Create a disc of high school football game

Hello,
I am a high school football coach. We just a new camera. It is a Panasonic HDC. I had my film guy film the Varsity game tonight and all I want to do is take the video from the camera and make it right into a DVD. I do not want to edit it or play with it or anything like that. I also want it to be really fast. I would love to get back to the office, plug it, and let it do its thing. Please help!! Thanks.

Welcome to the forums.
Creating a DVD can be smooth, but it's rarely fast (depends for one on how fast your Mac is). Here's a video tutorial on using iDVD's One Step capability: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd-onestep
John

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Look at Flip4Mac. The free version should allow you to view the wmv file. This paid versions should allow you to convert it. You can try before you buy to make sure it works. It should work with Compressor.
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Probably someone has - but they are not likely to be on this forum
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I've been converting footage from VHS onto a DVD, then ripping/converting it using MactheRipper and MPEG software.
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Lucian hidenori wrote:
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