[MacDV] Importing video, editing, then making DVD

[Gordon Alley]

You would edit the video in iMovie. That's its primary purpose.

If you have a built-in DVD burner, iDVD (part of iLife) would be the
natural choice to set up and burn your DVD. iMovie can even start iDVD
for you and send it the edited video automatically.

If you are using an extenal DVD burner, the simplest way to burn your
DVD would be to use Toast. Toast doesn't have the flexibility of iDVD
for setting up menus and such for your DVD, but iDVD is not intended
to work with extenal DVD burners. There is a way to use iDVD from
iLife '05 to create an image of the DVD with the fancy menus, and then
actually do the burn with Toast, but that's a somewhat
more-complicated process.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:40:01 -0500, Timothy Luoma <lists at tntluoma.com> wrote:
> 
> I have some VHS tapes that I want to record onto DVD.  I have the
> hardware I need, I can import the video into iMovie w/o any problem.
> 
> What I am confused about is what program(s) I need to edit the video
> (i.e. if I have 10 minutes of video and want to just take a bunch of 30
> second samples from it).
> 
> I have QuickTime Pro, iLife '05 (actually I have '04 now and '05 is
> supposed to arrive tomorrow) and Toast 6 Titanium.  I've had a heck of
> a time trying to figure out whether any of these apps can do this or
> not (I'm brand new at this, as you may have already guessed).
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> TjL


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