Edit and burning Home Movies to DVD

[earlygrace]

What does everyone use to edit the Home movies? iMoive I assume?

and use iDVD to master a disk with a menu and burn it?

do these to apps work hand in hand?

what else do ppl use?

[pants]

i use fcp for editing and dsp for dvd's, cause that's what i use at work. going to any of the i-programs from those has been painful, so that's why i don't use any of them.

[B Tonkin]

On the Mac the best way to go with editing movies is Final Cut Express... providing you're willing to learn the art of it. iMovie is good, but if you like editing movies there is so many restrictions with it... ie. iMovie is made for the average joe who can't be bothered editing with FCE.

The same argument goes for iDVD and DVD Studio Pro, and that you can't do multiple angles, subtitles, surround sound etc. with iDVD.

The good thing about the "i" suite is that they now talk to each other. iMovie 3 will search through your iTunes folder for MP3's that you wanna play in the movie and it will export a file ready for use with iDVD. It's just a case of sitting back and clicking a few buttons.

[jchansen]

For more info, you may want to go to the Apple discussion groups on these applications. Many people use them, some have problems, some don't. I prefer iMovie to capture with, because it is simpler than FCP and it displays the clip's date.

http://discussions.info.apple.com

[earlygrace]

So if I capture with iMovie (FCP does not seem to work for capturing), what would be the best and quickest way to get my finished I movie into DVD Studio Pro?

iDVD seems easy but it only seems to give me the option of have 1 hour of video on a disk when I can easly hold more the double that.

so how do I get from iMovie to a format that I can re-encode to a lower bitrate?

tanks

[jchansen]

it already is. If you're using imovie3, look in your project folder. There is a nice little movie; open it, and export to mpeg2. Or export directly from imovie to mpeg2.

[earlygrace]

great but I have iMovie2, no big deal, I will just use iDVD. Tried saving as mpg2 in Quicktime 6 but DVDStudio pro has a hard time previewing it, says that the BitRate is to high. huh

[jchansen]

Then lower your bitrate. Audio+video can't be higher than 9.8, so that means video alone shouldn't go above about 8.