[MacDV] Making Chapters in video

[David Abramowitz]

I don't think it can, no. What you can do is use Apple's plugin to  
QuickTime, import the MPEG-2 video into QuickTime and then export it  
to MPEG-4, then you're good to go. The Apple utility is here:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/

Not free, but an option.

- Dave

On Jan 15, 2007, at 5:09 PM, TjL wrote:

>
> Can iDVD deal with MPEG2 natively?  If not is there some way to trick
> it into doing so?  I thought I remembered that it can't but read
> somewhere about a way to massage it... but I haven't used iDVD for so
> long I didn't save the article.
>
> My EyeTV recorder (some sort of Plextor thing) only does MPEG2 IIRC.
> I do have a Canopus ADVC.  I guess I could use that to get DV, but DV
> is so huge plus the encoding time was sooooo long (Well, I have to
> admit to only having used it on my 1.5 G4 Powerbook w/ 1GB of RAM... I
> now have a 2.0Ghz MacBook w/ 2GB of RAM).
>
> I thought that iDVD could not deal with MPEG2.  I could be wrong
> (maybe iLife 2007 will include this?)
>
> I'd check myself but I'm stuck on a Windows machine (*cough gag  
> spit*).
>
> TjL
>
> ps - many thanks for the extremely helpful replies.  This project is
> just for my enjoyment (a recording of the UF-OSU college football
> national championship game which I want to store for the ages :-) so
> I'm not worried about others' preferences for this project.
>
> Toast does automatically insert chapter marks, I think ever 5 minutes
> or so, and it can be turned off if you explore the advanced menus
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