on 03/01/04 03:31, supershanefx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also).
In my somewhat limited knowledge in this, you will need a DV bridge to connect your VCR to your Titanium because as far as I know, there are no VCR with FireWire output. Then, you will have to use something like iMovie to put the raw footage coming from the VCR and finally, iDVD to create a professionally looking DVD. I'm not sure if Toast can do that or not. Once you mastered your DVD, I'm pretty sure you can make copies using Toast, but I'm not sure you can author DVD with it.
Toast 6 supposedly has some DVD authoring features in it, I wouldn't know as I'm still on version 5 which is good enough for me.
I bought a used Digital 8 camcorder as my DV bridge, it doubles as a D-8 VCR when I want to record something new. iMovie is a decent if limited package for editing your movies and iDVD will author some pretty fancy DVDs for you. iDVD prefers to make hour long DVDs but can be convinced to make 90 minute ones at lower quality, but that'd still be higher quality than your VHS source, so don't worry about the quality issue when making DVDs from your tapes. The problem with this solution is that iDVD won't run on a machine that doesn't have an internal DVD drive from Apple (or an OEM Pioneer or whatever OEM Apple's using now) that looks like an Apple drive to iDVD. What that means to you as a pb user is your SOL with your TiBook unless you have one with a superdrive in it. And before you ask, there's no good reason for Apple to require an internal drive other than getting you to buy a new computer equipped with one.
I also bought the ADS USB instant DVD for Macintosh product. It has an external hardware MPEG-1 and 2 encoder that feeds the encoded MPG via USB. I get very nice results on my TiBook with this product and they include a DVD authoring tool. It isn't in the same league as iDVD but makes acceptable DVDs, if you download the latest version of the software directly from the Japanese site of the software company as the included 1.03 version that ADS packages is very limited. You can see my comments and other peoples at the xlr8yourmac site, direct URL to review: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/Pixela_PixeDV_CaptyDVD.html
Brian
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