Author software for external DVD writters & capacity
I notice IDVD does not work with external burners
So can anyone tell me the name of any good (cheap) dvd authoring software for the mac that I could use with an external DVD writter? (this should in theory then be used with an ibook laptop.
Also can anyone say if the 90 minute video limit with IDVD is a software limitation or is this just the capacity of dvd-r? (I would have thought you could drop the mpg2 quality to get more on the disk, or is the quality settings fixed by the DVD standard?)
Thanks
So can anyone tell me the name of any good (cheap) dvd authoring software for the mac that I could use with an external DVD writter? (this should in theory then be used with an ibook laptop.
Also can anyone say if the 90 minute video limit with IDVD is a software limitation or is this just the capacity of dvd-r? (I would have thought you could drop the mpg2 quality to get more on the disk, or is the quality settings fixed by the DVD standard?)
Thanks
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Here's some software that you can't buy: <a href="http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_drives_devideon_soft" target="_blank">http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_drives_devideon_soft</a>
Command-line tools if you don't need menus: <a href="http://forums.3ivx.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=78" target="_blank">http://forums.3ivx.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=78</a>
90 minutes is an iDVD limit. DVD Studio Pro doesn't have that limit.
DVD Studio Pro can do VBR as well as custom quality settings that let you stretch the time out.