[MacDV] Re: iDVD encoding

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 03:02 AM, RRSounds at aol.com wrote:

> Steve,
> I don't know about you, but when I'm encoding a DVD, I don't do 
> ANYTHING else with my computer, including checking for free space. 
> Call me superstitious, but as soon as I click that "Burn" button, it's 
> hands-off until the disc pops out, be that 15 minutes or six hours 
> later.

Me either - but encoding it and burning it can be two different steps.

> I would suspect that if iDVD is using the boot drive for a scratch 
> disc, it will delete the file when the job is done, unless the 
> disc-burning process fails or is aborted. Only then might we find a 
> tell-tale file... though it's probably invisible. :-)

I suppose its possible that some small scratch files are created, but I 
doubt that it does anything where 700 MB of free space would not be 
enough. It might encode the menus on the boot disk, since it seems to 
re-do them every time, even when encoding has been completed.

The original context was: "how do I make iDVD encode its data files on 
the same drive as the project" - and for the movies, it does that.

SR