Since we're on the subject... I am confused. I have a 450 G4 desktop and a recent 800 TiBook. I would like to buy a new Pioneer DVD burner for the desktop so that I can burn DVDs of iMovies... I have heard you need iDVD to burn these and that software only comes with Macs that have the superdrive pre-installed. Is this true? Am I unable to make my own DVDs without buying a whole new system????
> iMovie should be able to handle it. Just keep in mind that each minute > of raw-uncompressed digital video (with audio) will take about 250 - > 300 MB of hard drive space. > > Jerry > > > On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > >> On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Ann Richmond wrote: >> >>> Can you do a whole 2 hour vhs tape this way? Or are you limited by the >>> camera's storage? Does the resolution capability of the camera >>> determine >>> the quality of the data going to iMovie/DVD? I really am a greenie at >>> this >>> so any advice would be appreciated. >> >> I've never done a whole two-hour tape this way, but, if there's enough >> disk space available, it could probably be done. (What's the limit on >> iMovie input here? There's surely some HFS file size problem you'll >> eventually hit. Jerry?) >> >> Nothing need ever be stored on the camera, so the storage of the >> camera does not affect anything. You can store it on the camera, if >> you want, and I often do it this way so I don't have to lug the VCR >> down to the computer. >> >> The resolution seems to be as good as the VHS it started with. >> Remember that VHS resolution is pretty bad compared to digital video, >> so the results aren't nearly as good as the footage shot with the >> digital camera. You don't really realize how bad VHS is until you >> start editing it in a program like iMovie where you can mix real >> digital stuff with the VHS stuff. >> >> -- >> Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville >> Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> >> >> >> > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > Kind regards, Andy a0arno01 at athena.louisville.edu Remember the two most important things in life: 1. Don't tell everyone everything you know 2. The software box said, "Windows XP or better," so I bought a Macintosh. "Macintosh. We may not have done everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."-Douglas Adams The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
