Can I burn a dvd with what I've got?

[Windspeaker]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. It may sound like a dumb question, but... I'm making a 'movie' with some friends and we're editing it on imovie. The thing is, we'd like to put it on dvd. The MacOSX can burn music cds, but apparently not dvds. We have a different computer tower with a burner, but we'd rather not take it out. Is there any way we can get it on dvd without buying a burner? Maybe a floppy? I pretty clueless! Thanks!

[lordsmurf]

Burn a DVD with a floppy ?

[bugster]

I hope what you mean is "can I transfer the finished movie from the machine on which it was edited, to the machine with the DVD burner?

Well, a floppy wouldn't really do, DVD is a bit bugger than that! Try networking the two machines together, this is probably your best bet.

[Gees]

If you don't have access (I should say easy access) to a DVD burner yet, look into SVCD in the Guides on the left. Or even VCD, but that's lower quality.

Once you've had fun with that, maybe someone will spring for another burner. When your ready there's a MAC Forum and some helpful people here that could get you started.

[Gees]

DVD is a bit bugger than that!

Bugster, was that intentional? or a happy accident? :cD

[housepig]

Is there any way we can get it on dvd without buying a burner? Maybe a floppy?

sure, if your other tower has a DVD burner in it. here's what you do:

- create an image file of your finished project on computer #1.
- using an archiving program like WinRAR or WinAce, compress the image file into a series of .rar or .ace files, each 1.4Mb.
- copy those files onto floppy discs, and transfer to computer #2 with the dvd burner.

it will take about 3,000 floppy discs to do a full dvd, although if they are in the same room, you could use one floppy 3,000 times.

good luck!

[CHAOS]

Well, he did say they had a cd burner, they could just transfer it with a few cd-r/rw's 8)
3000 times with a floppy ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jdizzy40]

Clueless?

[Gees]

The depressing thing is, that means they did not read one single word here before they asked that. :c*

Lot of that going around.

[bottle-necked]

Good idea housepig, except for the floppy deal. I think the CDRs is a better split. They could always email it(?)

[housepig]

@Chaos & Bottle-necked -

did he ask about cd-r? no. he asked about doing it with a floppy.

I mean, just between you, me and the lamppost, he could just swap a hard drive or swap a burner drive, but no! he wants to do it old-school.

[rits399]

This is hilarious. I was so stressed out and then Foo's burning shortcut post and this made me laugh. And doing it old school way is the best way to go, I say.

[andydd]

Yep..If i was in that position, Id swap a hard drive, in fact I had a removable HD for that purpose, I used to rip/edit a DVD at work n then take HD home n burn it to DVD.

But the floppy idea is cool though, assuming you used top DVD bitrate of 9.8 MBps youd have about 10th of a second of video on each disc..kewl !

[bugster]

DVD is a bit bugger than that!

Bugster, was that intentional? or a happy accident? :cD

I suppose you could call it a hapy accident, I never could type for toffee!

Well spotted Gees

[Gees]

It made me smile. :c) Big smile. :cD

You must be a Freudian typer. :c)

[Windspeaker]

ritz399, I'm glad some people got some laughs out of this!
It doesn't have to be with a floppy. (3,000 times is a little much....but thanks anyway) Swap hard drives? I could try that...would the hard drive be in any danger, b/c it's my friends computer and I tend to be accident prone, lol. Uh, bottle-necked, e-mail it? Wouldn't it be too big? Thanks everyone!

[andydd]

Well..it is poss to bugger up a hard drive by removing it although rather unlikely , they are generally pretty tuff, although I did bust one once by dropping it. But if you are worried about it then try using the CD-R method, 1 DVD-R = approx 6 CD-Rs

[lordsmurf]

Well..it is poss to bugger up a hard drive by removing it although rather unlikely , they are generally pretty tuff, although I did bust one once by dropping it. But if you are worried about it then try using the CD-R method, 1 DVD-R = approx 6 CD-Rs

Demagnetize yourself by holding the metal case BEFORE touching the drive, and try to not handle the drive too much.

[SLK001]

Demagnetize yourself by holding the metal case BEFORE touching the drive, and try to not handle the drive too much.

Demagnetize? You mean drain the static electricity off your body by touching the metal case BEFORE touching the drive, don't you?

