[MacDV] Re: iDVD & 3 movies

[Mark M. Florida]

Actually, you can still choose to work the old way if you want, it's 
just that now when you "export to iDVD" from iMovie 3, it just pops 
straight over to iDVD with your existing files, instead of filling up 
your hard drive with Full Quality DV exports of your edited projects.

To "regress" and do things the old way, just choose to Export to 
QuickTime and use the "Full Quality DV" option -- that's all the 
"Export to iDVD" option did in iMovie 2 anyway.  Then open iDVD on it's 
own (not through iMovie) and start from scratch.  Of course you won't 
have "chapters" doing it this way, but it's there and it's an option.

So at least now there's a choice now of how you want to do things, even 
if it's not as obvious as before.

Hope that helps.

- Mark

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 08:59 AM, Mike Swope wrote:

> Seems like the "integration" between iMovie 3 and iDVD 3 has become 
> limiting rather than empowering. Apple *SHOULD NOT* have removed the 
> ability to export iDVD-ready video as was available in iMovie 2. 
> Around the net, I hear a lot of grumblings about these 2 upgrades.
>
> Is anyone happy with these upgrades?
>
> Gordon B. Alley wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:05:00 -0400, Joan Keenan <jkeenan at islands.vi> 
>> wrote:
>>> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:05:00 -0400
>>> Subject: [MacDV] iDVD & 3 movies
>>> From: Joan Keenan <jkeenan at islands.vi>
>>> Message-Id: <1632FF7F-5472-11D7-B0C5-00039348910E at islands.vi>
>>>
>>> I'm ready to use iDVD for the first time, but want to include 3 
>>> movies,
>>> one of which I want to break into 6 chapters I have that one ready to
>>> burn, but how do I add the other movies. If I open them & go to 
>>> export
>>> to dvd they open a new idvd screen. I tried going to export to dvd, 
>>> but
>>> that says it is not necessary anymore & opens iDVD at a new screen!
>>> How can I get all the movies on one dvd....they are not long. I'm 
>>> sure
>>> there is an easy way...but I can't find it.
>>> Thanks in advance for your expertise.
>>>
>>> Joan
>> First export the iMovie with chapters to iDVD.
>> Then open each of the other two iMovie projects and export them to 
>> QuickTime files for iDVD (not directly to iDVD). Actually, I think 
>> you can skip the export step and just use the .mov reference files 
>> that iMovie 3 automatically creates in the movie project folders.
>> Then open your iDVD project and drag those two files to the 
>> appropriate menu screen.
>> I recently created a similar DVD this way (one movie with chapters 
>> and a second without on the same DVD). These are the steps I 
>> followed, IIRC.
>
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