VHS plus CANOPUS ADVC300 to DVD without editing and hours of rendering....

I really need to capture video from my Canopus ADVC300 and save it in MPEG4 format so that I can create a DVD without wasting hours rendering the video. Currently I get a .MOV (i.e. quicktime) file and then iDVD spends hours rendering. My home DVD Recorder captures and writes DVD on the fly - isn't something like this available for the Mac? I am happy to save to HD then write the DVD but it's infeasible for me to capture (say) two hours of video which I don't even want to edit, only to have to wait hours and hours and hours for iDVD to render it before creating the DVD.
Hope I haven't been too unclear.

Hi!
i have an ADVC 300 which i bought from amazon, i need to convert my old analog video camera tapes into digital format in the PC , usuing the following :
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.007E.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.41f2
Serial Number (system): W89161YC71C
Hardware UUID: 7079659B-32F7-56F4-B0BD-7894E37684A6
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
when i click in ADVC Picture controller 300 it opens and when i click on PREVIEW i cant see anything , i tried opening final cut pro to capture the videos with no luck, i use a firewire from Belkin which is a 9 pin to 6 Pin (800/400)
I need help
thank you

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