[MacDV] Creating a VideoCD

[Mark.Florida]

On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 05:22  PM, Neville Thomas wrote:

> Questions...
> Can iMovie Export to MPEG-1 and/or MPEG-2 ?
>  (and then burn CD with Toast)

If you buy Toast Titanium you can export to MPEG-1 from any app that 
allows exporting of QuickTime clips (like QuickTime Pro player or even 
iMovie).

> Does   iMovie Export to Quicktime, Format CD-ROM do that ? or what?

iMovie only exports to QuickTime, CD burning is handled by the system 
(Disc Burner in the Finder) or Toast.

> Would the quality be the same ?

You can usually get better quality with QuickTime for computer 
playback.  You wouldn't be able to play a CD-ROM with QuickTime files 
on a set-top DVD player, but you could play VCDs and SVCDs on both your 
computer (using VLC player) *and* a set top player, and SVCDs rival 
DVDs in quality but can be burned onto CD-Rs.

> Should I buy iVCD ?

 From what I've seen it looks like a solid app.  I'll probably buy it 
myself for the simple fact that it allows such easy (albeit slow) 
creation of SVCDs on the Mac.

Hope that helps some.

- Mark