A newbie's .DV to DVD Questions

[case 5]

Hello, I am new to these boards, in fact, new to video. I have a G5 Mac and I started backing up my old dvds with dvd2onex and I find the quality awesome (I am very easy to please). I have recorded some television shows into a .DV format. How do I encode these files to have a good quality comparable to DVD2oneX quality. The .DV size I usually get for an hour would be around 10 GBs, and I would love to stick around 4 hours into a DVD maybe even 5 or 6 hours onto it. Can someone walk me through and help me with my project

[terryj]

First, I will need some specifics.
1. Do you have any Authoring Programs for DVD,
such as DVDSP2 ( DVD Studio Pro 2), or iDVD?

2. do you have any video editing software,
such as FCP4 ( Final Cut Pro 4), FCPExpress,
or iMovie?

3. Do you have QT PRO6? (Quicktime Pro 6)

these will be essential to get you started.
Post back.

[Frobozz]

I'll add another question:

What are you using to capture the DV from your TV?

If what you want is four to six hours of TV on a DVD, the best thing to do is buy a standalone DVD recorder. You can always rip those DVDs to your Mac for trimming and reburning to new DVDs, and the low bitrate MPEG2 files will already be created.

[case 5]

Hi, I have idvd, imovie, and QT6 . . . Thanks for the response

[case 5]

Hello? Is anyone out there?

[pixeljammedia]

RNC, creator of Missing Mpeg Tools has an easy iMovie (.DV) to DVD solution here: http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/.Public/MMT-EZ.zip

Just point it to the referenced movie in your iMovie project folder and it will create DVD or VCD files. Worked fine on a quick test on my comp.

[case 5]

Thank you, Ill try it

[brett]

ime, recording tv into .dv and then reencoding to .mpg will look NOTHING like a dvd -> dtox converision. it will suck in comparison. if at the end of all this you feel the same way, find a way to record tv straight into .mpg. like a replay tv or the ads mpeg hw capture thingy. but if you think everything looks fine, more power to ya -- what works for you is the key.