[MacDV] Re: What am I missing?

[SLarsonIH at aol.com]

Can't use iDVD since this is on a 8600. I obviously couldn't find the OS9 
iMovie on Apple's web site. Are you sure it's a download? When I get to the 
burn stage, it just becomes a spinning beach ball. I want to burn my own DVD 
movie, not a commercial one. I was concerned about the fact that it's a RW, 
not an R
Thank anyway.

STeve

<<> I've got the Pioneer 105, iMovie in OSX, and some Quicktime movies. I 
> thought I could get my feet wet burning the Quicktime movies via Toast 
> 5.2 to DVD-RW's that I bought. No can do.

You can do it, but its a lot of trouble. You have to get the QT movie 
into MPEG2 format using something like MediaPipe or another 
converter/encoder and get the audio into MPEG2 or AC3 format. Then you 
can create a burnable image with the program "Sizzle". Once the image 
is created, you can burn that to DVD with Toast. Or you could just use 
iDVD.

> So, I have a few questions. Is iMovie available for OS9, and if so, 
> how do I get it?

Yes - I'd expect its a download on the Apple site.

> Is there any way to import Quicktime movies into iMovie? It looked 
> like it will only import a DV stream.

Export your QT movie as a DV stream using Quicktime Pro

> I bought Memorex (Not my favorite brand) DVD-RW ver 1.1 discs. I tried 
> to  burn data to them, and it wouldn't. There isn't much in the manual 
> about burning DVD's. It burned a couple of CD's with no problem. 
> Suggestions?

What happened? Should work.

> Can you burn a DVD movie to DVD-RW?

Not legally

SR >>