http://www.bioneural.net bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:02:32 +0000 en http://www.bioneural.net/images/kiwi-yellow-64px.png http://www.bioneural.net 64 64 bioneural.net http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fdigital-video-idvd-and-dvd-rws%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+DVD-RWs http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fdigital-video-idvd-and-dvd-rws%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+DVD-RWs#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:36:46 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-dvd-rws/ From http://www.bioneural.net :

iDVD 3 does not burn to DVD-RW media by default, but can be tricked into doing so... Use the Disk Utility to erase a DVD-RW placed in your Superdrive. With the blank DVD-RW inserted, open iDVD and click twice on the Burn icon. That's it: great for producing a preview DVD to avoid wasting DVD-Rs! ]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fdigital-video-idvd-and-dvd-rws%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+DVD-RWs/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:34:04 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-widescreen-movies/ From http://www.bioneural.net :

iDVD 3 does not produce PAL widescreen (16:9) movies by default, but can be tricked into doing so... If you have a camcorder that can shoot anamorphic DV (e.g. Sony DCR-TVR60e PAL), you will need Final Cut Express rather than iMovie to edit the footage. Once editing is complete, save the movie in Final Cut Express format including any markers (e.g. Chapter markers), but uncheck the box that makes the file self-contained. Open iDVD and create your project file; when the status indicator shows that encoding is complete, save the project file and quit iDVD. Right-click on the DVD project file and select Show Package Contents. Navigate throught the folders Contents and Resources to locate the MPEG folder. Option-drag the MPEG folder to another location (e.g. your Desktop) to make a copy. Download HexEdit and use it to open in turn each file within the copied MPEG folder. Use HexEdit's Find and Replace option to find every instance of "2D 02 40 23" (describing 720 x 576 PAL in 4:3 ratio at 25 fps) and replace it with "2D 02 40 33" (describing 720 x 404 PAL in 16:9 ratio at 25 fps), saving each file. For more information about the changing the MPEG header, click here. Delete the original (4:3) MPEG files from within the Package, and replace them with the new (16:9) files you have just saved. You can view the effect this change has by opening each file in QuickTime if you have purchased the QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback component (you might need to give the file ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/