Recording Video onto DVD
TaliesinSoft
onto DVDs in a format that will plsy on a television set. What format do the
files have to be in to accomplish this?
Many thanks in advance for suggestions and such.
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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- talies...@me.com
Chris Ridd
> I have severl .mov files created via QuickTime X. I would like to burn
> them onto DVDs in a format that will plsy on a television set. What
> format do the files have to be in to accomplish this?
>
> Many thanks in advance for suggestions and such.
DVDs use MPEG-2, so if they were in that format it would help.
But wouldn't you just drag them into an iDVD project and let iDVD do
the figuring out and transcoding for you?
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Chris
TaliesinSoft
<7o7gpkF...@mid.individual.net>):
Thanks for the response!
My movie is currently in .mov format. All I want to do is to convert it to
the format that when placed on a DVD will play on a television. A quick look
at iDVD seems to suggest that it is intended for the actual creation of the
content, not just transferal of content from .mov. Am I missing something?
I'm going to continue exploring iDVD and perhaps I'll find what I'm looking
for.
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TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> wrote:
> I have severl .mov files created via QuickTime X. I would like to burn them
> onto DVDs in a format that will plsy on a television set. What format do the
> files have to be in to accomplish this?
get roxio toast, select dvd-video, drag the movie to the window and
click burn. it will do the rest.
BreadW...@fractious.net
> My movie is currently in .mov format. All I want to do is to convert
> it to the format that when placed on a DVD will play on a
> television. A quick look at iDVD seems to suggest that it is
> intended for the actual creation of the content, not just transferal
> of content from .mov. Am I missing something? I'm going to continue
> exploring iDVD and perhaps I'll find what I'm looking for.
You want to use iDVD. A DVD for playing on your TV is more than
just a filesystem with a video file on it. iDVD allows you to
add all the structures around that video file, or keep those
structures to a minimum (ie. don't bother with an intro screen
or video, don't put any menu in place, etc). But it's really so
trivial to have at least the menu that I highly recommend it.
Both Toast and iDVD will create a very simple menu if you let
them with almost no effort. But in both cases, the actual
content - the video in question - comes from another source
such as a .mov file or iMovie or image files.
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TaliesinSoft
article <yob638h...@panix1.panix.com>):
> TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> writes:
>
>> My movie is currently in .mov format. All I want to do is to convert it
>> to the format that when placed on a DVD will play on a television. A
>> quick look at iDVD seems to suggest that it is intended for the actual
>> creation of the content, not just transferal of content from .mov. Am I
>> missing something? I'm going to continue exploring iDVD and perhaps I'll
>> find what I'm looking for.
>
> You want to use iDVD. A DVD for playing on your TV is more than just a
> filesystem with a video file on it. iDVD allows you to add all the
> structures around that video file, or keep those structures to a minimum
> (ie. don't bother with an intro screen or video, don't put any menu in
> place, etc). But it's really so trivial to have at least the menu that I
> highly recommend it. Both Toast and iDVD will create a very simple menu if
> you let them with almost no effort. But in both cases, the actual content
> - the video in question - comes from another source such as a .mov file or
> iMovie or image files.
The .mov file I have is complete as is and I don't want the resulting DVD to
contain anything else such as an intro. So my question is how to have iDVD
simply convert a .mov file without adding something?
Chris Ridd
iDVD has a create "OneStep DVD from a movie file" option which sounds
exactly like what you want. The help text says:
"You can burn a OneStep DVD from a movie on your hard disk, skipping
the creative process involved in creating menus, modifying themes, and
so on. When you insert the burned disc into a DVD player or a computer,
the disc plays automatically."
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Chris
Warren Oates
TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> wrote:
> My movie is currently in .mov format. All I want to do is to convert it to
> the format that when placed on a DVD will play on a television.
Well, that's vague in two ways. The .mov format can contain almost
anything, and "play on a television" can mean almost anything, depending
on your set-top device.
I convert stuff to .divx which is a type of mpeg4. Usually in an .avi
container, which is very much like the .mov container, except that my
set-top device won't recognize the .mov suffix. These play happily on my
Sony DVD player (and thus on my television) which of course is Divx
compatible.
If you don't have Divx-ish set-top player, then you'll probably have to
convert to mpeg2. Like someone said, Toast will do it for you. It'll
take a while.
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TaliesinSoft
<7o7p2rF...@mid.individual.net>):
[responding to my wanting to record a .mov file onto a DVD suitable for
watching on a television]
> iDVD has a create "OneStep DVD from a movie file" option which sounds
> exactly like what you want. The help text says:
Many, many thanks! That did exactly what I wanted!
Barry OGrady
wrote:
>I have severl .mov files created via QuickTime X. I would like to burn them
>onto DVDs in a format that will plsy on a television set. What format do the
>files have to be in to accomplish this?
What format is plsy?
>Many thanks in advance for suggestions and such.
>
>--
>James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- talies...@me.com
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Barry
http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
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<god_fre...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:31:44 -0600, TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have severl .mov files created via QuickTime X. I would like to burn them
> >onto DVDs in a format that will plsy on a television set. What format do the
> >files have to be in to accomplish this?
>
> What format is plsy?
it's the format known as typo.
Mirsky
TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:51:54 -0600, Chris Ridd wrote (in article
>
> > iDVD has a create "OneStep DVD from a movie file" option which sounds
> > exactly like what you want. The help text says:
>
>
Does that option only exist in IDVD from ILife 09? I have IDVD from
ILife 08 and it seems like there is only a "Onestep DVD" option for
video from a camera.
Chris Ridd
I saw the option in iLife 09's IDVD, so this does look like the one new
feature that Apple added to iDVD for 09 :-)
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Chris