Ah, right. I understand the problem better now. When you've edited the movie, does it end up as an .avi file? If 'yes', I'd just use Windows Explorer to copy it across to DVD. Your problem, though, will be that .avi consumes HUUUUGE amounts of space, so you'll get very little footage per DVD. It really would be better to edit/author your footage as your final, finished DVD before wiping the original tape: archiving the raw/edited footage to DVD will be a pain and consume lots of DVDs. The only 'problem' then is in editing the authored DVD file - it all starts to get a bit messy.

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