[Since EBCDIC]

I've noticed, to some chagrin, that the movie rendered by iDVD is tiny, with pointers to the media items I've added, including the big movie at the heart of the matter.

Can I tell iDVD to make the main movie a flat movie, including the items?

Or would this undo iDVDs flexibility to work with the project; should I use something after the fact to flatten the movie into another copy which I can then pass out as a standalone movie?

[scottiB]

You can export a .mov directly from iMovie (or whatever app you're using): In iMovie, File>>Export>>To Quicktime (from the drop down menu). From there you can select the destination intent (email, web, CD-ROM, etc). There're also expert settings if you wish to tweak a bit (resolution, frames per second, etc.).

[Since EBCDIC]

Thank you. Yes, I know that route, but I would like to take advantage of iDVD's encoding time and not re-export it.

What I'm hoping to find is a utility which goes over a non-flattened QT movie and outputs a flattened version, sometimes called a self-contained version.

Searching versiontracker and ADC doesn't net me anything obvious, and these days I need obvious :-)

[Uncle Skeleton]

I still don't see why you would want one, but I see two options. Open it in QTPro and Save As (choosing the self-contained option there). Or, I wrote a cli app that flattens qt movies as part of metahoot so inside the app's bundle look for "qtFlatten" and its arguments are the input file path and the output file path, respectively

[Since EBCDIC]

I want one because a movie that's not self-contained can't be passed on to a friend or relative easily. One that is self-contined is, err, well, self-contained.

I don't have QT Pro, but perhaps that's a selling point.

I downloaded your link and will look at it this evening, when the kiddies have gone to sleep. Thanks!

[Uncle Skeleton]

ok and why can't you export your movie from iMovie in DV codec?

and yes, if you see yourself doing anything with video that will stay on the computer for any length of time (instead of just going directly to DVD or back to tape), I would highly recommend QTPro. Very good value for minor editing stuff (as opposed to major editing stuff like Final Cut style special effects)

[Mark E]

Originally posted by Since EBCDIC:
I want one because a movie that's not self-contained can't be passed on to a friend or relative easily. One that is self-contined is, err, well, self-contained.

if you're talking about DV video movies edited in iMovie.. remember they're about 14 GB per hour.