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So I am about to return my Mac for a PC. . .am I making a mistake?

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The root of your question is valid: How do I burn a video file to a DVD playable in a stand alone player?

Did you try iDVD? It came with your Mac. You can drag the files to the menu, or if you'd like it to start immediately, go to the layout/structure view and drag the clip to the first box.

That being said/typed, Toast is the easiest way to do what you want.

I agree with they poster you mentioned that you may be over thinking it. Mac OS has always been intuitive to a spooky degree. Windows is a bandage on a bandage on a sore, so to speak. It trained me for the longest time to do everything the hard way.
 
mcatt66 said:
hmm. . not really sure what HFS or Joliet means or if I can do them on the program "burn". . .maybe I should just buck up and buy toast. . .
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What program did you use. You have to make a DVD from video file not burn the file without converting it to DVD first.

Toast & iDVD will do the trick.
 
Max Payne said:
What program did you use. You have to make a DVD from video file not burn the file without converting it to DVD first.

Toast & iDVD will do the trick.
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Thanks I was having trouble with Idvd. . .it wouldnt even accept my movies on there. . .I think I amy need to get toast. . .

I want to thank everyone for all the help. . .Im just abit frustrated at this point, but hopefully I will work through it. .
 
mcatt66 said:
I want to thank everyone for all the help. . .Im just abit frustrated at this point, but hopefully I will work through it. .
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Aside from the piracy asides...

I think you'll find Toast to be an excellent choice. Even older versions work quite well.

And if you get it without paying for it, at least do me the favor and act like you bought it, OK?
 
robbieduncan said:
As I said a few posts up the burn will be in HFS+ format. You need to burn them in Joliet format. The file format of the moves does not matter. We are talking about the disk format. Toast (or maybe Disco) will work fine for this. It is possible to use the command line tools to burn Joliet without any other apps but it's a but time consuming...
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Are you actually suggesting that someone (the OP in this case) who doesn't understand the OS, let alone Unix, mess around with Terminal? Man, that's mean!

To be quite honest, mcatt66, you don't seem to be the kind of person that is interested in learning anything about a mac. If all you want to do is run limewire, get software and whatever from there, and surf the web, then perhaps you should return the iMac, and get yourself a PC.
Limewire is truly one of those things that is designed for a Windows machine. What do I mean by that? Last week a co-worker of mine brought in her week-old laptop to me, as she was having issues with it. Apparently, she couldn't shut it down, and was wondering what was wrong. I saw that she had Limewire on it, which basically simplified things for me. I saved her personal data, and went on to scratch the entire thing. To my surprise, the brand new computer had 3 partitions- which she hadn't put there, and couldn't be seen by Windows. One was apptly named "Mediaware." I'll let you guess where that came from. The point is that p2p engines have simply become sources for adware, malware, and spyware, and you're unlikely to have a "good" experience with them on a Mac. Everything on them is designed for people like you that randomly click on things, and care about the "purtiness" of a machine rather than what it can give you in terms of usefulness.
Yes, you can do almost as much on a Mac as you can on a PC (for those of us who care about media, design, music, programming, and generally having things work, it can do much more than a PC). The question is what do get out of using a computer, and are you trying to get out of it.
 
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