[MacDV] DVD Burning

[Mark M. Florida]

Too many steps!  All you need to do is export straight from Premiere to 
a referencing movie -- you don't even need QuickTime Pro since you can 
just go straight from Premiere to your QuickTime referencing movie for 
iDVD.  A referencing movie just "references" the original clips so you 
don't have to waste drive space when exporting -- it's a single 
QuickTime file that has pointers to the original source clips.  You may 
have to render everything in your Premiere timeline first, but you'll 
save tons of drive space.  FYI, a movie exported from Premiere *is* 
already a QuickTime file, so the whole QuickTime Pro step is totally 
redundant.  If you feel the need to create another huge file (rather 
than creating a referencing movie, then make sure to export to DV 
format -- DV stream with 48kHz audio would be best just in case you 
need to bring it into iMovie -- see below).

So after you have your movie from Premiere, just drag it into iDVD and 
go from there.  No need to complicate matters with iMovie.  That is, 
unless you want to set chapters, in which case you'll need to import 
your Premiere referencing movie into iMovie (version 3 or later) and go 
from there -- set your chapter markers and then move to iDVD from 
within iMovie (no need to export yet another huge file).

That should get you started.  So, rather than spending money on 
QuickTime Pro, maybe put that towards a copy of iLife?

- Mark

On Mar 7, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Wooster wrote:

> Create Adobe Permier movie file -> Download latest free version of 
> Quicktime
> player -> Upgrade that to Quicktime Pro ($29.99 Bleah) -> Finnally 
> convert
> that to a quicktime movie file -> Import that to iMovie -> export that 
> to
> iDVD (And buy that too) -> Burn disk -> And finnaly I can have my DVD 
> disk.
>
> Please tell me there is a cheeper (And quicker, and less involved) way 
> to do
> this.