[MacDV] Re: More than 90 minutes update

[Laine lee]

Yes, this seems to be a fairly complicated way to do it, but I’ve done 
it dozens of times to make DVDs from strings of TV shows I’ve recorded 
for my little boy. He’s 3 and doesn’t have enough mastery of the remote 
control yet to fast forward through the commercials on video tape, so I 
just take ‘em out in iMovie and make the DVDs. I’ve done it with movies 
up to 130 minutes in length. Any time the total of the sources is over 
about 108 minutes, I just re-encode with Transcoder, although now I 
understand there is a way to get iDVD to encode at a lower bit rate 
that the automatic one.

The reason I’m responding now is that my article has been updated to 
include an Applescript that will handle one of the more tedious steps 
(removing 5 bytes from the end of an iDVD mpeg file so that it can be 
successfully appended using the mpgtx utility). Once you follow the 
procedure a couple of times,  I hope you’ll see that the project is 
really quite manageable, especially as an alternative to buying a more 
complete DVD authoring program than iDVD.  


<http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/idvd.html>


Laine