[MacDV] Best way of saving large quantity of interviews

[Susan Weiss]

I am working with a teacher who has a project to interview with a 
video of each interview for 400 children. The interviews are about 15 
-25 minutes each.  The only editing is just to make sure the 
beginning says the child name.  We are using a Sony camcorder with 
MiniDV.   At the present time, we are making DVD's by combining at 
least 12 interviews on one DVD by using a simple DVD recorder/burner. 
We never save anything to a hard drive.
This is time consuming since you have to spend the time to send it 
the DVD recorder.
I am looking for a better solution.
option #1: So far, it was suggested that we purchase a camcorder that 
will make mini DVD automatically.   For each student there will be a 
mini DVD.   No one has to spend the time switching the tape to a DVD. 
The disadvantage is that nothing can be edited and there has to be 
400 mini dvds which will have to be filed for each child.

option #2:  Buy a camcorder which has an internal hard drive, edit it 
on the camcorder and then send to a dvd.  This eleminates the wait 
between the interviews and hopefully will allow chapters after each 
interview.

Otion #3 continue what we are doing and paying someone to edit and switch.


Does anyone have any thoughts on a better way of organizing all these 
interviews in a timely manner.   If we can have to pay for someone to 
switch the interviews we have the money to buy the camcorder for 
either option #1 or #2.

Susan Weiss