[MacDV] Re: equipment for dvd

[ShirleyK]

No, there is no such issue with CD-R drives. This is strictly Apple's 
decision to make their iDVD software look for an internal drive and 
refuse to burn a DVD if it doesn't find an internal drive.  Prior to 
iLife '04, it wouldn't even let you author a DVD. Now you can author on 
one machine and move the project to another machine that has an 
internal DVD burner to complete the final step. If you were unable to 
burn a CD using an external drive, it's another issue.

Shirley

On Friday, December 17, 2004, at 09:05  PM, lilyplant wrote:

> Got it. I bet your answer explains a problem I've had with an external 
> cd-r.
>
> on 2/8/04 9:10 AM, Gerhard Kuhn at gerhardk at mac.com wrote:
>
>> It won't work because it is external.  You can fit your tower with an
>> internal Pioneer drive bought anywhere and it will work with iDVD.  If
>> you put that same drive in a firewire case it will not allow iDVD to
>> work but Toast will work with it.  According to Apple this is 
>> licensing
>> issue but others feel it has more to do with promoting new hardware
>> sales.