[CUBE] Digital video

[Alex May]

Hi Eagle,

I've got a MiniDv camera (a Panasonic NVGS30) and used to use iMove - I'm
now trying to get to grips with Final Cut Pro.

I don't have a DVD recorder but hope to have one soon.

I've made one or two VCDs but getting the final mixer mpeg from iMovie for
example, and I just dragged and dropped it into a VCD in Toast.

Give that ago - contact me for any software 'details' if needed ;-)

Alex


on 1/12/2003 6:15 PM, Eagle at eagle243 at mac.com wrote:

> Greetings, all.
> 
> Over the weekend I went to a day-after-Thanksgiving sale at Best Buy
> and purchased a MiniDV camera.  (For the curious, I picked up a Canon
> ZR60 for ~$275 after rebate.)  Anyway, I don't have an internal DVD-R,
> but I do have a Firewire CDRW drive and am interested in burning some
> of my videos to VCD.
> 
> Anybody else doing something similar?  If so, what tools do you use?
> So far I have been using iMovie to import my video and to edit the
> movie.  Then I have been using ffmpegX to convert to MPEG, then VCD
> Builder to create a VCD with menus.  Finally I use MissingMediaBurner
> to burn my disk images to VCDs.  This is a hassle, because I have to
> deal with many applications, and because I have to reconfigure ffmpegX
> every time I start it - it doesn't remember its settings.
> 
> I would much rather use a single application for everything, so I tried
> out iVCD.  iVCD is very nice, and makes converting my videos and
> preparing the VCD image single click operations.  Fortunately it
> supports my LaCie CDRW drive, but unfortunately it doesn't support
> menus.
> 
> I guess I could use iVCD to convert the movies with one click, then VCD
> Builder to create my menu systems, but then I still have to use
> MissingMediaBurner to create the disk itself.
> 
> I wondered what others are doing.
> 
> Curiously,
> 
> Eagle
> 
> PS - I used to be a total Unix geek.  Now I'm turning into a "make it
> easy!" Mac user more & more every day. :)