[MacDV] Re: iDVD iDvDidn't.

[Mandy Claire Caulton]

Bobbo what about those camcorders with Hard drives that encode as you 
film.Samsung ITCAM.port an hours footage in five minutes.! £600..More 
expense..

On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 08:18 PM, Bobbo wrote:

> After another four-hour attempt at encoding and burning, I came up with
> another pancake. It does play oK on my  Superdrive, but Crikey, the 
> idea
> behind iDVD is that you burn a freaking DVD! If I wanna pass out home
> movies to my family, do I REALLY have to buy them a Superdrive 
> equipped Mac
> to go with it? This is outrageous.
>
> Other discs I've burned (admittedly not many) have played just fine on 
> my 2
> players. New variables are
> iDVD4 and this endless tussle called OSX. It's really been awhile 
> since I
> did this, but I think my previous attempts may have been in 9. I am 
> soooo
> consistently frustrated by OSX, in virtually every way, that I am 
> beginning
> to regard it as some sort of practical joke (along with the constant 
> joyful
> noises I hear) and that Bill Gates bought Apple and is now killing it 
> with
> a Unix sword.
>
> As you can probably tell, I'm mad enough to bite a spider. I've wasted
> about 8 hours in this fruitless attempt to do the most basic damned 
> thing
> these hypercostly gizmos are supposed to do. I can wait until Tuesday 
> and
> enter the tech support carnival, but right now I'm just roundly pissed 
> at
> another failure of Apple to provide me with the environment Jobs is so 
> good
> at promising. At this moment, the digital lifestyle is not making my 
> life
> better, and I'm sick to death of being an unpaid Apple beta tester --  
> a
> tradition that began with OSX and the so-called "public beta," which 
> was
> (charitably) an incompetent Alpha.
>
> BTW - FWIW, Garage Band is a hoot. But I'm still mad.
>
> Also- there was a suggestion to do Erica's trick, add more material and
> change the encoding rate, then encode before burning. I've only ever 
> seen
> that as one (ENDLESS, INTERMINABLE) process. Is there a way to encode
> without going directly to burning, failing to pass go, and winding up 
> with
> another coaster?
>
> Apple, I've been a steady and moneybagged customer since 1986 but 
> you're
> really pushing me.
>
> Thanks, sorry for the rant but it's damned deserved. Any suggestions 
> that
> don't involve buying more Macs for family members would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bobbo
>
>
>
>>
>> Not all DVD players play the DVDs created in this way.  Does it play 
>> on
>> your Mac's drive?
>>
>> I had to buy a specific player to test the DVDs I was writing with the
>> superdrive.
>>
>> KenMc
>> On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bobbo wrote:
>>
>>> So I'm doing this long but very simple home movie consisting of 
>>> years'
>>> worth of my kids when they were little guyz. No fx, no titles, all
>>> butt-splice and about 55 minutes long.
>>>
>>> In iMovie 4, export to iDVD. In iDVD, burn.
>>>
>>> Begins processing for like 3 or 4 hours. Disc is not readable in
>>> either of
>>> my DVD players.
>>>
>>> Any clue what I might be doing wrong? Ever stubborn OSX 10.2.8 on a 
>>> PB
>>> Ti 1
>>> gig.
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