[MacDV] Re: Compressing in iMovie '05 (or Toast or iDVD?)

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 2/25/05 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Luoma <lists at tntluoma.com> transmitted
the following electronic message:

>
>I am moving some video from VHS to DVD (to be played on a standard DVD 
>player).  I have a couple 45 minute videos.  Of course standard DVDs 
>can only hold 120 minutes, and 3x45 minutes = 135 minutes.  It would 
>seem reasonable to expect that I could compress it down that much w/o 
>causing too much picture loss.
>
>Does this get done in iMovie or iDVD or Toast?
>
>Does any app have a "take these files and make it fit onto this DVD" 
>setting?
>
>TjL

You could do the encoding with ffmpegX to subsequently burn with Toast
or, assuming that your DVD authoring app (iDVD 5, for example) can write
to dual-layer drives, you could create a disc image file for a
dual-layer (9GB) disc and then shrink it down and burn using Roxio
Popcorn (or shrink it down with something like DVD2OneX and then burn
with Toast).

-- 
Dennis R. Cohen