[MacDV] Burning (DVDs) and Boosting (iMovie audio) questions

[Shirley Kehr]

Here is the description from Apple's media:

Description
Apple DVD-R media is certified for use in the Apple
SuperDrive and other drives which use DVD-R "General
Use" media. These discs are ideal for use with iDVD, or
for creating one-offs with DVD Studio Pro. Package
contains 5 blank DVD-R discs, 4.7 gigabyte capacity
each. Can be used with applications like iDVD or DVD
Studio Pro for writing DVD-Video titles, or with
third-party software for writing data. For use only in
DVD-R General drives, such as the Apple SuperDrive.
Note: These discs are not compatible with DVD-R
Authoring drives (i.e. Pioneer 201).


Shirley


John Teffer wrote:
> 
> Hi all, this is my first time posting a real Mac DV post here, so hopefully
> these are pretty easy questions.
> 
> I'm working on a little documentary video (only about 15 minutes long) for
> an animal rescue group I volunteer for, and have only sporadic access to a
> school computer lab to do my editing.
> 
> The machines in the lab are G4 towers, with the built in "SuperDrive" DVD
> burner.
> 
> My first question is, what type of media should I buy to burn my finished
> project to DVD?  I was at Best Buy this afternoon and asked, but no one
> there knew anything about Macs.  Does the SuperDrive record to DVD-R,
> DVD-RW, DVD+R, or DVD+RW?  (I think those were the ones they had.)
> 
> Second question:
> 
> Most of the audio in the video is voice-overs, which I recorded at home, by
> connecting an external microphone to an iMac, and recording an Audio CD.
> 
> When I import the CD tricks into iMovie, it sounds great, but the few times
> when I need to hear the audio from the original video, it is much too soft.
> 
> I've figured out how to LOWER the volume of a clip in iMovie, so I guess I
> could just lower all the voice-overs to match the video audio, but I'd much
> rather amplify the original audio somehow, to match the voice-overs.
> 
> My somewhat clumsy idea so far is to connect an audio amplifier between the
> camcorder and the DV bridge when I import the video, so that I can raise the
> audio level where it is needed, but if there's a way to do it within iMovie
> without having to lug my stereo's cassette deck (the closest thing I have to
> an audio amplifier, at least it has meters and level controls) to the
> computer lab, I'd much rather do that.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> 
> John
> 
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