[MacDV] Making Chapters in video

[Marilyn Elhart]

Bless your heart, I think this is one of the most hopeful replies I have
read.  Newbies -me-have so much to learn but it can sound like there is
nothing but problems.  My goal is to turn Analog tapes into DVD' from old
Sony Camcorder through new Canon Digital to iMovie on a Mac and then it
started sounding really daunting.  I have one to the iMovie but have done
nothing further-just got it there tonight.  Any other tips or hints would be
so appreciated.  I do have and have read and underlined iMovieHD the Missing
Manual.  Have iLife 6.  Thanks, Marilyn


On 1/14/07 6:09 PM, "David Abramowitz" <david.abramowitz at verizon.net> wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something, the easiest thing to do is import the
> video into iMovie, make Chapter Markers for the chapters, then choose
> the Share option and pick iDVD as the target. This will open iDVD,
> which will automatically create chapters in the DVD based on the ones
> you made in iMovie. After that it's just a matter of selecting a
> theme in iDVD, and burning it. You'll either choose a theme which
> makes motion menus out of your chapters, or text menus. Having just
> completed converting our entire video library (old VHS tapes, 8mm
> tapes and digital tapes) into DVDs, I am very familiar with this
> process, and iMovie and iDVD make it pretty painless.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> Dave
> 
> On Jan 14, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Lanny Cotler wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Great question! I've been wanting to know this, too. I hope on this
>> list lurks a lovely solution.
>> 
>> L
>> 
>>> My apologies if this is not the right list.  If there is a better
>>> one,
>>> please let me know where to try instead.
>>> 
>>> I've got video that I've recorded from my TV via EyeTV.  It's
>>> roughly 2.5 hours.
>>> 
>>> I want to put it on a Dual Layer DVD.
>>> 
>>> I would like to divide it into 6 "chapters" (i.e. if you press the >|
>>> button on the remote it will jump ahead to the next chapter or |< for
>>> the previous one).  The chapters are not of identical length (i.e. 10
>>> minutes for one, 35 minutes for the second, etc)
>>> 
>>> So far the only way I know how to do this is to actually make
>>> completely different videos in Toast and just set the DVD to play all
>>> of them.
>>> 
>>> Is this the best way to do it?  Are there other options?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> TjL
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