I currently have a g4 400 and a pIII 800 laptop and a Canopus ADVC100.

I shoot footage on a high quality DVCAM camera and have some questions..is it reasonable for me to capture onto my mac with imovie/fcp and then transfer to the laptop to encode to mpeg2 and then back to the mac to burn to DVD with toast?

The reason i ask is that in imovie for example i cant seem to export a file format that the pc will happily accept without lots of converting to this and that...is there a way for me to export a format that i can put directly into TMPGEnc?

I considered buying an athlon to capture/convert/burn but i dont want to lose the super easy editing i get with my g4.

any help appreciated