[MacDV] Re: iDVD encoding

[R B Williams]

True, Toast does a smooth job with the encoding - but - it lacks a lot in the menu
department. When you need a disc that seems professional to the user, idvd can't be
beat.

sb wrote:

> This is one reason why people buy Toast.
>
>  sb
>
> On 1/19/04 1:18 AM, "RRSounds at aol.com" <RRSounds at aol.com> wrote:>
> > I've run into this problem before. This is what I was trying to
> > explain in my previous post
> >
> > I believe the 712.4 MB free space you have is simply not enough.
> >
> > iDVD may take as much as 4.5 GB to make a DVD, and you don't
> > have that much free space on your boot (OSX) drive.
> >
> > Your iMovie project is on the external drive, but it's my experience
> > that iDVD wants to use your OS X boot drive to encode onto, before
> > it burns the disc.
> >
> > Clear out any failed attempts, then make sure you have 4.5GB free
> > space, before you start reinstalling everything.
> >
> > If someone knows a way to get iDVD to encode onto an external,
> > or any disc other than the OSX boot drive, I'd be grateful if you'd
> > let us know.
> >
> > David Reaves
>
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