Using My iDVD

[The Sumerian]

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I've been a filmmaker for 10 years, and I've decided to join the digital age. I just bought a G5 with dual processing and Final Cut Express 2. I have a few things that are in mpeg format. On my iDVD it only allows .mov files. Can someone help me? I tried some called ffmpeg, but it didn't seem to work. I have no doubt it failed due to my lack of computer skills. Could someone walk me through burning mpegs or perhaps changing mpegs to .mov files for iDVD?

[redwudz]

You should probably post this in the Mac forum, maybe a mod can move it. But, welcome to our forum. We have a few Mac fanatics here. Just hang around a little while and they'll come out of the woodwork.

[Capmaster]

Moving to the Mac forum ...

[OmegaSupreme]

iDvd does not accept MPEG1 or MPEG2 files.

Option 1 is to export the file with quicktime to DV with 48kHz audio and then import the resultant file into iDvd.

Option 2 is to get DVD Studio Pro ($499) which accepts MPEG files and is a great authoring app.

Option 3 is to get Sizzle (Free) which accepts MPEG2 files.

[Frobozz]

You probably should get Toast 6. It can burn your MPEG2 files to a video DVD. It also can export the MPEG2 to DV for use in FCE and iDVD.

[The Sumerian]

Thanks for the help

[The Sumerian]

Does Sizzle need an application? I tried doiing another .dmg file before and said it needed something to open with and I didn't know what application it needed. Does Sizzle have the same issue? Or Toast 6 for that matter?

[The Sumerian]

Oh wait I see Toast 6 is not free, nevermind. But still does Sizzle need an application?

[pixeljammedia]

Use Disc Utility from your Applications>Utilities folder to mount or burn Sizzle images.

[The Sumerian]

Thanks for the help