Writing a video DVD
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From: Phil Taylor on 6 Apr 2010 13:05 In article <820h8iFq7lU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-06 11:32:48 +0100, Phil Taylor said: > > > iDVD comes with the OS. There is also an app named "iDVD getting > > It comes with new Macs (and copies of iLife :-) not the OS. I suppose > there's some cost incurred on licensing the right variety of MPEG 2 > encoder which is why there are no - or very few - free encoding apps. Ah, OK. It must have come with my iMac, and still be there despite having two major system updates since then:-) Phil Taylor
From: Rowland McDonnell on 6 Apr 2010 16:38 Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > > > > The obvious candidates are iDVD (possibly with help from iMovie), DVD > > > Studio Pro (part of Final Cut Studio) and recent versions of Toast > > > Titanium (at least version 8 and later). > > > > Righto - so there's no straightforward way to write a video DVD without > > buying some commercial software? (which makes no sense for me as far as > > I can tell.) > > iDVD comes with the OS. There is also an app named "iDVD getting > started" which lives in /Library/Documentation/Applications/iDVD which > will tell you what to do. Goodgood. I'd vaguely looked at iDVD, but the help I'd come across seemed to be only aimed at giving the user the steps to follow to turn a home movie from a video camera into a video DVD, and that's not the job in hand. (odd - that documentation folder contains only a handful of `Acknowledgements' textish files, and that one application) > It's a bit of a long-winded process, as you > have to first import your movie into iMovie, then export it from there > to iDVD. Ah - righto. I think that'll do the job. Long-winded's okay, just so long as I can figure out what to do. This is just a one-off for my mother-in-law. Ta, Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 6 Apr 2010 16:38
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-06 11:32:48 +0100, Phil Taylor said: > > > iDVD comes with the OS. There is also an app named "iDVD getting > > It comes with new Macs (and copies of iLife :-) not the OS. I suppose > there's some cost incurred on licensing the right variety of MPEG 2 > encoder which is why there are no - or very few - free encoding apps. Could be - but VLC (freeware) can handle that task, surely? (can it encoded MPEG2? I'm assuming so, given that it can decode it.) It's what's used to do the job that `Fairmount' (a propaganda name if ever there was one) does, which tends to imply to me that you could easily use its abilities for `whatever'. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |