Burning a DVD HELP PLEASE

[Sweener88]

Ok im really new to macs and the mac os x. i have a video file ( a 2gb video of my trip to europe). i want to make a dvd with it but when i try and us something like idvd it only has wierd themes and stuff which i dont want, i just want my video file on a dvd i can put into a dvd player and watch. how do i do this?! thank you!

 

[blodwyn]

Ok im really new to macs and the mac os x. i have a video file ( a 2gb video of my trip to europe). i want to make a dvd with it but when i try and us something like idvd it only has wierd themes and stuff which i dont want, i just want my video file on a dvd i can put into a dvd player and watch. how do i do this?! thank you!

The best thing would be to use Roxio Toast. It costs some money but it makes doing this kind of thing pretty easy.

 

[Sweener88]

anyone else? theres gotta be an easy way to do this!

 

[funkychunkz]

Actually popcorn is better for this.... expensive though

Without cranking out the dough, or downloading additional software, there is no easy way at all to do this.

However, a shareware program called ffmpegX will convert your video file (no matter the file type) into a DVD video file. Take the Video_TS folder into disk utility (or disk copy for 10.2.8 and prior) and make a disk image file out of it.

Go to Image-> New image from folder (select it), and go down to CD/DVD master. Use disk utility (that burns using the correct format, UDF).

Hope this works! (Never tried myself)

 

[disconap]

Report back if it does; I've always used Toast on Mac and Nero on PC, even from VOB files, so I'd be curious to see if it works (but too lazy to test it myself 😉 ).

 

[Sweener88]

if i was to use idvd it would be fine right? i just dont want one of those wierd templates.

 

[lpshean]

I think Roxio Toast does the job!