Fastest way to import MiniDV to DVD while breaking into clips?

Hi,
I have just started using my iDVD 5 on a Mini Mac with 512MB. I simply want to have the video on the tape broken down into clips and burned to a DVD with minimum manual intervention, simple menus (clip thumbnails), and fastest results. I had a Sony Vaio before and it was very simple and quick to so so. My first attempt took over 6 hours. I did not want to use oneclick DVD because it does not break the video into clips. I used magic iMovie, and selected simple menues, but "burning" just took for ever. My questions are:
1. Is DVD 6 faster than DVD 5?
2. Can I perform a "oneclick DVD" which also breaks the video to clips?
3. Is there a way to speed up the burn? Menu rendering took forever, are there simple menus which take less time. Video decoding took forever, can I download the video in another format (Mpeg4, etc.) which makes decoding shorter? Any other ideas?
4. What I am trying to do is simply have copies of all my tapes onto DVD's, but at the same time break down the video so that I can combine pieces from different tapes to make nice movies/DVD's. Am I using the right tools?
Thanks for your help.
Maher
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Welcome to the discussions...
Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert with the iLife apps (or any any app really!).
1) Don't know. But see point four.
2) Not that I know of.
3) Not really. You want to stay in DV for as long as possible. Rendering out to DVD for delivery of content only. If you choose any other format other than DV you actually increase the amount of work since the material needs to be in the DV format to begin with.
4) It is not a good idea to "archive" footage for later editing onto a DVD. As you have discovered, creating a DVD means compressing, thereby loosing information. Tape is the best way to save DV info. You could import the clips you want, create a movie of just those clips and send it back to tape for archiving.
In essence, you only want to create a DVD from DV files after the files have been edited to your liking. You don't won't, or rather shouldn't, create a DVD via iDVD of files to go back and later edit. In terms of media management (which really seems to be what you are looking for) FCE will offer better ways to organize clips while FCP will not only offer better ways to organize clips but give you the ability to capture only the clips you want by marking in & out points and doing a batch capture.
Rendering is processor intensive so the best way to speed up rendering is to buy a faster computer! 512MB of RAM is actually a bit on the low side for a Mac and editing. 1GB would serve you better but not have a significant impact on rendering times. LaCie does make a device that offers near real-time rendering however iDVD will not work with pre-rendered files.
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10498
Mike

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