Using dvd as video storage

I have a dv camera that uses the mini cassetes which hold about 1 hour of video. I want to transfer the 1 hour of video straight to a dvd for storage. I use the onestep dvd button and everything works fine, but, after about 15 minutes of video the program stops and wants to burn on the dvd. What is happening? is the program not compressing the data for the dvd burn? The dvd will hold 4.7 GB of information. All I want to do is transfer directly from tape to disc for file storage. Any thoughts on why I'm having so much difficulty would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Fireguy
Have not tried this function but I can speculate.
a. Save Your original miniDV tapes - DVD disks are no good substitute.
b. The information on a 60 min miniDV tape is huge. When imported to
Your Mac (it will be compressed on Your hard disk) it will take about 13 Gb.
So there has to be a lot of coding to fit the material on a 4.7Gb disk and
to be able to play the DVD it has to be in mpeg2 coding (which also lowers
the quality)
My guess is that "onestep" has to make a lot of calculating and this needs
space on the hard disk to be done.
When I work in iMovie a 60 min project needs about 13Gb + 5 - 15 Gb for
editing. Then an additional 20Gb needs to be free for iDVD to work with.
I think that Your Mac has some cleaning to do after 15 min to get more
space to continue with.
Yours guessing Bengt W

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