Edit a DVD transfered from a HDD recorder

A friend of mine was on TV last week and I recorded the program on my Sony Hard Disk Recorder, she was on a 2 1/2 hour program for about 10 minutes. I transfered the recording from the Hard Disk to a DVD on the same device, I would now like to import that onto my Mac in order to edit and just take the 10 minutes she appeared to put on another DVD for her. When I insert the DVD with the content on, my iMac says I have inserted a blank disc when I know it has the content on, as I have watched the same DVD on my DVD player. Is it possible to do what I am asking?

It's definitely possible, but you're roughly in the same position as a user whose camcorder has a HD or a DVD... I'm guessing that your DVD isn't "finished" in the sense that your recorder could continue to add content to that disk. A couple options:
-try to transfer directly from the HD version of the file (iLink/Firewire? copy as a data file?). If it's possible, this will likely yield the highest quality. Do you know what format the HDD recorder is using for the files?
- figure out what it takes to finish a DVD with your Sony recorder so that the DVD can play on any player. This gives you .VOB files that you can convert to mpeg-2 content that you can uncompress into DV Stream format (.dv) and edit.
- play the video on the HDD recorder and send the output signal (I assume it's analog) through a digital converter to your Mac. It will come in as an editable .dv file.
John

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