Importing A MiniDV to A DVD

[5flipper1968]

I bought a Sony Handycam. It is a miniDV camcorder. It uses small cassettes.
I was told at Best Buy that I could create DVD's of my own movies on my
i-Mac G5 desktop. It appears to me that I can't do that. The SONY manual
says that it can't be done. The Apple Store representative at the Best Buy
insisted that it was easy to burn DVD's from the camcorder itself using a
firewire. The exact model is DCR-HC52/HC54. On page 48 ,the verbatim
notation says "You cannot install the supplied software Picture Motion
Browser", on a MacIntosh computer. Can I make DVD's from my Mini-DV
camera on my i-Mac G5 with maxxed out RAM and 10.5.2? I was also
told by someone that I would need third party software. My OS is Leopard.
Can someone please edify me?

 

[MarkMS]

I just did this a while back for a class.

Hook up the camera to the iMac via firewire and open up iMovie. From iMovie, you import the video, edit it and burn to DVD. I used Leopard with iLife '06, but it should be about the same with iLife '08 (iMovie '08 and etc.)

Here is a helpful page from Apple in case you need some additional info.

 

[MarkMS]

Sorry, double post.