[MacDV] A Simple 115 Minute Presentation

[Nick Scalise]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:49 AM, James Asherman wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2005, at 12:58 AM, Patty Winter wrote:
>
>> I don't know; ask the people who recommended it to me. I would guess,
>> from your mention of the "Share" command, that it's because my  
>> version
>> of iMovie doesn't have that and thus I need to save to a full-length
>> QuickTime file before I can send the file to an external DVD  
>> recorder.
>
> TWo different things there. Playing out the  firewire has nothing  
> to do with the share command which is just export with  a friendly  
> name.
>  Couldn't you just wait for everything to render and then
> "play out to camera"
> iMovie is made to play the full DV quality back out the  firewire  
> to a camera deck or DVD recorder, and unless yours is completely  
> unrecognized,
> It seems like one step too many.

I was the one who recommended that Patty try SimpleVideoOutX as an  
alternative, cause she didn't have a DV cam and wasn't sure buying a  
firewire cable would work.

Oh and BTW, to whoever was wondering, the 90 minute DVD limit went  
away with iDVD 4.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Patty Winter <patty1 at sonic.net>
> Date: March 14, 2005 8:31:32 PM CST
> To: MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [MacDV] Transferring files from Mac to DVD/HDD combo  
> unit?
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."  
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>
>
> Just a quick followup. "Export to camera" from iMovie didn't work.
> It said I didn't have a camera connected, or the record tab wasn't
> in place. I suspect that iMovie sends out a signal and expects a
> certain response that my DVD recorder didn't provide.
>
> Simple Video Out, however, worked perfectly. And thank heavens for
> that O'Reilly article, or I never would have figured out how to
> use it! (Or that I could throw away most of the files in the Stuffit
> archive.)
>
> Perhaps other HDDs and DVD recorders will communicate properly
> with iMovie, but in my situation, it was SVO that did the trick.

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Nick Scalise
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