iDVD5 lacks Dl support

[willrob]

Apparently the rumor sites got it wrong. Reading the reports from MacWorld, it seems that iDVD won't be supporting Dual Layer writers—unless none of the correspondants picked up that detail. I'll have to wait till Apple's web site starts hyping the new products. iMovieHD seems an over reach; would someone spend close to 4 grand for a HD camcorder and then edit with iMovie?

[deadsierra]

If iMovie is complete enough, yes. And many college/university students may have access to HD camcorders and want to edit the footage on their own computers.

[tgpo]

Someone will probably make a hack for it just like external drives.

[Frobozz]

iDVD 5 will now burn to any single-layer media (except DVD-RAM) and will save fully-encoded disc image files. It just keeps getting better. To me the most notably lacking feature is it still doesn't encode AC-3 audio. I think that is more practical than dual-layer media.

[Manny C]

I'm sure dual-layer will be supported soon.

[Manny C]

What I really want to know, is if it will be possible to create a true 16x9 widescreen dvd from traditional DV footage that was shot in 4x3 with my camera in letterbox (fake widescreen) mode.

[willrob]

Manny:

I don't know the answer to your question, but you might want to search through

http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/explore.html

Isn't the "widescreen" format from your camra simply a crop? IDVD might be able to make a DVD from it, but the screen enlarged version could be less quality imagewise.

[Manny C]

Yes, the widescreen on my camera is nothing more than fullscreen footage cropped with black bars at the top and bottom (not REAL widescreen).

[sjk]

To me the most notably lacking feature is it still doesn't encode AC-3 audio. I think that is more practical than dual-layer media.

If forced to choose one I'd favor AC-3 encoding over DL media support.