[MacDV] iDVD history?

[Mark Florida]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 09:23PM, L.Cornelio <cornelio at san.rr.com> wrote:

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>could someone give me a short rundown on iDVD - I havent used it but now 
>have the chance, though I am still cobfidently using 9.2.2  rather than 
>Jag.
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>All I have noticed at quick glance
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>iDVD 1.0 will work w OS9 -60 min limit on what it can create.
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>iDVD 2- needs X? still a 60 min limit? what ere the major upgrade 
>features?

iDVD 2 will let you encode up to 90 minutes onto a DVD-R

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>iDVD 3 - coming soon for $50 = can accept iMovie 3 chapters, will encode 
>direct to mpeg2, no need to use quicktime.

Uh...  "direct to mpeg2?"  You don't have to manually export clips even with iDVD 1 and 2.  Are you talking about iMovie's "Export to iDVD" function -- that really just combines your edited video (from the timeline) into one big file so it will play completely on a DVD.  From my understanding, iMovie 3 with iDVD 3 eliminates this interem exporting step, and will even let you set chapter markers that iDVD 3 can read...  I can't wait!

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>Could someone flesh this out a bit ?
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>thanks!
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