Burn straight to DVD without tapes?

Hi all,
I have been "selected" (I'm the only one of the group with any experience) to record and burn dvd's of the sermons at our church. I have done this in the past by importing directly to imovie then editing and sending the final project to idvd to produce a final dvd. They don't need any real editing and of course are in a rush to get each disk. (like asap after the actual sermon!) They only need the raw footage on dvd because they are sending them off to another location to be edited. Thankfully, saving me much time.
I'm not sure of the model of camera, it hooks up to the Mac via a firewire cable. I'm using a Macbook for the importing/burning. I have iLIfe 09 (iDVD 7 and iMovie 8)
My question is: Is there a simple way to import directly to idvd or another Mac program and just burn what is recorded without the need for tapes?
I looked at the One Step DVD option in iDVD but from reading about it , it looks like it is just for importing from a tape. I need to import to the harddrive or directly to disk during a live sermon.
I hope this all make sense. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I can't spend much if anything on any new software as this is a volunteer project.
Thanks!

The quality isn't too critical, though the cleaner, the better.
I think that is what they plan to do right now (rip the footage they want from a finished disk)
I haven't seen the camera that they plan to use this year (I wont see it till next week and I'll have about 2 hours to get everything set up when I get there). I doubt it is a true digital camera. I think it is a Mini-DV tape camera.
All they need is the footage, it could be on a data disk instead of a finished video disk. I though about importing to iMovie then burning the .dv clips that iMovie makes to a data DVD via the finder, but a 1 1/2 hour service is over 25GB so that's out.
I may just have to import to iMovie then export an mp4 or something like that that will fit on a disk.
If it does happen to be a digital camera that I can copy footage from, would it be compressed enough to fit on a DVD-R? (average recording time is about 1.5 to 2 hours per clip.
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