[Moscool]

Da_Jonesy, congrats on your first DVD!

The important piece to understand is that iDVD starts encoding as soon as you build chapters (it does it all in the background). So it's important that you import all your chapters first and then tweak the backdrops, music, etc. This will give the machine time to make all the calcs. If you prepare your scenes in iMovie and then export them with scene names, these will already be as iDVD chapter titles.

Enjoy!

[ September 16, 2003, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: Moscool ]

 

[Moscool]

Another thing about firewire cables:

Daisy chaining doesn't work very well with film. I guess there are just too many data pushing through at the same time. So, for example, if I try to capture DV on my external LaCie by chaining the FW connections (my PB12 only has one FW port), I get extremely slow capture and choppy quality.

This means that my PB hard disk must always have at least 15 Gigs free so that I can capture on this first, and then transfer to the LaCie (1 hour is about 12 Gigs).