charlesbt wrote:
… Would it be worth suggesting to my client that he uses FCPX-Final Cut Pro?…
I switched to FCPX about a year ago and haven't used iMovie since then.-
But I'm not that much in DVD-making (any more, although I once wrote this tutorials).
FCPX is blazing fast, and in conjunction with Compressor, set to use ALL cores of a Mac (here. only two, boooo) by establishing a 'virtual render net', conversions fly.-
... but iDVD wouldn't partake of these tools.
a) you can NOT use Compressor for mpeg2-encoding for iDVD - iDVD is/was made for .dv files, and swallows a very few .mov formats.
b) FCPX itself does create videoDVDs - but very ... 'primal' - no fancy, animated menus, just a black and a white theme, no 'modding' optional aside placing a picture into the background.
... plus, FCPx is a highly complex editor - compared to iMovie. Steem learning curve. The actual update to .06 changed a few things, I just learned! (booo again!) 😉
no, keep your actual workflow, 'optimize' speed by using the appleintermediatecodec as ... intermediate codec, follow Bengt's additional advice about free diskspace, and if optional, pimp your Mac with 8 - 16GBs Ram - done.
maybe your elephants can offer a dance meanwhile ... 😁
// for some unknown, silly reasons, I associate elephants as cuddly! as a school-kid, I was allowed to visit in the Hamburg zoo elephants in touch-distance. they had a baby-elephant, and that lil Jumbo liked to play nudging! we tried hard to push him, and he pushed us almost in orbit! grrrreat fun for all of us, lil' Jumbo raised his trunk and it looked like he was laughing at us! .... after a while, Ma Jumbo came, stopping the fun (mothers!), and the trainer told us, to leave the area ... I'm pretty sure, today there is in some zoo a now 45y older elephant waiting for me, pushing him around ... NO, I will never dare! but I like them .... 😁 //