[CHAOS]

@Chaos & Bottle-necked -

did he ask about cd-r? no. he asked about doing it with a floppy.

I mean, just between you, me and the lamppost, he could just swap a hard drive or swap a burner drive, but no! he wants to do it old-school.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!
Yep
Swapping drives was my first thought, along with why anyone would even ask this question
Just the floppy killed me

[ricky1756]

hey, its possible to do a dvd with a floppy, i started one 3 years ago, and im almost half way done

[BreakingTheSilence]

How big is the move might me a useful question. If it's a VERY short film, indeed put it on a floppy.

[ricky1756]

there isnt a video short enough to put it on a 1.44 meg floppy, unless its 2 or 3 seconds long

[overloaded_ide]

The MacOSX can burn music cds, but apparently not dvds. We have a different computer tower with a burner, but we'd rather not take it out. Is there any way we can get it on dvd without buying a burner?

Hmmm. Well I geuss unless it's a music DVD, burning to CD is out
He said he can burn MUSIC cds! Didn't say anything about data CDs.
That would be a good way to do it, though you would have to compress or split the .vob files. Each vob is probably 1gig, so you have to reduce those somehow to fit a CD, about 700mb.

Hopefully the tower he mentioned has a DVD burner, he did not say so, just a burner. But the Mac has a music CD burner, so who knows about the tower? Could it be an insence burner?

What kind of tower is it, can't you just setup a lan and transfer the files that way. I have 3 systems I transfer dvd files around over the lan here at home. The 4rth system I don't use for any video stuff though.
About $10-$20 for pci lan cards, don't know about ones for MAC, don't have one. Need one cable or a hub then. If you don't use a switch or hub, then I think it's a cross over cable you need. Normally my cards came with cables for the switch. That would be the best way!

Swapping the hard drive is not that bad, but maybe not something you should do! If you need to ask about damaging it, you probably don't know much about jumpers or ide conections. Not being insulting, just honest!

The other system has a drive already, so you'll need to change the jumper to slave if on the primary IDE, If the burner is there, then you go to the secondary IDE as master, unless something is there too, then you do secondary and change jumper to slave. That's on a PC, I know nothing about MACS.
Do Macs use SCII drives?? If so, and the other system is a PC, then it could be really hard and confusing going from SCII to IDE when swapping the drive

As for any thoughts of taking out the boot drive in the tower and installing this drive instead, Don't do that!! Could cause all kinds of problems!


BreakingTheSilence,

How big is the move might me a useful question. If it's a VERY short film, indeed put it on a floppy.

HA HA, surely you jest! And yes I jest called you surely. (old joke)
Very short? you mean like what 3 frames?? If this is DVD quality, you get what 1 maybe 2 frames per floppie

[Sailn]

or, just do th movie in iMovie. Output the movie back to a DV camcorder (I assume that you shot the movie on DV) then copy the editted movie back into iMovie on the other mac. You spend twice the length of the movie transfering via firewire. When you burn a dvd-r from iMovie on the mac you will realize that the time you spent transfering to and from the camcorder is nothing compaired with the time to covert DV to a suitable dvd compliant mpeg-2 format.

[Windspeaker]

I'll see if the Mac can burn data CDs... Sorry, the other tower has a DVD burner (and it's a PC). Yep, I don't know much about jumpers and ide connections at all. (Didn't I say I was clueless??)
Sailn, yeah, I used a DV camcorder, but the other computer doesn't have imovie, of course. As far as I know (not far), the DV can't put the whole movie on the PC without taking up too much space.
I'll try out some of the stuff, thanks everyone!

[bottle-necked]

I just came up with the perfect answer@@@@

Buy a firewire hard drive at Circuit City, take it home, put the video on it. Take it to the friends house, transfer the video to that computer, then take the firewire hard drive back and get a refund.!!!

See, pretty good answer (not for Circuit City though, duh)

I'll shut up now......

Oh Yea, that's 51 floppys per minute.

[lordsmurf]

I wonder if the user has both systems on a network (router) with Virtual PC on the Mac. I've done that. Works well.

Map a network drive in VPC of a Mac drive, then in VPC drag files from the mapped Mac drive to the shared drive in the actual PC.

I won't explain any further, but from what I've just said, the user should be able to get more info from the owner of the computer (I'm gonna gues we're not talking to the owners) or from the MAC forums. Sorry, too busy.