Another DVD burning question

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 3/8/04 at 2:23 PM, "Donald C. Tully" <drdon at mwt.net> transmitted the
following electronic message:

>
>I am attempting to burn an Imovie 3.0 DVD on my Formac Divideon CD/DVD
>burner.  All goes well until I attempt the burn. The recording starts
>and then stops after about 30 seconds. The disk is ejected and a
>message appears asking that I insert a blank DVD. of course, the
>original disk is ruined. I am using Maxell DVD-R disks on an IMac G3
>running OS X.2.8.  By the way, burning music CD's is a snap; no
>problems...Any thoughts?  Thank You...

First, iMovie 3 (and 4) don't make "DVD"s. They create QuickTime
"reference" files that point to the DV Stream (not DVD) content in the
clips. It appears, from your description, that you are leaving out the
step that encodes the DV Stream into the MPEG-2 files a DVD authoring
and burning program needs as input.

I would strongly suggest that the easiest solution for you, since you're
using a G3 with external burner, would be to invest in a copy of Toast 6
Titanium and use it. Toast includes an encoder that will do the job for
you.

Note that encoding to MPEG-2 is not a fast operation, and it will be
even slower on your G3 hardware. However, Toast will author and burn the
DVD for you.

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Dennis R. Cohen
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