Burning video to DVDs - what discs?
I just got my powerbook and have a lot of "Lost" episodes to move... both in AVI and iTunes format. What discs do I need, and what's the most efficient way to burn it so it'll read both on my computer and on a TV?
Welcome to the Apple forums.
There's a current discussion about burning iTunes video to a DVD, see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=286906&tstart=0
On AVI's, you can use MPEG Streamclip (http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html) to convert them to digital video, then use DVD Imager (http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html) to create the DVD image for burning. Both programs are freeware. Or use a product like Toast.
We use TDK DVD's (have used both -R and +R) to burn DVD's that work on both computer and TV (was recently told to use -R for video, +R for data, however, have also seen recommendations of +R for video). They're available from our local Circuit City for $8 for 25, which seems to be about the going discounted rate. If you browse around the web, you'll find discussion on the quality of blank DVD's, their sources, what country they were manufactured in, etc. The TDK DVD's have consistently worked, and I can recommend them.
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View Solution.Hi,
Windows 7 has DVD Maker, it's not great but it does the work very well. Please refer to the following tutorial:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-za/windows7/burn-a-dvd-video-disc-with-windows-dvd-maker
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Hi all,
i am become desperate with idvd on mac mini3 with snow leopard 10.6.
i tried several ways.
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demuxed transportstream with ProjectX to several files (.mp2, m2v, ac3)
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it is able to get droped to the menu and a new entry appears.
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way 2
i have a h264 video from a canon camera.
tried to drop that to iDVD, works, test works again.
when trying to burn to dvd menu get converted fine, then iDVD tries to convert video, iDVD crashes.
way3
i imported the h264 from from canon camera in iMovie (it get optimized about 16min, the video has a length of 10min)
then i publish it to iDVD takes again 20min.
in iDVD i create the menu add some photos
preview is again ok,
when burning the project to disc the menu get created, when trying to convert the video (why again???): video cant get converted i can only click ok.
way4
opened the canon h264 video with streamclip to an mp4 file
dropped that video to iDVD, preview works again fine
burning to disc, menu gets created, when rendering video iDVD cant render the video i can only click ok.
it seems as linux-User i am uncapable to burn a video-DVD with macOS X
could someone give me the proper tip to get the video to disc?
best regards
thomasref. way 3 - don't publish imovie video to idvd. you lose too much resolution. As for the other issues, anyone else?
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