[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3// Toast Lite 5.2 Howto

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:10 AM, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:

> Yes, the idea would be to produce a consumer DVD drive - compatible
> DVD.

OK.

> As far as I know, I'm stuck on this one - I have an external LaCie 
> DVD-R
> drive (it's the Pioneer 105 on the inside) and no software to use it 
> with.
> I found Sizzle which, in it's own right, is a nice thing that creates
> a disk image (with the right format / folder locations, names)
> from audio and video file inputs which I could then drop into Toast 
> Lite and burn.

I have the pro version of Toast.

> But this has several gaps, I would first have to encode the video that
> I export it from iMovie with *some kind of* MPEG2 encoder, (demux
> audio and video?); also, there's no way to add titles, chapters etc 
> (although
> Sizzle has an option for adding Tracks.... I wonder if it's the same 
> thing)

No, there is no way to add titles, etc. My one experiment making 
multiple chapters (via tracks, as you suspected) with Sizzle was not 
successful.

> I guess the morale of this is - don't buy a LaCie unless you're 
> planning on
> buying DVD Studio Pro. Get a Formac that has comes with Devideon 
> (tried Devideon
> with the LaCie, although they both (Formac / LaCie) use the same 
> burner inside, it doesn't
> work)
>
> I remember someone mention an alternative to iDVD that supported 
> external
> burners?

Well, I have a G3 (a recent iBook), so none of the stuff I've seen 
*other than* Sizzle seems appropriate. If I'm wrong, I'd like to hear 
it.

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