Outputting video to Firewire

Okay guys, i have a sexeh little Powerbook 12" (recent 04) and i love it. After a little bonus, i went and bought a DVD+RW for my tv and scrapped my old VCR. Now, after having a little fiddle, it seems i can record from iLink (which i understand to be firewire 400).

So after a quick run to the shops, i connected my Firewire 4 to 6 cable up, but now im at a loss.

I'd love to be able to copy all my movies, music vids etc onto DVD and i cant really afford an external DVD+RW drive atm.

Any ideas on a app that can do the job. If it only takes a certain format, i'm sure i can convert the odd DIVx and XVID movies into mpeg or sommat.

Cheers guys!

DB

so you bought a dvd recorder, and are trying to record to the mac? please explain a little better what you are trying to do. in the long run, an external dvd burner would have been much better.

Yes a USB2 dvd-+rw would have been better, but that was not my intention. My original idea was to record CableTV/TV to DVD instead of VHS to save space.

Basically, the manual and box of the DVD+RW for my TV, state that it can record IN from the iLink connection. Idea being to hook up a DV-Camcorder and copy from the Camcorder, to DVD.

Simply, my question is, does anyone know of any software to output video from my Firewire port, so that i can input it onto my TV's DVD Recorder?

DB

So, If I am understanding this correctly, you want a program that when you play your video, outputs through firewire. Now I am not sure of you financial capabilities, or how advanced you want to get. If all you want to do is do that, maybe a little bit of editing or so, Final Cut Express will do the job($99), when you play it in the player it outputs all the video through the firewire, this is because it makes it easier to export to a tape. Now if you want to do HD stuff, you can Get Final Cut Pro HD at a little more then a thousand dollars more then express. Last but not least if you want to do advanced editing but you don't want the HD stuff Final Cut Pro will be good but it is (999$) So those are the options on what I use to put video out of the firewire port. I hope that helps.