[MacDV] Burn .dv to DVD without iDVD?

[Robert L. Vaessen]

Gregg -

On Oct 25, 2004, at 14:20, Gregg Gorrie wrote:

> on 10/24/04 3:38 PM, Robert L. Vaessen at rvaessen at mac.com wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> Does anyone know a way that I can burn digital video (.dv extesnion) 
>> to
>> a DVD without using iDVD?  I have been having absolutely no luck
>> getting my movie to disc by following Apple's standard iMovie to iDVD
>> to DVD workflow.
>>
>> I have a working digital video file that plays fine in QuickTime 6.5.1
>> (Pro version). The movie is DV/DVCPRO - NTSC format with 48Kb stereo
>> sound. Data size is 13GB. Duration is 32 minutes 27 seconds.
>
> Do you mean the DV file (.mov) data size is 13 GB? A DV format movie 
> file is
> approximately 12 GB/hour, so it makes no sense if you say your movie 
> is 32
> minutes 27 seconds - your movie file should be just over 6 GB if it is
> indeed that time length.

No. Here are the sizes of various file formats.

Archived iDVD project file: 13.22Gb
movie as a .dv file: 6.5Gb
movie as a .mov file: 9.38Gb

The movie footage is 32 minutes and 27 seconds.

>> What can I use to encode it into a Transport Stream (VIDEO_TS) and 
>> burn
>> it to disc?
>
> As mentioned earlier, you can make a DVD in Toast.

So, toast will take what input? encode the input, wrap it in a 
transport stream, and burn it to disc? If it will do all this, I might 
consider a purchase. I'm under the impression that Toast would only 
allow me to burn the data (after it has already be encoded and 
encapsulated) to DVD. If toast won't encode and encapsulate the data, 
then it won't play on a DVD player. Simply burning a .mov or .dv 
formated movie to a disc won't do me any good at all.

> Just as an addendum, we had a similar issue (crashing while exporting 
> to
> MPEG-2) on our school computers when we first upgraded to G5's. This 
> was
> using FCP and DVD SP. It turns out that the apps had to be installed 
> in a
> very specific order. Quicktime, DVD SP, and FCP all installed their own
> versions of the Quicktime MPEG-2 extension and apparently there was a
> problem if one installed over the other.
>
> Maybe try to re-install the apps if you haven't already done so.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with my video. It plays fine in 
QuickTime, iMovie, iDVD. I've already got the movie in .mov and .dv 
format. Why would I want to go back, re-install any applications (by 
the way what are FCP and DVD SP?), and then re-export my video footage?

Thanks,

- Robert