DV camera signal direct to DVD?

I would like to burn video in real time, directly from my DV camera to a DVD. I can't seem to do this in iMovie or iDVD.
iMovie seems to want to save the video to the hard drive, but not to a DVD. It then takes 15 minutes and several steps to get the video to DVD.
iDVD will only take video from a tape inserted in the camcorder - it won't just take the camcorder signal and burn directly to DVD.
Hopefully I'm just missing something. If not, anyone have any suggestions?
I'm using a Cannon video camera and firewire connection to my MacBookPro.
Thanks

iDVD will only take video from a tape inserted in the camcorder - it won't just take the camcorder signal and burn directly to DVD.
Try this instead of starting a new project use a QT movie / folder saved to your desktop and then follow these 2 steps below:
Click Here
Btw .... the only way i know of making a dvd in real time is to use a dvd player/recorder with digital FW input. Connect your minidv camcorder/camera via i.Link (4 pin to 4 pin) and record directly to DVD-R like this:
Click Here:
It's best not to have any time code breaks whatsoever within your movie when using iDvd'08.
However, the nice thing about the second approach is that my own Dvd Recorder will record just about any dv or analog source and it could care less about time code breaks. It records the Dvd every time regardless of time codes.
A third option I should mention is using Toast which also allows burning directly to Dvd-R (although not quite as fast as the second option I listed above).
And lastly, I've burned directly to Dvd-R via i.Link on our PC also (however it takes twice as long as our mac/s even though its clock speed is nearly twice as fast and is an intel dual core cpu).
Hope one of these approaches works for you also. It does for me. Good luck!
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