[X4U] Ambitious DVD Project.

[Nick Scalise]

On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 10:26AM, Andre Balogh <invicta at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>I have about two hours playing time of up-to 40 years old super 8 mm
>family movies. I heard that you can have these transferred to DVD
>discs which you can than clean up and edit. This project can than be
>burned on several copies of DVD's.
>
>We have an Gooseneck 15" iMac, 1.5 GB Ram, running OS X 10.3.9 and
>iLife 5. On this machine will the editing be done. Than we have to
>transfer by Firewire the edited program from this iMac to my 17" ALPB
>running OS X 10.4 which can burn DVD's.
>
>Question is how do I access the DVD's for editing and which program
>do I use or need additionally ?

DO NOT have them transferred to DVD. Have them transferred to DV tape. Then import it yourself from a DV camera.

When DVD's are created, the content is compressed. So you would be uncompressing the DVD, editing it and then recompressing to go back on DVD.

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Nick Scalise
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