Toast 6 changes everything discussed below. Do it with Toast 6. k On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Patty Winter wrote: >> From: czayachkowski at shaw.ca >> >> Toast on a whole is a LOT cheaper than DVD Studio Pro but it does a >> lot >> more than burning. It is DVD Authouring where is Toast just does a >> direct burn. DVD Studio Pro has the ability to make your DVD look >> professional with all the graphical elements and motion titles. > > Right, which is why I'm hoping I can find a friend who has DVDSP and > visit long enough to slap some user interface elements onto my iMovie > files, encode them, then take the resulting file(s) home and burn the > DVDs at my leisure from my own Mac. > > Of course, none of this would be necessary if iDVD didn't have a hard > 90-minute limit; the tapes I'm trying to back up are just a bit longer > than that! I know that Erica and some others have discussed manually > tweaking the iDVD project file to trick it into encoding at a rate > that would allow more than 90 minutes to fit on a disc, but I don't > recall seeing mention of anyone actually trying that. If it's possible > and the results are good, then I'd do that. Otherwise, I need DVDSP. > > What we *really* need is a "prosumer" version of DVDSP, so that we'd > have iDVD, new product, DVDSP just as the editing world has iMovie, > FCE, and FCP. > > > Patty kunga10 (AIM) Can't Add New Buddies iChat Maxed Out Cube 500 Jaguar 10.2.6 kungax (AIM) Can Add Buddies iMac 350 no FW Panther Pre-Release kungag5 (AIM) dual 2 G5 Panther Release (coming soon) kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up video sans audio on Macs)