[Draco]

I'm getting my first Mac soon, and I have a Panasonic DV cam. I recently recorded a family wedding, about 50 minutes of video. I'm pretty sure Apple's iMovie will let me capture it and edit it, but I'll still have a big raw DV file right? How do I encode it from there to work on a DVD and play in a DVD player? I imagine it has to be in MPEG2 format for it to be readable in a DVD player, correct?

If I don't have a super drive, can I still encode the file and transfer it to a PC to burn?

thanks for any help.

[k_munic]

Originally posted by Draco:
I'm getting my first Mac soon, and I have a Panasonic DV cam. I recently recorded a family wedding, about 50 minutes of video. I'm pretty sure Apple's iMovie will let me capture it and edit it, but I'll still have a big raw DV file right? How do I encode it from there to work on a DVD and play in a DVD player? I imagine it has to be in MPEG2 format for it to be readable in a DVD player, correct?

If I don't have a super drive, can I still encode the file and transfer it to a PC to burn?

thanks for any help.

a) you HAVE a superdrive? so, just import your movie into iMovie and export to iDVD - the encoding is done by this software, discburner will nurn it onto a dvd.
a) you DON't have a superdrive? the iLife tools just work WITH a installed superdrive ... hmm, many free apps, difficult to handle...- search VT for "ffmpeg", it produces mpg2 files you can transfer to a PeeCee and process them there

addition to a) buy Toast 6! it offers the possibility to play your camcorder material DIRECTly onto dvd...-

[Axo1ot1]

Not that it really matters, but Mini DV and DVCAM are different things. Not super different, but you don't sound like you have a DVCAM camera there.