[MacDV] New to the list

[Brett Koonce]

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 06:10  AM, michael Vogt wrote:

> Hi all
> I'm new to your list but I'm on a few of of the Lowend list so some 
> may know me .
> But I'm a farmer in Kansas.

Welcome.   My family has cows in Missouri.

> I had a 7500 that I had been doing some iMovie stuff with  I sold it 
> and got G4 sawtooth AGP then I bought a DVD-R drive and I have a Sony 
> Digital 8 Camcorder , what want to do is move my Home movies to DVDs 
> with out any editing. Is there a  simple way to do that. or do you 
> need to go through iMovie.

You'll need to capture the movies and get them into the computer 
somehow if you want to use iDVD (are you?).  iMovie does this well, 
plus you get the added benefit of being able to edit things for free.  
What you need to figure out is if your Sony Camcorder supports 
pass-though video conversion (just play the movies into the computer) 
or whether you will have to record each movie to DV tape and then 
recapture it on the computer (time-consuming).

-Brett Koonce
www.universe42.com