[MacDV] Re: iDVD3 w/ external drive... Anybody try this?

[Thubten Kunga]

Please keep this string going until we have the solution. I like the 
disk image best because Toast can deal with that very cleanly. But I 
don't even know what the last file(s) looks like or where it/they 
is/are at all just prior to the burn. Do you Rod?

Kunga

On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 10:00  AM, Rod Duncan wrote:

> I have a Ti 667 DVI Powerbook with an external Pioneer DVR-105 and the 
> full install iLife DVD. Just bought it and I dropped it into a nice 
> minimalist case from FW Depot. In addition to the 911 Firewire bus, I 
> opted for the $5 extra USB 2 bus/port, too.
>
> I digress... I am going over to a friend's today who has a Dualie G4 
> Superdrive equipped machine and will do the network install and patch 
> of iDVD3 onto the Ti DVI PB.
>
> I have done "some" DVD burning with a previous and "now returned" 
> external Formac Pioneer DVR-105 drive and their Devideon software. 
> More on that on a later post. I will give it proper review coverage 
> then, 'nuff said.
>
> Most of my DVD burning has been on this buddy's superdrive dualie G4 
> and my brother's flat panel iMac. I am reasonably familiar with iDVD2. 
> I have also used Cleaner 6, have experimented with DVD Studio Pro 
> 1.5.2 (probably end up using it) and have the Quicktime 6.02 with the 
> MPEG2 encoder.
>
> The patch doesn't see the drive to burn? If that is the case, it 
> sounds like we might have to export the iDVD completed file maybe as 
> an image either to Toast or will it open in DVD Studio Pro for output 
> burning? Dunno, thinking out loud. Will have a better idea once I get 
> the iDVD on board my Powerbook and fool around with the various 
> software packages to see if it can be tricked into using the external 
> drive.
>
> A small challenge to us iDVD hacker types. Lets see if someone can 
> wrestle this to the ground by Sunday PM.
> You have your assignment.  < Grin >
>
> "Mr Phelps... this tape will self-destruct in 10 seconds."
>
> Rod
>
>> I mean what computer are you using now? I for example have adapted a 
>> Cube to run with an external DVR-105 by removing the internal optical 
>> and dangling its IDE and power cables outside the core, then 
>> extending those connectors with extensions that make the Cube think 
>> the DVR-105 is inside itself.
>>
>> k
>>
>> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 01:58  AM, Craig Busch wrote:
>>
>>> My next computer will either be the new 1gig iMac or a 1 gig tower 
>>> ordered from Apple
>>> with the SuperDrive.
>>> When this happens, the Lacie idea will not be an issue.  I know that 
>>> I would be happy
>>> from what I have learned with iDVD.  The Lacie results and user 
>>> experience are something
>>> I know very little about.