[MacDV] Re: A big difference between the two

[Erica Sadun]

At 3:24 PM -0700 9/14/03, Patty Winter wrote:
>    >From: czayachkowski at shaw.ca
>    >
>    >Toast on a whole is a LOT cheaper than DVD Studio Pro but it does a lot
>    >more than burning. It is DVD Authouring where is Toast just does a
>    >direct burn. DVD Studio Pro has the ability to make your DVD look
>    >professional with all the graphical elements and motion titles.
>
>Right, which is why I'm hoping I can find a friend who has DVDSP and
>visit long enough to slap some user interface elements onto my iMovie
>files, encode them, then take the resulting file(s) home and burn the
>DVDs at my leisure from my own Mac.
>
>Of course, none of this would be necessary if iDVD didn't have a hard
>90-minute limit; the tapes I'm trying to back up are just a bit longer
>than that! I know that Erica and some others have discussed manually
>tweaking the iDVD project file to trick it into encoding at a rate
>that would allow more than 90 minutes to fit on a disc, but I don't
>recall seeing mention of anyone actually trying that. If it's possible
>and the results are good, then I'd do that. Otherwise, I need DVDSP.
>
>What we *really* need is a "prosumer" version of DVDSP, so that we'd
>have iDVD, new product, DVDSP just as the editing world has iMovie,
>FCE, and FCP.
>
>
>Patty

The new price-point of DVDSP 2 makes it a prosumer
product. $500 ($250 academic).

-- Erica