, line-in is blue; I don't know if it's the same all over.
The tape recorder needs to have a headphones jack; you run a cable from the headphone jack to the line-in jack - you can pick one up in Radio Shack for a couple of bucks.

cervana, you do mean recorded on audio tape don't you? Not video tape as in VCR.

from an audio tape deck. thanks

I have a creative soundblaster card, I will look in the back of my computer to see what color it is. So all I do is play the tape deck and record on vegas 4 record button? Will I be able to use a tape player to record a wedding and then record that on the timeline in vegas 4? Thanks again.

"Will I be able to use a tape player to record a wedding and then record that on the timeline in vegas 4? . . yes, as above. Any synching needed? Thought about that, have you ? . . .C'mon guys . . ?

Grazie

If you're using the tape recorder for sound to go along with video, you'll have major syncing problems. My experience with tape recorders is that all run at slightly different speeds (and sometimes very different speeds); and quality of the tape is also an issue (i.e. an old worn out tape behaves differently than a new one).
I used to edit with Studio 8, and there syncing audio tape was a nightmare, because I had to keep cutting small pieces out of the video tthroughout the tape, which meant that the video had to freeze every so often - don't ask!
But in Vegas it's much easier to deal with - you do it by stretching or downsizing the audio - right click on tape recorded audio event; choose "change length, preserve pitch" and play with the length till it fits what you need.
You may have to cut the event into several pieces to get what you need exactly, but it's not a big deal.