Anyone copy video cam data to DVD successfully?

I have about a million mini-DV tapes from my Sony Digital Handycam that I'm dying to backup on DVDs that can be viewed on our television. The tapes are 60 minutes long. Could anyone out there please give me step by step instructions on how I can get this done--someone that has actually done it successfully?

Seasons Greetings from the Yukon - If your tapes are under an hour in length and require no editing just hook your camera to your mac via firewire, open idvd, click on onestep dvd and follow instructions. Make sure you have lots of hard drive space available, probably double the amount you would need to save project, just to be on the safe side. Otherwise capture and edit them in imovie and send them to idvd for burning. It's actually pretty simple.
Ldawg

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