help with idvd

what kind of files?

what kind of files? idvd can't accept everything... pretty much limited to dv and imovie projects. if it's something like existing mpeg or divx, you need something like toast 7 which has a batch encoder to dvd format.

 

Need a lot more info. What's the source of the video files? What format are they in? How long are they (iDVD, or rather, DVD-R cand only handle certain time lengths)?

 

i think you need to open it in imovie first to remove the sound and stuff then just click send to idvd
A funny side note, When i burn my movies in idvd it plays in all the dvd players in my house, yet when i play it on my ibook the dvd player says "Disk Not Supported", kinds wierd.

 

AVI files can be multiple things...

An AVI can be completely uncompressed video - it would be very large... 2 GB for every 10 minutes.

or

An AVI can be a container for another video type - usually a DivX file.

Either one of these can be dropped into Toast 7 and burned to DVD no problem.

Importing into iMovie is an unnecessary step, and not even possible if it's a DivX file... iMovie is very particular about the files it can support and DivX is definitely not one of them.

Note... if it's a DivX file with Dolby audio... you're out of luck... there's no way to get that to play on the Mac right now due to a change in QuickTime 7... the video will play just fine, but the audio won't.