You're exactly right. With iDVD, you export as a disc image.
... Richard
On 12/28/05, Susan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Richard--
Something else... When I create a project for a DVD, I save it to
an .iso file on my hard drive. That initial rendering takes "the
hour" or more that you're talking about... but once you have an .iso
image for a DVD, you can then just copy that image to the DVD itself
without having to render each time... I'm sure Mac must have an
option like this too...
Susan
http://vlog.kitykity.com
--- In [email protected], Richard Show <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> I think I figured out the answer to my question. Use "current
settings" ...
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 12/23/05, Richard Show <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Bill!
> >
> > One simple question ... when you say you do the export quicktime
do you
> > leave it at "default settings"?
> >
> > On 12/23/05, Bill Streeter < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is what I do to make a DVD with iDVD.
> > >
> > > I save an uncompressed quicktime file from FCP
> > > (file/export/quicktime). This is very quick because the file is
just
> > > transcoded into a QT wrapper. The files are large but not to
> > > worry ... I'll explain in a minute.
> > >
> > > I then create my iDVD project which you obviously know how to
do.
> > > When you get your project together and hit the burn button iDVD
> > > creates your menus and then encodes your files into MPEG2 format
> > > that is significantly smaller than your uncompressed quicktime
> > > source files but DVD quality. So if you have say 10 1 gig clips
that
> > > total 60 minutes in playing time, they won't be that big by the
time
> > > iDVD is done with them and burned them onto a DVD.
> > >
> > > Also iDVD takes a long time to process this stuff so just be
patient
> > > and let it go overnight or something.
> > >
> > > One more thing Richard, if you don't have a large external
firewire
> > > drive you might want to consider getting one. It's almost
essential
> > > for working with FCP. You can set it to be your scratch disk
when
> > > you edit and you should get a little better performance from
your
> > > machine. Also it saves your system disk from a lot of wear and
tear.
> > > And it's really handy for backing up things and doing little
> > > projects like this where you're going to be creating a lot of
large
> > > files.
> > >
> > > Bill Streeter
> > > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
> > > www.lofistl.com
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], Richard Show
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I know this is a video blog list, but, beings that I've never
been
> > > > particularly on topic, and beings that some of you may want
to do
> > > this same
> > > > thing with your vlogs, I have some iDVD questions.
> > > >
> > > > I had this really great idea, which is that I would make a
> > > Christmas DVD for
> > > > friends and family members gifts. (Mainly since I can't get
them
> > > to watch my
> > > > videos on the web :).
> > > >
> > > > It just so happens that I have about 1 3/4 hours of video
total
> > > that I have
> > > > made since the richard show started, and the iDVD 5 has this
> > > option for
> > > > highest quality and 120 minutes, so I'm thinking I can fit
> > > everything on
> > > > there.
> > > >
> > > > First of all, I figured I should start with something better
than
> > > my
> > > > freevlog compressed .mov files for the web, which would be a
> > > hassle, since I
> > > > used 4 different editing programs (premier elements, premier,
> > > iMovie, and
> > > > FCP), and what I saved is generally a project file to compress
> > > from. So I
> > > > started in final cut pro and tried exporting uncompressed 10
bit
> > > NTSC 48
> > > > kHz. This took a long time and would create multiple gigabyte
> > > files for each
> > > > of my 21 videos, and with iDVD all these files have to be on
one
> > > drive. Then
> > > > I tried the default quicktime for downloading to LAN, and this
> > > took an even
> > > > longer time, but created much smaller files. (I did this with
a
> > > couple of
> > > > movies as an experiment.)
> > > >
> > > > So I pretty much gave up on that for now, and got into iDVD
and
> > > made a
> > > > simple 2-level menu and added all the movies (in their
quicktime
> > > free vlog
> > > > compression setting format) and clicked burn and based on the
> > > progress right
> > > > now, it looks like the first DVD may be done about January 1.
(OK,
> > > I'm
> > > > exagerating, but it looks like it may be, like, at least an
hour,
> > > or more,
> > > > for one DVD to burn.)
> > > >
> > > > (Oh yeah, I have a 1.67 GHz power book Gr with 1 GB SDRAM)
> > > >
> > > > My questions:
> > > >
> > > > 1) Should I go to the trouble to recompress or export in
better
> > > format? (If
> > > > so, what format/settings?)
> > > > 2) If I do recompress/export and make bigger files is that
going
> > > to make the
> > > > iDVD burning process even slower?
> > > > 2) Is there a way to make it faster?
> > > > 3) Feel free to answer any other questions I should have
asked :)
> > > >
> > > > ... Richard, ho ho ho
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Richard
> > > > http://www.richardshow.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard
> > http://www.richardshow.com
> >
>
>
>
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> Richard
> http://www.richardshow.com
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