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Any external DVD RW drives compatible with iDVD?

#1 User is offline   MacTiger Icon

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Posted 10 September 2003 - 08:52 PM

Hi, I'm looking for an external DVD RW drive that is compatible with iDVD. IS there any you can recommend? Thanks!
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 03:29 AM

No such thing. You must have an internal drive for iDVD.
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 09:11 AM

... and that is all there is to it, except
idvd isnt all there is to use!
dvd studio pro 2 - is only 100mb and a few hundred bucks away
and supports external burners...
i think the new version is suppost to be more 'idvd like' .. and can probably
open idvd projects...
so all isnt lost
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 09:30 AM

I belive OWC made a hack to allow idvd to notice external dvd burners. look on e-bay for it.
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 11:53 AM

Toast 6 can now author DVDs to external drives as well, but you won't get all the bells and whistles that you do with iDVD.

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Posted 11 September 2003 - 11:57 AM

Jon,
Does Toast handle the mpg2 conversion from miniDV or Quicktime? Or do you need to have another app put together the VOB and stuff like that?
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 03:21 PM

Toast comes with an MPEG-2 encoder...it will encode any video file QuickTime can understand.
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