burning to a La Cie external burner

I have an iMac G5 (10.4.2), combo drive. I also have a Lacie d2 External 16x Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW Drive with FireWire/USB2.0 (Model 300920) as my external burner.

I've created a 20min. movie in iMovie and imported it into iDVD, and am hoping for some guidance on how to get this puppy burnt onto a playable (read: video) DVD disc.

As I understand it, I have two options:

1.) in iMovie, export the finished movie to QuickTime, and then use the bundled Toast Lite program (which came with the La Cie) to burn to DVD, sans menus. Has anyone tried this, and can verify that this is a workable option?

2.) in iDVD, create a disk image of the project. Here's where I get hazy; La Cie couldn't tell me how to get the disk image onto DVD using its burner; I know that Toast Lite does not support the disk image format; Apple Support refused to consult with me on the issue; Can anyone shed some light as video onto a DVD as video using the La Cie?

One other question: tomorrow I'll be near a Mac with a super drive. If I burned the disk image (or iMovie project) to DVD as data (versus video), and loaded it up on the super-drive equipped mac, would this work? Or would it be looking for local files that weren't there?

Thanks very much, in advance.

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Dec 22, 2005 9:47 AM

6 replies

Dec 22, 2005 10:04 AM in response to Community User

Did you try burning from iDVD??? I've been told that some LaCie drives work with profiles that are part of Tiger.

Disk Utiltiy (in Applications/Utilities) might work with the LaCie to burn the image.

You might check versiontracker.com and the LaCie website for new disk burning profiles.

Also you might be able to create the iDVD image, mount it the finder, and then use the VIDEO_TS foplder from the image to make the Video DVD in Toast-lite. I'm not familiar with Toast lite, but Toast5,6 &7 can do this.

john

Dec 22, 2005 10:46 AM in response to John Beatty1

actually no, I haven't tried just hitting the burn button. will give it a shot.

how do I mount the image to the Finder? will the Video-TS folder have all the audio/photos/video in it, plus the DVD menu data?

Thx.

Dec 22, 2005 8:10 PM in response to Community User

The most obvious solution here, which I overlooked b/c the last time I tried this was pre-tiger, was to hit 'Burn Disc'. Thanks to those that replied, so far so good.

Jan 30, 2006 11:09 AM in response to Community User

I had no luck burning a disk image (.img) file until I converted it to a "dvd master" (.cdr) via Disk Utility. At that point everything worked perfectly. I've also successfully burned from a .dmg file but I went back to .cdr on the supposition that since the .dmg format is described as 'compressed' there would be some loss of quality.
I've tried to find a technical discussion about these three file formats, but so far nothing. i'm surprised that Apple hasn't documented the no-burn .img in the Disk Utility help file.

G4 1GHz solo, laCie internal Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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