iDVD 4.0.1

Wow! I'm the first comment, and I'm not anywhere near one of the forum nerds out there!

Maybe it's just because an x.x.1 update is so boring, and c'mon, all you're doing is playing movies with it.

hmm..

Wow! I'm the first comment, and I'm not anywhere near one of the forum nerds out there!

Maybe it's just because an x.x.1 update is so boring, and c'mon, all you're doing is playing movies with it.

hmm..

iDVD is for authoring DVDs, not just playing them.

-forum nerd

Be Warned though, if you're in the market for buying EyeTV to record tv shows or transfer VHS to digital format, you can't use iMovie or iDVD with the files

even if you save as "quicktime format" it's seen as an mpeg by pretty much all of iLife and Quicktime so you can't do anything with it.

EyeTV has an extremely drawn out method of converting, seperating audio from video and converting some more and just going through hell to make the file iDVD compatible.

I emailed them about this and their answer was that they (El Gato) help develop Roxio Toast and it makes more sense to them to just make sure that Toast can recognize the files. Which, of course, it does.

but then you miss out on the cool iDVD themes

Be Warned though, if you're in the market for buying EyeTV to record tv shows or transfer VHS to digital format, you can't use iMovie or iDVD with the files

even if you save as "quicktime format" it's seen as an mpeg by pretty much all of iLife and Quicktime so you can't do anything with it.

EyeTV has an extremely drawn out method of converting, seperating audio from video and converting some more and just going through hell to make the file iDVD compatible.

I emailed them about this and their answer was that they (El Gato) help develop Roxio Toast and it makes more sense to them to just make sure that Toast can recognize the files. Which, of course, it does.

but then you miss out on the cool iDVD themes

Can't you just use Quicktime Pro and convert it into DV, or whatever iMovie/iDVD require?

Wow! I'm the first comment, and I'm not anywhere near one of the forum nerds out there!

Maybe it's just because an x.x.1 update is so boring, and c'mon, all you're doing is playing movies with it.

hmm..

Well, you're burning movies.

Anyone know what this fixes?

there seem to have been a number of problems when actually burning the dvd disc..it stalled at various stages...i'm going to try it out now, and see if it fixes my problem..

I would be nice if they snuck in letting you burn to firewire drives since, after all, we are paying for idvd now in a separte package. The old way of only getting idvd with a superdrive mac is past us, I think Apple needs to rethink this. I'd even be willing to pay more for iLife if they put that feature in.

Can't you just use Quicktime Pro and convert it into DV, or whatever iMovie/iDVD require?

i swear it wouldn't work before :P
that's the first thing i tried and it wouldn't work and when i told them they told me about that 10 step process that's on their site and about how they don't want to support iDVD

but yeah it just worked so EyeTV is all good again :)

sorry for the misinformation

there seem to have been a number of problems when actually burning the dvd disc..it stalled at various stages...i'm going to try it out now, and see if it fixes my problem..

I hope this is the first of many updates... iDVD 4 is a mess in it's present form... I'm sure they'll get it fixed, but this program should have never been released, imho... On a good day I get a 15 hr. burn time with my audio in synch... On a bad day I get 2 coasters & a video that looks like a bad kung-fu movie...lol...

This is huge. iDVD 4 has been a mess for a lot of people. The Apple discussion boards have been crammed with complaints and desperate pleas for help.

A couple of weeks ago I posted that I thought the rev b G5s would be announced after a series of things came out -- they included 10.3.3 and an iLife fix for iDVD. (They also fessed up to the power supply issues audio users have been having.) I remember being slammed for saying the G5s wouldn't come out until March. I can't say I told you so 'cause they still might not come out 'til April -- but it's looking good!

Now they need to re-release QuickTime 6.5 for the G5.


EDIT: jemeinc, you should go to the Apple discussion boards and check out the iDVD section. Someone here already mentioned "sharing" to DV instead of exporting to iDVD -- this helps with the encoding time in iDVD. Of course, the other option is Toast or DVD Studio Pro. I certainly agree with you that iDVD4 should never have been released. It's not a good sign when Apple releases unproven software this way. Was it rushed to be included in the new iLife?