<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 4, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Preston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">thanks! Does it take a long time to burn a DVD this size?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR> Yup. Hard to say exactly what to expect since your Mac's Processor will be the major factor in speed. Also your burner speed will change your time as well.</DIV> <DIV>NOTE*</DIV> <DIV> Best to burn all you want the first time. As you will NOT want to render your project every couple days when you decide you really do want to give a copy to Aunt Ellie and Uncle Buck. (you can always use apple's disk utility or Toast to copy your project DVD on a later date w/o rendering)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can use the "save as disc image" menu option to keep an image copy handy</DIV><DIV>It codes and saves an image of your DVD. Decompress, and mount it, you can play it.</DIV><DIV> You can then delete the project file and save lot's of space and burn as many as you want with disc copy, burner, toast, whatever.</DIV><DIV> Works good for me.</DIV><DIV>J</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"> Also...do you know how to get rid of old iDVD files to make space on hard drive?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Find them. Toss them in the trash, and empty trash. Won't do you any good till you empty.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">thanks again!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>np</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>-Preston</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">MacDV mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>