<p>My daughter is interested in making her own films.</p>
<p>I also foresee the need to make audition DVDs for my dancer daughter.</p>
<p>If I want to do this using a camcorder and iMovie, what do I need, for example, how much disk space, how many Firewire connectors, a DVD burner and what else?</p>
<p>It depends on so many factors. I have used imovie since it first arrived and have gone through the many upgrades. For a minimum, 2 firewire connectors if you have a external firewire hard-disk to store your “movies” and for back-up. You need your firewire cable to connect between camera and computer. And you should have decent disk space, as much as you can afford. You can use the built in burner. For space, let’s say I have about a 10 minute film and it takes up less than 2 gb of storage after it has been exported into a file and out of imovie. When you are working with clips in imovie, you need more space; you will edit so much out and the files in the end shrink. Anyway, that is my two cents. It is so much fun if you enjoy that sort of thing! I certainly do.</p>