[MacDV] Re: VCD Help

[Thubten Kunga]

There must be a problem with this G4 unit because:

I just ran that Export Test in iMovie 2.1.2 with the 450 G3 in there at 
it did not freeze and completed on first try with no problem including 
the auto boot of Toast 5.2 ready for the VCD burn. Just completed the 
burn @ 16x in a matter of seconds on the DVR-105.

Can't figure out how to play the Video CD. Anybody know? I know this is 
a real stupid question. But this is my first VCD burn ever. The 
QuickTime Player 6.1 just has a blank screen as it "plays". DVD Player 
no good. Not on the Mac?

Plays perfectly on my $39 CyberHome DVD Player from Best Buy! Funky but 
full screen.

Anyway to bump up the resolution in this format? How do we do this is 
SVCD?

Thanks everyone. You guys and gals are great.

Kunga

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:31  PM, Michael Winter wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:58  PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>
>> I spoke of success too soon.
>>
>> I repeatedly get a total crash/freeze must restart computer in the 
>> middle of the Export to QuickTime to Toast VCD (NTSC) procedure.
>
> Problems like this have been fixed in the past (for me anyway) by 
> making sure everything is current. That includes Toast, iMovie, 
> QuickTime, and the OS. My current setup is :
>
> Toast Titanium 5.2
> iMovie 2.1.2
> QuickTime 6.1
> Mac OS X 10.2.3
>
> If you still can't get it to work, try exporting as a Quicktime movie 
> using full, uncompressed resolution (don't remember what its called 
> and it will take a lot of drive space). You should then be able to 
> drag that file onto Toast Titanium and it will do the conversion then 
> instead. See <http://www.roxio.com/en/interest/video/vidcapmac.jhtml> 
> and scroll down to the "Automatic MPEG Encoding" section.
>
> Some of the other pages at 
> <http://www.roxio.com/en/interest/video/index.jhtml> may also be of 
> interest..
>
> -Mike