You go to an external drive and you either settle for a program like Toast 6 that allows you to make very rudimentary menus resulting in amateur look to your DVD or you buy a big buck program to make better looking DVDs but that sort of defeats going external in the first place. iDVD is the nicest low/no cost authoring program that I have seen and it does not work externally and it doesn't look like that will change. Gerhard On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Carl Flatow wrote: > > It's not that finding a reasonably priced drive is my concern, just > hoping it will be as useful in recording movies as I might wish. > > Can anyone chime in with the pros & cons in terms of what software and > features will NOT be available if I (we:)) go external? > > Carl