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#1 2003-01-17 1:15 pm
- vshaw
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Burning a VCD
How can I burn a VCD on my iBook? What software will I need, if any? And last of all, Will I need a DVD burner or just a CD burner?
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#2 2003-01-17 1:41 pm
- velocipede
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Re: Burning a VCD
You'll need Toast Titanium 5.14 or later to burn a VCD. Assuming you already have the video in a Quicktime formate, Toast will encode the movie into mpeg2 format. All you need is a CD Burner. I would give yourself a fair amount of time to encode the video. On my old Cube it would take several hours (anywhere from 6 to 10 hours :!: ) to encode a one hour movie, on a G3 iBook it will take at least as long. Of course, smaller movies will take a lot less time. I would normally let it work overnight. Once the video's been encoded it takes as long as a regular CD to burn. Hope that helps..
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#3 2003-01-17 2:30 pm
- vshaw
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Re: Burning a VCD
Thanks! Does anyone know if any other software would work?
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#4 2003-01-17 8:06 pm
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Re: Burning a VCD
Toast is the only one that I know about. The nice thing is, Toast comes with a little plugin for iMovie which lets you export it directly.
And yesh, expect major waits for rendering. But if you get annoyed, think of how long it'd take to render a DVD!
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#5 2003-01-17 11:00 pm
- y2kapostle
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Re: Burning a VCD
VCD Builder is available at versiontracker.com, and has a nice interface, but I don't exactly know what I'm doing
There are other software options available.
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#6 2003-01-18 12:01 am
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Burning a VCD
... but I don't exactly know what I'm doing
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Buck up, man! Believe in yourself! Confidence, confidence, confidence! You'll never know the blush of a sweet young thing without it.
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