Getting video from DVD

I have used a VCR Player/DVD recorder to transfer files from old family VHS tapes to DVD. After finalizing these DVD-R disks, I wanted to take them to my Mac and further edit them with iMovie or iDVD, however, the Mac will only play them with DVD Player. It will not recognize nor accept the files into either program. My local Mac dealer told me to purchase Roxio’s Toast 6 with JAM and said that it would be able to open and convert these images to a format which the Mac could use. NOT! Toast says “unable to recognize the format” or I get a system 50 error. How do I get these old video to my Mac in order to edit them and save that to DVD?
Bruce Loughridge
[email protected]
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5) 06 iLife

Hi bwl,
get for 20$ the Apple mpeg2 plugin
and for free the tool Streamclip for converting mp1/2/4, divx, avi, vob...
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
but, as catspaw mentioned: quality is MUCH better, if you record your VHS onto miniDV tape and proceed as usual....

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