I have a rather slow Mac - G4/400 gigabit ethernet - and want to edit some video in iMovie into, say, a 90 minute program. I have enough RAM and HD space, so that's not the issue.

I want to use a PC to capture, convert and burn the DVD. Here's what I want to do:

Use MovieStar 4.5 (with the clips limited to 2 GB) to capture the DV from a Dazzle Hollywood Bridge

Send these clips to the Mac, perhaps by saving them to a firewire HD or somehow shoving the DV out the PC's firewire port for recapture in iMovie. Can I get iMovie to import these clips at all? On the Mac, QT Pro 6 won't play them, neither will Windows Media Player. QT and Media Player plays the clips fine on the Windows platform.

Edit the DV movie in iMovie, then spit it back to the PC for encoding into MPEG and burning.

I've been using my DV camcorder (Canon ZR-10) as a "bit bucket" to get the video from the PC to the Mac by recording it to tape and capturing it again, but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had to solve this same problem more elegantly.

TIA!