Dreaded HDD Camcorder (Sony) and iMovie

I've read around the subject here and there is a great deal of discussion. I really need a work-around though. I have stupidly bought a Sony HDD Camcorder and ALL I WANT TO DO is produce a DVD so that the family can see it on the TV - that's all - no editing, no funny business - straight from camcorder to DVD!
I have iMovie 06 and 04 at my disposal - the sony produces MPEG 2s I think.
Any suggestions - I am happy to look at other software too.
Many thanks,
AT

Firstly, there is a noticeably pause between clips of the video which spoils the viewing process
So the camcorder gives you several files, right? You can use apps like MPEG Streamclip to join several MPEG clips together.
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
But remember that MPEG is not designed to be edited so the seams may not always be perfect!
As yet, I have not translated to .dv format
You can use Toast or MPEG Streamclip for that. But that degrades quality so I'd avoid that, unless the content needs major editing.
the quality is not so good
Did you set Toast NOT to re-encode the material? Then there should be no quality degradation whatsoever!!
Is the material compatible with the video-DVD spec (48kHz audio, <10036 kb/s =9.8 Mb/s, usually MPEG2 and PAL/NTSC 720x576/480 although also MPEG1 and other resolutions are allowed):
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4

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