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christ
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Jul 27, 2001, 07:27 AM
 
Where/ how does one (legally) obtain iDVD if one has an old museum piece mac (533DP) and buys a 3rd party Superdrive?

Is this a lounge question (I'm terrified of asking in the G4 forum since cube-dude went berserk there!)? - it doesn't relate to the Mac OS, nor is it 3rd party software.
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Jul 27, 2001, 08:43 AM
 
Slightly off topic, but forgive me. First, the 533 DP is arguably the second fasted Mac ever made behind the 800 DP.

Second, I think that Apple is squandering the potential of iDVD. I think that what is needed is an easy way to make SVCDs. SVCDs or miniDVDs are MPEG2 video files on written on a CD. This gives you over 15 minutes of DVD quality video on a 35 cent CDR that can be played on almost all new generation consumer DVD players. This has the potential of being a killer app that would really compliment iMovie. Almost everyone has a CD burner.

Even though iMovie allows you to easily edit a movie, there is no high quality, easy, inexpensive way to export your movie. Current options are:

1) Back to DV- expensive, not standardized, limited # of players
2) VHS- low quality , expensive
3) Roxio VCD- low quality
4) Quicktime movies- piss poor quality with the included encoders, limited bandwidth

iDVD already has high speed MPEG2 encoding (2x on G4s vs 10-20x Quicktime encoding). All we need is a way to write out iMovies in MPEG2 format on a CDR to really enable easy, high quality sharing of our work.

I think that Apple is really missing the boat on this.
     
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Jul 27, 2001, 10:22 AM
 
SVCD's great if all you want to encode is a couple of music videos or an animated short or two. But that's about it. Fifteen minutes of video just isn't enough for most applications. Sure, it's cheap, but the DVD-R format Apple uses now just plain works better (though I could wish for a "DVD-9-R" or something similar...)
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