Will my mac play mini-dvds?

[al3000]

I have got some mini-dvds that I recorded on using my camcorder, will my mac be able to play them? I am worried about putting the disk in and it getting stuck or never coming out :eek:

thanks in advance :)

[Deputy-Dawg]

No!! They can jam in the slot loading player.

[al3000]

Damn, and my camcorder doesnt support connecting to a computer...arrrgh!

Thanks anyways though :)

[Chundles]

Damn, and my camcorder doesnt support connecting to a computer...arrrgh!

Thanks anyways though :)

What type of Mac do you have? Mac Pros can play miniDVDs because they have a tray loading drive. Anything else can't because the slot-loading drive will jam up with one in it.

[Kimi]

You can pick up an cheep external drive for about £23 (a normal PC drive and a caddy), so it's not too much to go and pick one up.

[al3000]

You can pick up an cheep external drive for about £23 (a normal PC drive and a caddy), so it's not too much to go and pick one up.

Thats not so bad then, thanks. Where did you see one for that much..i've had a look online but couldnt see anything.

[slu]

whay kind of camera do you have? i find it hard to believe that you cannot connect it to your mac.

[Counterfit]

Mini-DVD cams suck anyway.

[Chundles]

Mini-DVD cams suck anyway.

Yep, they don't often connect to a computer and when you do figure out how to get the video onto the computer the MPEG-2 format they use for the video is a bugger to try and edit. You have to convert the video first to something more edit-friendly.

Mini-DV cams are waaay better.

[al3000]

Yep, they don't often connect to a computer and when you do figure out how to get the video onto the computer the MPEG-2 format they use for the video is a bugger to try and edit. You have to convert the video first to something more edit-friendly.

Mini-DV cams are waaay better.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, have decided to have another go at making the movies. I am going to take the disks into a shop to have them put on a dvd... but what I need to know now is... can I import video off a dvd into iMovie!?

thanks in advance :D

[kuebby]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, have decided to have another go at making the movies. I am going to take the disks into a shop to have them put on a dvd... but what I need to know now is... can I import video off a dvd into iMovie!?


What's probably easier than doing that is to just buy an external DVD drive. Tray loading DVD burners can be had for like $30 now and external enclosures are only like $20-30.

So with that set-up you could read the mini DVDs and you wouldn't have to pay a store to transfer them to DVDs every time you wanted to use your camera.

[al3000]

What's probably easier than doing that is to just buy an external DVD drive. Tray loading DVD burners can be had for like $30 now and external enclosures are only like $20-30.

So with that set-up you could read the mini DVDs and you wouldn't have to pay a store to transfer them to DVDs every time you wanted to use your camera.

Thanks, so iMovie can import content from the dvds?

[al3000]

Thanks, so iMovie can import content from the dvds?



Anyone? Thanks in advance :D

[Dimwhit]

Thanks, so iMovie can import content from the dvds?

Not directly, no. You need to convert the DVD into something iMovie will read. For non-DRM'd stuff, I use MPEG Streamclip. Rips the DVD content to many different formats (I use .dv).

[al3000]

Not directly, no. You need to convert the DVD into something iMovie will read. For non-DRM'd stuff, I use MPEG Streamclip. Rips the DVD content to many different formats (I use .dv).

Thanks...how would I do that?