Does anyone know of any good freeware that will convert a Quicktime movie into a DV stream? From the apple support page: "iMovie is designed to get all video clips by capturing them directly from a digital video (DV) device. If you want to use video from other sources they must first be converted into DV streams. With QuickTime Pro, you can convert a QuickTime movie into a DV stream." What's the point of having iMovie if you upgrade to QuickTime Pro?

Well, you could get Final Cut Express instead... p

"What's the point of having iMovie if you upgrade to QuickTime Pro?" Editing capabilities?

Nah. Final Cut Express - $299 QuicktimePro - $29.99 My dad has a lot of vacation footage he wants to put on DVD. I told him I might be able to do it with iMovie because I have a SuperDrive and I saw this commercial for macintosh where somebody did this. The commercial didn't show the guy buying Final Cut Express or QuicktimePro. My dad's camcorder only has RCA jacks, no firewire. He uses Windows and connected the camcorder to his PC using some Dazzle product and saved alot of the footage as mpeg. We put one of the mpeg's on a CD-R and I put it on my mac to see what I could do with it in iMovie. So if I get QuicktimePro I can convert the mpeg to DV stream, then import that using iMovie, then use iDVD to burn to DVD - is that right? P.S. What's with certain words in posts getting a green underline and an adserver hyperlink?

Yeah, that procedure should work fine once you have QT Pro. The words are probably because you're using a POS M$ browser with smart tags turned on, and the HTML code in the page headers here doesn't force them off by default. p