What Super Drive should I get for ILife 06?

Hi, I have a G5 2.5 Power Mac 7.3. I bought ILife 06 and am trying to edit DVD's I copied from tape to make another DVD. iDVD says my Mac does not have a supported superdrive. What should I get to update this new to me computer? Everything says this is sooo easy. I am not finding it easy in the least. Thought this new computer would cover all the bases. How do you plug in video to this computer? I miss my old G3 that finally died by my hand trying to upgrade it....
Sniff..... Janice
PowerPC G5 (3.0), CPU 2.5 GHz, PowerMac 7,3, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 DDL, Tower Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1 GB memory, boot ROM version 5.1.8f7, Two Sony DVD RW DW=U21A (REV. AADB), Firmware AADB

Hi, I have a G5 2.5 Power Mac 7.3. I bought ILife 06
and am trying to edit DVD's I copied from tape to
make another DVD.
Copying home-made DVDs is easy (Disk Utility) but editing is more difficult.
iDVD says my Mac does not have a
supported superdrive.
Your drive shows as supported, so it may be some iDVD problem. Does the drive burn with other applications. e.g. Disk Utility, iTunes, or Finder.
How do you plug in video to this computer?
You need a video input device. It could be a PCI card (depending on your computers bus), a FireWire device, or an USB device. If you have a digital camcorder it can be used to input video via FireWire. If you have to buy something, look here: <http://www.elgato.com>

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