Raw video for logging purposes

Does anybody have a quick and easy way to deliver raw video to producers so they can log it?
I'm constantly creating dvd's for producers that have hours of footage on it... and it takes forever! I'm hoping there's a way to deliver it to them on line. The quality doesn't have to be great. Just good enough so they can see the timecode of soundbites and b-roll.
Thank you.

Hi -
Like Mr. Harbsmeier suggest above, I keep a cheap DVD recorder in my edit bay.
I can quickly drag the clips to the timeline in order, slap a timecode reader filter on them and then play the output out to my Panasonic DVD recorder - I don't care if it drops an occasional frame or so as this is only for viewing. And it will even record up to 6 hours on a single DVD in super-duper compressed mode, which is certainly good enough for the clients to view and select takes from.
This is the fastest way that I know of - make the DVD and FedEx or courier it off to the client.
Making a real DVD, or compressing for use on and uploading to the web will all take much more time, IMHO.
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    Would it work to connect the camera to my G4 via firewire, download the raw footage to my external drive connected to the G4, then move the external drive over to the MacBook, connect it to the MacBook via USB, then import the raw footage to iMovie for editing? I realize the copying over USB would be very slow. I assume I need some type of software for downloading the raw footage to the G4. Since iMovie won't run and the camera has no software, is there some type of utility or shareware that lets you capture raw footage?
    Is there a better way I can use my G4 to get raw footage from a firewire camera, and then on to my MacBook? Or will this work at all?
    I see that there are a few USB camcorders out there, but they seem to be expensive or don't receive very good reviews, so I'd like to go with the firewire Canon.
    Thanks very much for the help with this frustrating issue

    Well, never mind. I'm returning the MacBook and buying a previous generation MacBook Pro, which ends up being about $200 more.
    Solves my problem, but many folks can't afford the Pro. I'll be commenting at Apple customer feedback about the lack of firewire on the new MacBook.
    Thanks for reading the post.

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