B/W G3 & house full of non-DVD imacs, want to go to Tiger, ? FW DVD?

Hello,
I've searched the forum and apologize if this question is redundant, but I'm requesting help. I've got a B/W G3 running OS9 which has a CDR drive. I also have three networked G3&4 iMacs running OS9 and a clamshell iBook running OS9. Only one of iMacs has a DVD drive, the rest are CDR or CDRW.
Will a firewire DVD such as a "FANTOM DRIVES PREMIER 16X DUAL LAYER DVD+/-RW FIREWIRE DRIVE" allow me to load OSX onto each computer? (I've been planning to add DVD storage anyhow.) Will there be problems with booting from the Firewire drive if I am able to load OSX?
I am aware of Apple's program that allows me to swap the OSX DVD for CD media; however, since I have to install OSX on five different computers will I have to purchase five DVD's? And, it says something about limiting the DVD-CD swap request to one per household.
Thanks for any guidance.
B/W G3 Mac OS 9.1.x

Edwin,
Thanks for the reply. I did figure on purchasing the family pack.
How about the quetion about the DVD firewire, though. Is that an option?
Thanks,
Jeff
B/W G3 Mac OS 9.1.x

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Without blaming Apple, it is a DigitalRightsManagment
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I personally record movies from TV, legally. And my
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that I burn on a data-disc, and I don't use
DVD-Player.
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The image on the original DVD is clearly HD and looks great, without any bouncing, jittering, etc. Also, the DVD app i used to watch the original on my computer is the same as I used to watch my own burned DVD... So PE11 has clearly degraded the image, something is going on in the export.
Another thing worth mentioning is that as I look at the video footage in PE11 on full screen, I can see that even in PE11, the video quality is not the same as the original DVD and there are obvious artifacts and just nonsense in the picture... Not necessarily as bad as the burn, but similar.
I've done a little reading on these forums about .VOB files... I don't fully understand them. Is it that the image is messed up from the beginning with an import from DVD? IS there a way to do what I want (take hiqual video from a DVD, put a menu on it, then burn it back onto DVD?) with PE11? Or is the only way to make a burn from the original source file before it was burned the first place?
computer specs:
lenovo P500
Intel Core i7 3520M 2.90 gHz
8gb RAM
windows 8 64-bit

LorcanPMiller
Please get a MediaInfo readout of your VOB at the onset to determine what you have, especially standard or widescreen.
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
Special Interest: Frame size, Frame rate, Display 4:3 or 16:9, Scan Type and Scan Order for which I am expecting Interlaced and Lower Field First.
Here is my take on your situation.
1. The Canon 6D can capture 1080p video (1920 x 1080 16:9 at 29.97 or 30 frames per second), but from what you wrote somewhere along the line someone put that through a video "authoring" program to convert it into DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc (720 x 480). At this point, we need to know standard or widescreen. Both standard and widescreen will be 720 x 480, but the widescreen will have a 16:9 flag included to stretch the video for display after encoding.
Question:
a. What is on that DVD disc....just a file name VTS_01_1 (file size 481 MB) or two folders named OpenDVD and VIDEO_TS? If you have a file, for Premiere Elements 11, you would use Add Media/Files and Folders to get the file in Project Assets. If you have the DVD disc in the DVD burner tray, you would use Add Media/DVD Camera or Computer Drive to rip the VOB and get the VOB into the project.
b.Your project is going to get messed up and confusing, if you let the program set the project preset for you. You will most likely end up with the default NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30 which is inappropriate for your project. So, before thinking or acting on Get Media....open a new project, go to File Menu/New/Project and set the project preset in the New Project dialog for NTSC DV Standard or NTSC DV Widescreen depending on what you find beforehand about the properties of your VOB MediaInfo Then use Add Media/and the appropriate choice based on what I wrote above about VOB already ripped vs DVD-VIDEO ripping.
c. When you have your VOB on the TImeline with the appropriate project setting, right click the file in Project Assets and verify Premiere Elements 11's interpretation of the file frame rate and other to determine if it agrees with the MediaInfo readout. It would be very unusual if there was a differnce, but...
d. Whether you have a NTSC or PAL project, all the SD DVD Templates have a frame size of 720 x 576 (PAL sizing). The ones tagged HD have a 1440 x 1080 frame size. Right now I would advise you to stay with the SD ones, but not be afraid to experience with a HD choice if it appealing and see what happening during encoding.
e. In all this, you did not say what the duration is of this 481 MB VOB file. The standard DVD disc is spec'd at 4.7 GB/120 min. That 4.7 GB in reality is 4.3 GB. You will frequently see the recommendation "for best results, do not exceed 90 minutes on this standard type disc". When you have your DVD disc in the DVD burner tray and are in the burn dialog of Publish+Share/Disc/DVD make sure to check the Quality Area of the burn dialog for the Space Required and Bitrate reading (8.00 Mbps is the max reading).
Based on what you wrote, I suspect that most of your problems were related to incorrect project settings. By the way, if you want to get rid of a menu button text, most of the time double click the text to bring up the Change Text dialog, highlight the text there, hit the delete key of the computer, then hit the space bar or enter key.
If you are replacing the menu's audio, max 30 sec with looping. If you use motion buttons in the menu, max 4.9 seconds. After you get the details of the project setup OK, we can focus in more on the menus...number of Timeline markers etc, and customization of the menus from within the program.
Lots of details. The answers and successes will be in the details. All the contributors here have given you a lot of ideas for exploration and experimentation.
Please do not hesitate to ask if you need clarification on anything that I have written.
Looking forward to learning of your progress.
Thanks.
ATR

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http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/idvd.html
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IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40. (works with all Mac OS 10.5 and newer.)
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
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I happen to have the install DVD's for my new macbook and wondered if there was anyway that I could use those to install onto the older imac?
Thanks
Garry

If you can wait that long, the Family Pack (5 licenses) of Leopard will be out in October so you can upgrade both the MacBook and the iMac G4 (assuming it meets the minimum specs) at the same time.
cheers
mrtotes

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(I'm not sure if this sould go here, but don't know where it would fit better)
I have a iMacG3 and I want to upgrade it to Tiger (leopard isn't going to work, the processor is only 400MHz)
but I don't know what sould be a reasonable price for the retail DVD
I want to get the DVD but I can't even find it and I don't feel like paying more then it's worth, especially sins I don't have that much anyway
also I was wondering
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Also check this web store http://www.lacomputercompany.com/cgi-bin/rpcart/index.cgi?command=dispitem&type= sku&sku=19521
Possible Alternative if you are currently using Panther 10.3 – Do a Google search for Tiger 10.4 Upgrade DVD . It will upgrade your 10.3 to 10.4, but it doesn’t contain the full retail Tiger installer. Should be cheaper than the retail Tiger install DVD.
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Look at this link Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Installing Software Support Page
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You can also download the Tiger Installation and Setup Guide
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When you upgrade the OS, do it via Archive & Install. See About the Archive and Install feature http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710
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I could not find out the same problems in net work.
Does anybody know good solution?
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N.B.

In fact, this is the most disappointing feature in Leopard.
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