DVR to Imovie to edit to burn DVD

Goal - To post my 2-5 minute TV segments on my website. I need to edit an hour show to my 2-5 minutes, burn DVD's and convert to post on website. I thought I would record a DVD (need to get a DVD recorder) from the DVR, convert it to an MP4 and download it into Imovie to edit but an hour show takes days to download.
There must be a quicker way. Can I download directly from the DVR into Imovie? Use my DAC to convert or buy Quicktime Pro to edit and burn an edited DVD?
I don't mind spending a little money for ease as I am technically challenged. I would greatly appreciate anyone's advise.
Thank you.
I have:
Dish DVR 722
Dac Converter
MAC OS X 10.5.3
Imovie 5. and 8.

I'm not familiar with DVRs, but the well reputated Streamclip offers support for downloading via firewire from some DVR-like devices...
for converting the files, you probably need the 20$ Apple mpeg2-playback-plug-in....
hope, that is a little help...

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