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Making A DVD

by iburkhart13 Feb 26, 2006 3:53AM PST

Hey guys im kinda new to the Mac scene(5 months) and I am trying to burn a movie on to a dvd so that i can play it on a dvd player and on my mac. I have OS X 10.4.5 and have a superdrive with idvd. I dont need any fancy menus or anything like that but I want a main screen so that it doesnt play when I first put the dvd in the player. Any help is much appericated.


Ian

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Is this a movie made with iMovie?
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Feb 26, 2006 5:09AM PST

If so, this is a simple problem.
With iMovie open and your movie loaded, click the iDVD button and move along from there.
Use the help feature of iDVD, or check out the tutorials at the Apple site. You will find that it is easy to drag a theme into the window, create a Play button, add music and other neat stuff.

If this is NOT a movie made with iMovie, hopefully it is not a movie made by a well known film studio.

You didn't mention what version of iDVD you have.


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No, its not made in imovie
by iburkhart13 Feb 26, 2006 5:30AM PST

No, its not made in imovie. They are in .mpg and .avi formats and I have iMovie as a part of ilife 2005 version.


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Now your problem is
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Feb 26, 2006 6:27AM PST

how to convert an AVI and MPEG into something that can be put on a DVD and be read by a DVD player and treated like a "real" DVD movie.
I'm not sure how you are going to do that, although there must be software out there that can do it.
Playing AVI files on a Mac has always been problematic. Can you play these files now, and if so, what are you using to view them with?

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YES
by iburkhart13 Feb 26, 2006 9:40AM PST

As of right now i can play these files on my iBook using Quicktime with the WMV plug-in.

Ian

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Export from QuickTime
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Feb 26, 2006 8:45PM PST

as a DV file and take it into iMovie.
From there you can put it into iDVD with the effects that you wanted.
Or
Take the DV file and put it into iDVD without going via iMovie.

Launch iDVD and play with it for a while and you will soon see how to achieve the desired effect.

The DV file, any file, needs to be rendered into something that a DVD player can handle

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And you may need to upgrade QT
by Dan Filice Feb 27, 2006 4:44AM PST

I believe to enable the "Export" function within Quicktime, you may need to spend $30 and upgrade to Quicktime Pro. This will be the best $30 you can spend. By the way, QT Pro also allows you to record from any source plugged into your Firewire connection without using iMovie, and Pro will allow you to save or export the file in a number of formats.

By the way, if you are using existing QT movies or .AVI movies, what is their size? Most of these are smaller than full-screen, so when you convert these back into DV files, they may be expanded from 320 X 240 up to 720 X 486, resulting in a degraded image. Also, once you get QT Pro, you may find another FREE program called MPEG Streamclip to be very helpful. It will take many MPEG movies and easily convert them to other formats including demuxing audio that has been imbedded into an MPEG movie (typical of movies taken with digital still cameras).

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