[MacDV] Re: iDVD3 w/ external drive... Anybody try this?

[Thubten Kunga]

I am in the same boat you are Craig, an iDVD novice. But I think I can 
now confirm that this patch will not help iDVD 3 work on a G3 Mac. I 
just finished reinstalling it with the patch on a B&W G3 (was 
temporarily a G4 from PowerLogix) and a G3 iMac and both installs would 
not let iDVD 3 stay up. It would launch. But when I attempt to run the 
Tutorial, it quits after a few seconds of the opening music.

So unless anyone else can confirm the opposite, I think the G3's are 
out of the picture.

I want to know, like you do, the name of the "whatever it is called 
file". Who out there on this list knows if it is one iDVD 3 file or a 
disc image or a group of files that can only be combined with an iDVD 3 
burn to an internal SuperDrive?

Thanks in advance for an answer. It seems like we are getting closer to 
an external burner solution every day. I hope the dream may become 
reality soon.

k

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 11:42  PM, Craig Busch wrote:

> Hi,
> I am very interested in hearing from someone using this.  My 
> understanding is that with
> this patch you can open iDVD3 on a G3 or G4 Mac, set up your DVD, 
> encode your video to
> MPEG2, and have the "whatever it is called file" all ready, so you 
> could put it on an
> external firewire drive and then bring it into any Mac with a 
> SuperDrive and iDVD3 and
> burn your disk?
>
> Or can the "whatever it is called file" be used with Toast to burn on 
> any external
> firewire DVD burner?
>
> Thanks for any explaining or help on this.  As you can tell I have not 
> made any DVDs yet.
>
> Craig