[Solved] video from panasonic to iMovie and export ?

[geordiejohn]

hello i have got a Panasonic digital camcorder NV DS60 and i connected it to my Apple minimac 80gb 10.6.4 with snow leopard and it worked with iMovie,but when i try to export to a folder so i can put it to a dvd the export is grey because i cannot afford the full Ilife09.
Is there another free mac program i can use to somehow retrieve the video and put it to a folder in say mpeg form so i can get the video to a dvd ?
thank you.