The tape is being used as the storage media in place of using a hard drive as the storage media. If you had a large enough USB key, you could use that as the storage media, as an example... Mike On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote: > Norman wrote: > >> When I finish an edit in iMovie I export it to the camcorder >> mini dv tape. From that tape I can make VHS or DVD. > > Is this typical? I would have thought one would export iMovie > directly to iDVD. > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv