From: Steve Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:42:35 -0800 (PST) --- Will S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before I buy it, I need to know if it's the software I need. I'm really new at this and am on a budget. Probably over budget already even.
What software are you talking about? If your short on money I'd hold off on Panther for now. It's not going to improve nor make better nor easier the Video work your wanting to do. Having said that OWC (sponsor of XPFacto) has the fairly rare (until now) DVD version of Panther for $49.00 great buy.
> Let me know what OS version you are using and is it > a firewire setup or > what ? Also what kind of DVD player? I'll try look > up the info on > getting it to work. (I think I have notes on how I > did it !).
The machine I'm using for this project is a 266 G3 with a 533mHz G4 upgrade and 352 megs of RAM and a firewire card among others. Right now I'm running 10.2.8 but I may try going to Panther. The drive is a OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW Pioneer DVR-108 16X External. also attached to the computer via firewire is a 160 gig WD drive and a Pinnacle "Movie Box" interface for getting the video and audio signals into the computer. The computer itself also has the audio/video "personailty" card in it, but so far the video is jumpy when using BTV as the input program and those connections. The video and audio are fine with the Movie Box, but they aren't usable together.
> I've had great luck doing Video work on my Umax > machine. mpg1 & 2 , > .avi , VCD, SVCD, DVD and Divx all work well.
I've done VCDs for slide shows and a lot of duplication of 33s and 78s in the audio area, but this is my first effort in the DVD world. I have no experience with DVDs or DIVX.
> I have not done any > Video tape to DVD's yet. Takes a lot of disk space I > believe. The place > for all the answers is: > http://www.videohelp.com/ snips taken:
Cool. I'll check them out. And thanks for the heads up on searching their archives first. Wouldn't want to make anyone mad. ;-)
===== Steve Hardy
I mention www.videohelp.com
not only for the help and info. It is also a great source of info on free and cheap software and links to that software. For example iDVD costs money only runs on G4 CPU . Version 3 is limited to 1hr of video per DVD. iDVD4 has upped it to 2hours per CD. At videohelp.com you will learn of the great free app "Sizzle" which is the only replacement for iDVD that runs on G3 cpu and also runs on G4. Lets you decide how much Video to put on a DVD up to the limit of 6 hours per DVD ! Also works with mpeg streams without separating the audio and video streams unlike iDVD and Studio Pro @ around $300.00 or so. Lots of other free apps that really work like "ffmpegx" for encoding avi . mpeg, DivX and others to VCD, SVCD, DVD etc and converting from one format to another. Chances are there are solutions that cost little or nothing.
i see the info on using external DVD drives has already been provided. later Will S
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