Various newbie questions

[Paul Russell]

Hi -

I'm new to the list and a clueless newbie when it comes to DV, and I 
have a few questions. I'm using a Dazzle Hollywood analogue<->DV 
converter to pull video off analogue Hi-8 tapes onto a G4 Mac for 
editing with iMovie and burning onto VCD's and/or writing back out to 
VHS tapes.

1) The audio on my tapes is mono - is there any way I can either 
force iMovie to capture in mono rather than stereo, or is there some 
way of deleting the right channel audio ?

2) I had to split my movie across two partitions initially (as two 
separate iMovie "projects"). Now that I've edited out all the 
"scribble" I'd like to combine the two onto one partition, but iMovie 
appears to only let you import raw media files. Do I have to lose all 
my edits on the second part of the movie, import the raw clips, and 
then do the edits all over again ? Or can I perhaps export the second 
part in some suitable uncompressed format and import it into the 
first project ?

3) Is there any way to combine two clips in iMovie ? Because iMovie 
seems to want to split the captured video into clips of 9:27 you 
often end up with two clips which need to be spliced back together 
again.

4) What's the best way to master VCD's ? I see that Discribe from 
Anubis claims to be able to do this, but looking at a commercial VCD 
here it looks like it should be pretty easy to do just by putting the 
MPEG file and a few text files in the right places on an ISO (?) 
format CD ? Is there a "how to" or FAQ somewhere that explains how to 
make a VCD ? And what's the best way to generate the MPEG 1 file 
prior to mastering the VCD ?

Thanks in advance for any help on the above,

Paul
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