[MacDV] Re: equipment for dvd

[Gerhard Kuhn]

Hi Shirley

 From my experience you cannot actually author the DVD on a mac not  
equipped with an internal  DVD burner.  What iDVD 4 does allow is for 
you to set up the DVD interface on the non internal machine you then 
have to move the project to a machine with an internal burner for any 
encoding to happen.  This is a pretty big step forward since it allows 
you to use a powerbook to show a preview of your project and make 
changes on the powerbook all without taking time to make a DVD.  Then 
when you and anybody you are collaborating with is happy with the 
interface you move the project to a computer that will encode and burn 
the disk.

Gerhard

On Feb 8, 2004, at 12:30 PM, ShirleyK wrote:

> 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
>