Hey everyone, how do I burn a playable DVD without iDVD? I finished editing a home movie and want to send it to my grandma but doesn't have a reliable internet connection. I have an external burner and blank DVD-R's. Just can't figure out how to burn the MOV file to a playable DVD for her
You will need a video DVD authoring app to create and burn the movie to disc so it can be played on a set top DVD player. Go to the App Store and do a search for video DVD. You'll get a list of many potential candidates. There are a number of free apps and demo apps (puts a watermark over the resulting video until the app is purchased). Most can save as a disk image so you can follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
You will need a video DVD authoring app to create and burn the movie to disc so it can be played on a set top DVD player. Go to the App Store and do a search for video DVD. You'll get a list of many potential candidates. There are a number of free apps and demo apps (puts a watermark over the resulting video until the app is purchased). Most can save as a disk image so you can follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
Try a third party application (none have the features of iDVD though).
Burn (free) - http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html - includes basic DVD authoring but you will definitely have to read the documentation.
Easily Burn Movies to a DVD without Apple's iDVD. - http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/easily_burn_movies_to_a_dvd_without_apples_idvd. html - directions for using Burn to make a TV DVD. Note, Burn also has a separate application which lets you do more fancy menus.
Burning a playable DVD
