[G4] iMovie and iDVD

[Kunga]

He should be running Tiger 10.4.5 with the RAM maxed out to 2 GB and  
try to find iLife '05 in a store discounted since it's last year's  
model as iLife '06 has a broken iDVD taht doesn't work correctly.

Your Dad is completely out of touch with reality since his 10.1 OS X  
is not only unsupported any more, it is also DOG SLOW. His Mac will  
run MORE THAN TWICE AS FAST with Tiger in it. There is nothing that  
will work in OS X 10.1 that is current.

512 MB is not enough RAM for a modern Mac.
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On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:51 PM, B G wrote:

> That could be right, you do not say what speed the processor is but  
> I am guessing an 800 or a 1 gig.
>
> Processor RAM and video quality affect rendering time, which is  
> what takes the longest.
>
> The actual burn is not too bad I assume a 1 or 2x burner. If you  
> want to burn multiple copies do it right after the first burn.
>
> It will prompt you, you will save a lot of time
>
> Good luck
>
> BG
> On Feb 23, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> My Dad has a iMac G4 with 60GB HD and 512MB RAM. We have 1.5 hrs.  
>> video footage to make into a DVD, but neither of us has done this  
>> before. I checked with a friend about how much footage would  
>> import at one swoop, and he said that amount would be ok. We also  
>> consulted Robin Williams' book, Missing Manual and Mac OSX for  
>> dummies for directions.
>>
>> One other thing: Dad has OS10.1 and I haven't been able to get him  
>> to upgrade! Maybe some of this is due to that ... Also, all  
>> versions of iMovie and iDVD are from that era also - it is iDVD2 tho.
>>
>> We imported the footage into iMovie and exported as DVD. It has  
>> been six hours and it says 19 hours to go? Any ideas? Initially  
>> said it would be 300 minutes.
>>
>> We did a successful experiment with a 1-minute clip and took  
>> that .mov file into iDVD and successfully burned a disk which  
>> played on the DVD player. So it must be too much footage?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Anne Keller Smith
>> Down to Earth Web Design
>> mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net
>> http://www.downtoearthweb.com