[MacDV] A Simple 115 Minute Presentation

[James Asherman]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Patty Winter wrote:

>> From: "T.L. Miller" <tlmiller at mac.com>
>>
>> Recently I shot 115 minutes of a presentation on MiniDV tape and did
>> minor editing in iMovie HD. I figured burning onto a 2 hr DVD would be
>> easy -- wrong!!!
>
> Yeah, not so easy with the 90-minute limit in iDVD!

Easy with iDVD 5.
Really easy to make two movies in iMovie and two discs.

>
>> I tried using iDVD, but it wanted me to use Themes and it included
>> annoying music and all I wanted was a straight-forward copy of the 115
>> minutes that would play incommon DVD players.
>
> If you just want to send the video to a DVD recorder, I have a 
> solution--
> except I think you'll need an external FireWire recorder to use it. 
> It's
> SimpleVideoOutX from Apple. A nice person on this list told me about it
> a few months ago, and it works great. (Especially if you download the
> little tutorial PDF from O'Reilly.) However, I don't think it works
> with built-in DVD recorders.


If you have a firewire DVD recorder (as I do) why on earth couldn't you 
just play it out from
iMovie ?
What is the big deal here ?


>
>
>> Some said to
>> "export" out of iMovie, but there was no "export" function that I 
>> could
>> find.
>
> I don't have a recent version of iMovie, much less iMovie HD, but has
> the Export option really disappeared from the File menu?


It is called "Share"
You will never figure this stuff out if you don't try some stuff, maybe 
read the help files or something.
You "share" out a DV movie and grab it with the mouse(after it renders) 
and drop it into the iDVD screen.
Cheez and crackers.


>
>
> Patty
>
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