[MacDV] Re: archiving DV w/iMovie 3 and iDVD 3

[ShirleyK]

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Shirley

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 10:19  AM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> Just wanted to say that's a great idea -- to use a DVD as an easily  
> searchable archive of a tape.  I can see doing this myself, as I'm too  
> lazy to edit everything right away -- I could watch the uncut DVDs  
> until I get tired of watching 20 minutes of nothing to get to the good  
> 1 or 2 minutes of footage, *THEN* get out the original tapes and do  
> some cutting.  This will become even more viable as DVD-R prices  
> steadily come down in price.
>
> :-)
>
> The downsides I can see to using iMovie 3/iDVD 3 are that you only get  
> 6 clips per screen, and there is really no way to extract the  
> date/time metadata in the DV stream (or is there?), so you'd have to  
> manually enter that info to have it appear as the chapter title on  
> your DVD.  Also, you'd have to set the chapter markers individually  
> for each clip.
>
> As an alternative you could just make VCDs using Toast or for a free  
> solution on Mac OS X, use ffmpeg and VCD Builder  
> (http://homepage.mac.com/johan/), or even use Toast to encode the MPEG  
> files and VCD Builder to create menus.
>
> 2 cents.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
>
>> I'd like to dump a bunch of unedited DV tapes to DVD. I like the way  
>> iMovie imports the tape into separate clips and would like to  
>> automatically generate a DVD menu (and/or chapters) which correspond  
>> to the individual clips. It would be great to have the timestamp and  
>> clip length as a part of the chapter name/menu title. A menu  
>> consisting of thumbnails (like the Clips panel in iMovie) would also  
>> be wonderful.
>>
>> Basically, I'm looking for an automated (or nearly so) way to put all  
>> my unedited video on DVD in a way that I can quickly see what's on  
>> each tape.
>>
>> Can this be done with iMovie and iDVD?  Maybe with some  
>> Applescripting? Or is there some other software that would help for  
>> this?
>>
>> ( I can't be the only one who's ever wanted to do this, right? )
>>
>> -- 
>>  Ray Zimmerman  / e-mail: rz10 at cornell.edu / 428-B Phillips Hall
>>   Sr Research  /   phone: (607) 255-9645  /  Cornell University
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