[MacDV] Quick! Can you make DVD's on an external burner?

[Erica Sadun]

>I've made an iMovie for my Aunt & Uncle's 50th wedding anniversary, and
>I need to mail it today!
>
>I'd like to put it on DVD, and I've exported from iMovie to an iDVD
>".mov" file.  However, the only DVD burner in the building is an
>external FireWire one (the actual drive came out of a G4 Mac, but it is
>now housed in an external FireWire case).
>
>Is there any way to burn a DVD that will be viewable in a consumer DVD
>player using the external drive? Can iDVD (the old free one) do it? What
>about Toast (we have that)? If Toast will do it, how is it done?
>
>Thanks!

Randy:

Put it on VHS instead.

The reasons are too numerous to list here
and your timeline is running out.

-- Erica