[ptselles]

Does any CDR let you copy your video from iMovie. Then let you play them on a DVD?

it can be done. I have been trying to turn home movie vhs into CD-R VCDs for playing on my home DVD player.

Not all DVD players can play CD-R VCDs. Mine can, a Pioneer 525.

I have not mastered it yet, but I am getting closer.

tyler@lemkefamily.com

[mdf-occ1]

Kinda weird, but I was playing with this too. My Toshiba DVD player will not recognize any VideoCDs I burn if they are on normal CDRs, but for some reason, CDRW's burned as VideoCDs work fine. That and I can reuse them!

To make a VCD use Astarte M.Pack to make your videos to MPEG2 streaming files... then you can burn with toast.

[Feathers]

Don't you mean MPEG1 for VCD and Toast. MPEG2 is DVD and ToastDVD, innit?

[wmldwilly]

Check out moviemac.com, and look for the "how to make Video CDs with a Mac" entry. You'll find a downloadable acrobat file describing how to take a quicktime movie, turn it into a toast ready mpeg 1 file with Astarte M.Pack, and burn it to CD. Works well, except my particular DVD player (the RCA DVIX player...a piece of electronics white elephant history!) doesn't recognize 3" disks, CD-Rs, or CD-RWs at all. I had to verify the disks in an iMac DVD drive. Although I've read that Video CDs will play back in a normal CD drive with the right playback software.

Cheers

[GORDYmac]

wmldwilly, thanks for the info. I read that VideoCD FAQ a few months ago, and couldn't recall where. This time I downloaded it.

[blizaine]

moviemac.com/create_movies/VCDFAQ.pdf


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