Not entirely true.
Okay, here goes. iDVD is set to work with DVD burners that are on the
internal ATI bus. It won't run with burners hooked up to the Firewire
or USB bus.
In many cases, it will not install off of the OS-X install cds because
of this. If you do as Ward suggest, then you should be able to use it
(though you may have to go back and install iDVD from one of the
packages then update it to be current. Don't forget to get the firmwre
updates that let you use the new 4x DVDs in the drive.
So are you out of luck if you have to get an external drive? No. Toast
will burn the moves to DVD (once they are encoded in MPEG2 format).
Getting them onto DVD is not the problem, encoding them into MPEG2
format is. There are several ways to compress movies into MPEG2
(including using QuickTime).
The advantage of iDVD is that it gives you everything in one place, and
it gives you the "front menu".
Jerry
p.s I have heard there will soon be a retrofit kit for the TiBook so
that you can pop a DVD burner into it as well.
On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 08:52 PM, andrew arnold wrote:
> 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>.
>
>
>
>
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>.
