[MacDV] IDVD Patch + iDVD 3 to Disk Image = External Burning

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[MacDV] IDVD Patch + iDVD 3 to Disk Image = External Burning

So I followed your lead Kathy and got iDVD 3 working on my Cube without 
the DVR-105 hooked up to my inside bus. I have the inside bus cable 
dangling outside my core but am still waiting for a pair of 6" female 
to male IED extensions to arrive from New Jersey before I can attach it 
from the outside of my Cube to the inside bus.

My question to everyone is this: If I create everything except the burn 
on a non-SuperDrive, what do all the files needed to do the burn on a 
SuperDrive Mac look like? Is there ultimately a disc image that we 
could burn with Toast on an external DVD-RW drive? Or is it a 
proprietary iDVD file that only Apple's burner interface for an 
internal 103, 104, 105 or the new Sony DVD-/+RW drive that are in the 
new iMacs must write to?

This iDVD 3 patch is certainly a step in that direction isn't it. If we 
could just write DVD disc images from iDVD 3, instead of only burn 
directly to an internal SuperDive, the external burners would finally 
be allowed to produce the discs with Toast.

Anyone care to work out that small variation at the end of the process? 
I still don't understand what the final file is just before the burn. 
Or is it a group of files that get combined in the burn?

k

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 08:08  PM, KathyMac! wrote:

>> No it doesn't. Sorry. Just checked it out myself:
>> With it, you can only launch iDVD3, create project, encode video
>> etc. but not burn.  I.e. everything minus burning works.
>
> I think that's still great, though. In a situation where you have 2 or 
> 3
> Macs in the house but only one is a high end machine with SuperDrive, 
> this
> allows your other family and/or friends to do all their authoring and
> creating with the complete iLife suite on their OWN computers. When
> finished, they can just come to the main Mac for final burning. At 
> least
> this patch provides another workstation for iDVD to be used in terms of
> creating the actual content. In my case, my roomate has an iMac and I 
> have
> another G3 in various rooms. Having iDVD launch and work on those 
> machines
> allows the big G4 to stay open for work and not be tied up in the 
> creating
> stage of building the actual content of the DVD. Then burning can be 
> done
> overnight.
>
> I'm looking forward to trying that patch - I hope it works for me.
>
> Kathy