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DVD without DVD Studio Pro or iDVD??
Hey all,
I have friend who doesn’t want to use iDVD or DVDSP to burn their disc. They also don’t have Toast to burn with….D’oh!!!
Question is: How can the poor man burn a DVD video without using these tools? I don’t have the ability to test any theories at work since I am too busy but I thought maybe ripping a MPEG-4 file of his video. Then just cheat by making a VIDEO_TS folder to contain the file – then burn that folder using the desktop burn option that the OS uses?
Would this work??
I told him to get Toast as that would be easiest but I wonder if my solution might also work? Any suggestions other than use iDVD, DVDSP or Toast, as I know those all work, just not in this unfortunate situation…..
Thanks
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6 Replies
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Why wouldnt he use IDVD.
You can make it look totally uncheesy.And its included with every OS, well the newer ones
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Thats what I told him – From what I could gather he didn’t like how compressed his video looked. He is trying to do 40+ minutes and I guess it just looks like crap.
I don’t iDVD (prefer DVDSP) but I thought there was a way to use whatever compression you exported at and not use the iDVD “compress/encode” that it uses when importing a QT movie. Isn’t there a way to do that?
Again, don’t have the iLife Suite here at work…they don’t want me to play with other toys!!!
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just make an autoplay disc in dvdSP…its just as hard to make one in idvd, and it’ll look better..
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Ask him to check the preferences in iDVD and see if it’s set to “Best Quality.”
Really, it should come out looking quite nice. I’m not sure if something’s going wrong, but he should check that first.
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As far as I understand, IDVD and studio pro uses the same encoding,
they are both made by the same master minds.At least the last 2 or 3 versions, I think
I have been using DVDSP for the past 3 years, hardly ever use IDVD.
I dont ever remember having quality issues in IDVD with under 60 minutes videos.
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That’s something else, Robert. What version is he using? Is it something like version 2? The more current versions have always looked just fine to me. If he is using an old version than buying the new iLife is probably the best bet, and the same price as Toast would be!
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