Dazzle Video Creator Platinum HD for Mac

I have just purchased Dazzle Video Creator Platinum HD after being advised to get it by a staff member at an Apple shop.  When it was delivered it states on the pack it is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.  I don't have parallels on my mac and was hoping I could load dazzle without purchasing parallels and windows.  I dont want to unpack Dazzle and try as I may not get a refund.   Can you advise if Dazzle is compatible with Mac OSX 10.6.3 and if not what I should do to be able to use Dazzle on my MAC?
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Well, your MacBook Pro should have iMovie already installed, and that along with an analog to digital convertor is all you really need.
If you get yourself a Digital8 camcorder (I have a Sony one) you can connect the "iLink port" to your MacBook Pro with a FireWire cable, and then iMove can connect to the camera and even control the tape playback/pause options.  I have done this myself a few times.  When I first started converting some old "out of print" VHS tapes to DVD for my wife's classes many years ago, I purchased the Pinnacle MovieBox DV which was my analog-to-digital convertor.  In fact, this old box still works today other than it only works in SD (no HD here).  The Movie Box DV that I have is hard to find now, and it is no longer officially supported, but they are very solidly built and seem to last forever if you can get one.  I had to go the route of the external hardware for convertign the old VHS tapes due their having MacroVision encoding on them, and the hardware I bought will ignore that.

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