making DVD from .MOV files

[rokaem]

Sorry to bother you with this but I am new to video. I am using a G4, 1400 GHZ, 1gig RAM, OS X 10.3.9 and have Stream Clip 1.7 installed. I also have Quicktime Pro 7 with the MPEG converter. I have imported some movie footage which I intended to burn to DVD but my files are huge. One of them is about 4 gig; the others are 2.25 to 3.5 gig. I used the basic tutorial I found on your web site as a guide. I chose the "Export to Quicktime" option and withing the Movie Exporter "settings" window I chose the following:
H.264 Encoder
Quality + 100%
2 Pass
MPEG-4 AAC
27.97 frame rate
640 X 352 (unscaled)
Use B-Frames
Interlaced Scaling = OFF (unchecked)

The footage looks good, except that is is no longer wide screen (I don't know why, but I could live with it), but the files are to big to put more than one one a DVD. I am also not sure that .MOV is the best format for me to have picked since I want to be able to view this on a TV.

Can you help me out please.

Thank you.
rokaem@comcast.net

[Frobozz]

Read through the What is DVD? link at the top left of the forum. You'll see the specs for a video DVD. I'm presuming you want to play the video you want to watch using a DVD player connected to your TV. You'll need software that can encode MPEG 2 video, can author that to a VIDEO_TS folder, and burn it to a UDF formatted DVD. Am I off-base with what you're trying to do?

[albloom]

Buy Toast 7 Titanium and follow the directions (pages 68-70 in
my manual) for making a DVD-Video.

Huge isn't the big bother. Toast will compress as needed.