Daily Digital Video School Announcements- Question!

Okay. At the moment, out media class is producing our daily announcements via video mixer and vcr. Until recently we've discovered that we have the equipment to broadcast the announcements digitally from a computer. So the question is, what do we need to use to connect our video to our computer? We would still like to use the mixer. It has a DV output. It is the MX-Pro DV 4. However, we would like to send the video/audio to the computer from the cable that is currently running to the VCR. So what do we need to convert a regular cable to the computer?

Sorry. We want to simoultaneously send it to the vcr and the computer. We tried using the DV connection on the mixer but it didn't work with iMovie. We contacted the mixer company and they said it is only configured to work with some random version of Final Cut Pro and we don't have it nor are we getting it. We have the splitters for the cable and the cables, we just don't know how to connect the cable to the computer. What we are really looking for is almost recommendations for products. I guess. Anything. Anything Apple carries?

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