Thanks for taking the time to reply....my camcorder is a canon V400E embarrassingly i have no idea whether its analogue or digital, i think digital?? the dvd recorded would have been a format dvd to be played in a dvd player, my friend did it on just a home dvd recorder.

when i put it in the mac, it shows folders but none of them will open, it says this cannot be read etc


ill try the media coder programme and see if that works, if not can i get back to you, to see if i can work round it better in the future? can you reccommend a good camera that bypasses this proceedure like phone cameras do? im gonna get final cut pro, to learn how to do editing etc and add effects would any file be compatable for this do you know??

Thanks very much for your help , im very grateful!

Delia.