[MacDV] Re: Toast and iDVD

[Filipp Lepalaan]

... and I also wanted to thank Mr. Kunga for this one.
I solved my Toast Lite / iMovie / LaCie burner problem.

Thank You,
filipp


>Tom,
>Alternately you can build SVCDs that will play on many DVD players 
>with ffmpeg, VCD Builder and Toast. Here's my install info from last 
>week:
>
>Part One The Encoder
>
>ffmpegXv0.0.6f Installation and Operation Tutorial by Kunga part 1
>
>I spent a lot of time getting the multi-format encoder 
>ffmpegXv0.0.6f working this morning. Link to it is at the bottom of 
>this message. I thought I'd share how to install it with everyone 
>just in case you run into the problems I did. It works beautifully 
>if you get it configured correctly. That is the trick.
>
>1. The ffmpegXv0.0.6f download that you get from 
><http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=major4&templatefn=FileSharing1.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.1.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en> 
>is not all you need to download.
>
>2. You also must download the "Last Binary" Folder from this link 
>which activates an auto download when you get there.
><http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/lastbinary.sit?download> 
>Unstuffit.
>
>3. You mount (if it didn't auto mount) the 
>ffmpegX_0.0.6f.dmg-link.dmg disk image
>
>4. I copied the entire disk image to my Applications->Video 
>Applications Folder (option drag to prevent an alias only copy).
>
>5. Put the "last binary 090203" Folder in that new ffmpegX folder as well.
>
>6. Download the text file "mpeg2enc" which comes in as 
>"mpeg2enc.txt" from <http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/MacOS/>
>(option-click the link and choose "Save link on the disk")
>
>7. Put it in the ffmpegX folder too.
>
>8. Run the ffmpegX engines installer where you press locate buttons 
>for "mpeg2enc.txt" first, then the other two which are inside the 
>last binary 090203 folder. Then press Install and watch the Terminal 
>program ask you for your password and hit return and watch for the 
>words "Installation Successful".
>
>9. Now you are ready for the easy part: Encoding your first SVCD 
>file. Launch ffmpegX0.0.6f and pull down at the bottom where it says 
>"Quick Presets" to "SVCD (NTSC)".
>
>10. At the top press the "Open..." button and choose your iMovie 3 
>Full Quality DV Export file.
>
>11. Right under that press the "Save As..." button and give your 
>SVCD file a name.
>
>12. Press the "Encode" button in the lower right corner of the interface box.
>
>13. Watch and wait for ffmpegX0.0.6f to generate any number of files 
>that ultimately get recombined into one final .mpg file that is your 
>final MPEG2 movie ready for Toast.
>
>You can play this file with Vic (someone please help with the URL 
>for Vic) or, if you have the $20 MPEG2 addition to QT6, QT Player 
>will play it as well.
>
>Next step is to assemble several of these SVCD files in the brand 
>new 1.1.1 (Feb 4.03) VCD Builder. <http://homepage.mac.com/johan/>
>
>Then that multi movie assembly (like iDVD Free) gets burned with 
>Toast in the Other-> Multitrack CD-ROM XA format.
>
>I got a 14.5 MB movie from a 159.5 MB Full Quality DV Export file 
>with my first test of the old 47 second iMovie Tutorial set of clips 
>of Matty and the Kids. Now that's effeciency. Extrapolated out it's 
>about 20MB per minute or 35 minutes on a 700 MB CD-R/RW.
>
>But the content of your video will result in different times because 
>it's a variable bit encoder. So long speeches will fit with more 
>time than an action video with lots of changes.
>
>End of Part One.
>
>On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 03:13  AM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:56 AM, Tom Kirshbaum wrote:
>>
>>>I'm really confused about Toast. I can't even find the answer on Roxio's web
>>>site.
>>>
>>>Can Toast burn an iMovie onto DVD, or is it necessary to go through iDVD
>>>first?
>>
>>Yes, Toast can burn an iMovie onto DVD, but not in a manner that's 
>>useful without some authoring program. For one thing, iMovie files 
>>aren't compressed.
>>
>>There's a workflow that goes:
>>
>>1. digital video clips in (camera, analog-to-digital converter)
>>2. iMovie to arrange clips in correct order and edit them
>>3. author video, including compression
>>4. burn to disc
>>
>>Toast can do 4
>>iMovie does 2
>>iDVD does 3
>>
>>>If it can, then what are the advantages to having iDVD at all?
>>
>>Want chapters? Want to include stills? Want something that plays in 
>>a consumer DVD player?
>>
>>--
>>_Deirdre                                             http://deirdre.net