on 10/13/04 7:23 AM, ansberry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to learn to use iMovie to convert my family movies to DVD. I have > iMovie 2 running on my S900/G4/450 with about 800 megs of ram. I'm running OS > 10.2 Every time I try to export video to a movie, no matter what setting I > choose, it insists on saving it only to the start up drive. The startup drive > is limited to 8gigs by the OSX install problem. So there isn't enough room on > that drive to save the export. Does anybody know how I can get around this? > I need to save it to my scratch disk, which has about 30 gigs of space. It > doesn't show up as a choice in the menu. > > I'm also thinking about updating my iMovie and getting iDVD. Does anyone > havie experience with using these programs on a Umax machine? It looks like > there are some limitations. The requirements list on iDVD 4 is a G4/733. The > iDVD 3 says it requires a factory installed super drive. > > Thanks > Mike
First, some questions. When you say "export video to a movie" are you talking about capturing video to your hard drive or exporting already captured/edited video to a Quicktime movie? Generally, when you start an iMovie project you can determine which drive the project will be on and any video you capture will end up on that drive. Have you tried copying the whole project over to your 30GB scratch disk and then trying it? Regarding iDVD, I'm running DVD Studio Pro (which takes up far more resources) on an S900/G4/400 with 528 MB of RAM, and have successfully created several DVDs, albeit some of the processes are very slooooowww (you will need patience). There is a hack to trick iDVD into being able to burn to external DVD burners. Visit this link for some info: <http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=23370&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start =0> PS I'm assuming you're using an external DVD burner? -- Gregg Hey, Gregg. Thanks for the response. The movie is already captured and edited. I'm trying to export it to Quicktime DV. iMovie wouldn't let me choose any disk other than the 8 gig startup partition when I started the new project. I went ahead and captured a little of the video, then dragged the file to the larger partition. Then iMovie let me save it on that partition. I trashed the file on the 8gig partition so it wouldn't confuse things. So I was working from a file on the larger 30 gig partition. But it still won't let me save the exported movie to the larger partition. It insists on giving me only options on the 8 gig partition. I am trying to burn it to an external firewire dvd burner. At the risk of sounding stupid, where can I get a copy of DVD Studio Pro? Thanks Mike -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
