How to burn DVD's from iMovies ?

[piisfish 140]

Yes I have a Mac, and yes I can't use it properly...

I edited videos on iMovie, but they seem too big to burn on a dvd..

can anybody help ?

iMac G5
video is around 30minutes, imovie file is around 25Gb

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[quade 4]

You're right! 25Gb is far too much to put on a DVD. Most standard DVDs are 4.5 or thereabouts. So, for standard DVD playback, the files are compressed. If, on the other hand, you're asking about backing up the files for later editing and NOT for DVD playback, we can cover that later, but I'm going to assume you want to burn a standard DVD so that you can play it back on a standard DVD player.

If you're using all the bundled software on a Mac (and the current versions), you should also have a program called iDVD.

From within iMovie, pull down the "Share" menu to iDVD.

It should be fairly obvious from there.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[murrays 0]

In addition to what Quade told you, you may find these Apple tutorials to be helpful in getting started with iMovie and iDVD.

Have fun!

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Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

[freefallcrab 0]

iDVD only works if you have a Superdrive IRC. I just bought a used G4 without Superdrive (doh!) and am having a lot of trouble getting my vids onto DVD. I have a Sony DVD recorder that usually sits under my TV to record TV programmes and watch movies on (ie not a computer peripheral external DVD burner) but my Toast 5 programme doesnt recognise it through SVHS/SVHS or firewire. A buddy tells me I need a DVI-SVHS cable. Anyone else had this experience?

Use your wings Johnny....

[MB38 0]

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iDVD only works if you have a Superdrive IRC.

Nope. While I forget if you can burn DVDs on an external drive from *within* iDVD, you can simply save your project as a Disk Image and use any standard app [Toast... or even Disk Utility... that's in the Utilities folder on the machine already] to burn it.

I really don't know what I'm talking about.

[stratostar 5]

You could always export it and pass it through your camera to your recorder.
Just make sure you protect your tape so as to not record onto the tape.
I have had to do this in order to record with a unit the mac did recognise, worked just fine.

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[freefallcrab 0]

MB38 and stratostar thanks for your comments.

I forget if you can burn DVDs on an external drive from *within* iDVD

My read on this is that you can't. The 'Disk Image' idea is a good one, especially if you want to make additional copies in the future (it saves all the encoding time I think) but it still relies on the Mac software - Toast in my case - recognising the burner (which mine does not whichever way I connect it.

Strat - I just tried sending the movie back to the camera (and I know that my DVD recorder recognises the camera through iLink/Firewire). Trouble is the G4 processor was overwhelmed by the file size (it was a VERY big file compiling a seasons jumps) and ground to a halt. Gonna chop it up into chapters and send them back to the camera a chapter at a time.

Thanks for your inputs. Piisfish sorry if I hijacked your thread

Use your wings Johnny....

[stratostar 5]

I said that, because we have a DVD recorder the MAC don't see it, but because we already have the cam pluged in to import, we just send it out to recorder via the cam.
This is with TDM vids, so there short.
But it works fine as long ass you remember to protect your tape, unless you want it on tape too.

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