On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 15:10 US/Central, Jim Asherman wrote: > A nice thought but you would still be short of any suitable user > interface for your DVD. If you're watching ("seeing", playing) the MPG-2 file with QT you already have a user interface. If you need to watch a DVD, use DVD Player. > iDVD does indeed do the conversion but in my experience does not allow > for > converting to mpeg2 and then accessing those mpeg2 files for any other > purpose than a DVD made with iDVD. Exactly my point, QT (or QT Pro) should be able to export MPG-2 files without buying DVD Studio Pro. Ralph