iDVD encoding

[RRSounds at aol.com]

In a message dated Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:16:00, Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> writes:


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On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 03:02 AM, RRSounds at aol.com wrote:

> Steve,
> I don't know about you, but when I'm encoding a DVD, I don't do
> ANYTHING else with my computer, including checking for free space.
> Call me superstitious, but as soon as I click that "Burn" button, it's
> hands-off until the disc pops out, be that 15 minutes or six hours
> later.

Me either - but encoding it and burning it can be two different steps.

> I would suspect that if iDVD is using the boot drive for a scratch
> disc, it will delete the file when the job is done, unless the
> disc-burning process fails or is aborted. Only then might we find a
> tell-tale file... though it's probably invisible. :-)

I suppose its possible that some small scratch files are created, but I
doubt that it does anything where 700 MB of free space would not be
enough. It might encode the menus on the boot disk, since it seems to
re-do them every time, even when encoding has been completed.

The original context was: "how do I make iDVD encode its data files on
the same drive as the project" - and for the movies, it does that.

SR
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No, I don't recall it that way, Steve. The original question was "why can't I burn a DVD when I appear to have enough space on my drive"...but then Dorothy mentioned she only had 700MB or so on the boot drive.

I think we, who have had the same problem and worked it out, have answered her question pretty well, don't you?

Though those people who haven't run into this are welcome to continue to speculate :-)

I'm interested as to whether Dorothy has successfully made a DVD yet...
Dorothy?


+Peace+

David Reaves