[MacDV] Moving into DVD - help!!!

[Erica Sadun]

DVDSP is a lot more reliable than iDVD, but it still
takes up a lot of computer resources. Sounds like
you'll have to do a bit of cost/benefit analysis
but you might consider buying another computer
and using it as your DVD workhorse. PCs are quite
cheap right now, as are DVD burners. Perhaps you'd
author on a Mac and burn on a PC?

-- Erica



At 5:41 PM +0000 11/10/03, Karl Hayden wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>This may be a bit long but hope you can stay with me and offer any 
>advice you may have.
>
>Increasingly I am being asked for finished work on DVD. The 
>programme I most often use to edit with is iMovie2 as the material 
>usually consists of simple cuts, I gave up on iMovie3 as a bad joke. 
>Mostly I would send out the finished material to someone to burn the 
>DVD, but it is costly and can sometimes be more trouble that it is 
>worth. The problem with trying to produce the DVDs myself is:-
>
>1: I am using iDVD and that limits the amount of running time I can 
>produce on a DVD-R 4.7Gb to less than 50mins.
>
>2: Too often I have had my DVDs returned as they won't play on other machines.
>
>3: The burning process often fails before the DVD is finished.
>
>4: The amount of time it takes to burn a DVD ties up my computer for 
>far too long.