[MacDV] set-up for using my powerbook G4 to edit videos and burn to dvd

[Granville Kennedy]

I believe that iDVD5 has the ability to burn DVD's to an external DVD  
burner.  There is a hack that allows you to use external DVD burners  
with earlier versions of iDVD, or even better burn to a disk image so  
you can preview your DVD in the DVD Player before you burn to a DVD -  
which is really useful for those times you need to make a bunch of  
copies and can't tie up your computer for days running iDVD :-)

The files can be downloaded from here :

http://forum.rpc1.org/download.php? 
id=352&sid=80b3f473da1904bad86acf255bf49282

Put the Hurz and Pfurz files at the top level of your home directory.   
When ready to burn in iDVD hold the control button down when you click  
on the burn icon, wait for the contextual menu to pop up and then  
choose the drive or option that suits you.

More info is available here :

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=23370

Hope this helps!

Regards,
		Joey Kennedy.



On Jul 30, 2005, at 1:17 AM, olivia block wrote:

Hello
  I am interested in using my powerbook G4 to edit videos from my  
camcorder
and I would like to buy some sort of external DVD burner to transfer the
images to DVD. I am really new to this stuff, and I have tried to use a
consumer DVD recorder to do crude transfers from my camcorder but the  
DVDs
wouldn't play on anything, including my computer.
  Now I am looking at DVD burners with firewire or whatever instead. I  
guess
it would be best if these worked with iDVD but it seems like they  
don't??
Also, is there any external DVD burner which can also be used directly  
with
the camcorder, like with consumer DVD recorders?
  Any advice would be appreciated
  Thanks