[MacDV] Burn DVDs using iMovie3, 2 Macs, and Panther (help?)

[Mark M. Florida]

First, what kind of computer has the DVD burner?  Sounds like a Beige 
G3 if it supports that drive internally but doesn't have FireWire (or a 
PCI PowerMac with an IDE card)...

If that's the case, you'll need a software tool to create a DVD disc 
image on your Blue G3 -- Toast 6 would be the easiest choice, and not 
terribly expensive.  Since you're using iMovie 3, you could just drag 
the referencing movie at the root level of your iMovie project folder 
onto Toast 6 to create the DVD disc image.  After you have the disc 
image, you can copy it to the other computer via ethernet, and burn it 
with the DVD burner -- or you can transplant the DVD burner into the 
Blue G3 and avoid the network transfer (come to think of it, I don't 
even know if Toast 6's DVD features will allow you to save a disc 
image, so you may have to move the drive anyway).  There are other 
freeware "solutions" out there, but they can be terribly complicated 
and infuriating to use.  And iDVD won't work since you don't have a G4. 
(But would it work if you also upgraded your Blue G3 with a G4 ZIF 
processor upgrade?)

Good luck!

- Mark

On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:20 PM, Bruce Williams wrote:

> I have completed editing a movie in iMovie3 on a B/W g3 400
> sytem running Panther. It plays out fine to the DV cam
> through firewire.
>
> We need to burn this to DVD-r. At the moment, Toast Titanium
> 5 is loaded in a different Mac running OS 9.2.2. It has the
> superdrive (a Pioneer DVR-A03 DVD) but no firewire.
>
> What choices do I have to accomplish the job? The systems
> are linked via ethernet, if that helps me and I don't mind
> moving hardware, I just hate to go down the wrong path.
>
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
>
>
>
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