Howdy! Yes, as a Mac owner I too have encountered a fair amount of bias in the Mac forums. Maybe it's karma paying me back for when Amiga was soo cool back in the day and we could look down with disdain upon the DOS boxes ;-)
Anyhow, you'll first need some hardware to get analog video into the digital realm. Lots of cheap camcorders nowadays have an analog input feature. Your camera's manual will explain how to do this. Then you just hook the camera up to the Mac's firewire port and import into iMovie. If you're a posh mac user you could use Final Cut, but I'm not so I'm stuck with iMovie, the one which came with OSX 10.3. When you upgrade to 10.4 by buying the DVD (versus getting it with a new Mac) you don't get iMovie for free anymore, you have to buy it separate. The downside of this is that 10.3 iMovie doesn't natively handle widescreen video correctly (as from my Panasonic GS400 camcorder).
If you don't have any hardware, you could just buy yourself a Dazzle DV bridge, which has all sorts of inputs on it. It also comes with software.
So to sum up, you need some sort of interface hardware to get the analog video into digital, such as a camcorder with this function or a Dazzle DV bridge or a Pinnacle video capture card, and then iMovie which comes with the Mac, or other more advanced software.
