From: Ajna-Luxi Lucidus-a-um (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 22:00:03 PST
It seems to me that the mac can burn DVD's right out of premiere now, if the mac has that software. Then there is some piece of christ program called I-DVD or something that for some reason seems to only burn .mov's as opposed to the standard mpeg2 coupled with a .aif file. I am wondering if there is some standard or more customizable authoring software?
Michael Betancourt <email suppressed> wrote:
Some general thoughts:
1. You must make sure that the DVD player can actually play the format
you want. It's usually printed on the box itself, so if it doesn't say
"DVD-R" then don't buy it sicne you can't be certain it will work. My
advice is to actually bring a disk with you to the store and try it in
the demo machine (this may confuse the clerk a little) to be sure.
2. The best "buy" I've seen (and I own one of these myself) is the
E-Gear machine sold at Target for about US$60-70. It doesn't have all
the fancy features some players have, but I've found it plays disks my
other machines won't. It does play DVD-R format disks, and is about 1/2
the size of most machines.
3. There are two formats of recordable DVD, one is burned by MACs, the
DVD-R while the other is burned by Phillips equipment, DVD+R so you need
to watch compatibility issues. I haven't seen a commercial player that
will handle both on the market yet, but maybe somebody else knows one... ?
Hope this helps.
Michael Betancourt
cinema project wrote:
>So I've noticed a recent trend when talking to
>film/video artists that people are more and more using
>dvd-rs to send out samples of their works to
>programmers. It's actually really great, I'm rather
>impressed with the quality of image on the format over
>the standard NTSC VHS format.
>The problem is that I don't even own a dvd player. I
>can watch them on my computer... but that's not really
>the best of scenarios. o I think it's time to join the
>masses and buy a dvd player.
>
>I'm hoping someone out there has some recommendations
>for specific brands/models that work really well with
>the dvd-r format.
>
>
>Thanks for you help,
>
>Pablo de Ocampo
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