[X4U] Re: Ambitious DVD Project.

[Andre Balogh]

>
>> 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.
>
> --
> Nick Scalise
> nickscalise at mac.com

I own no DV camera, so is there no other solution ?

Andre.