Chapter 16. Exporting to DVD

My father has amassed a fairly large videotape collection over the past several years. So you can imagine that he's done a fair bit of eye-rolling as DVD discs have quickly gained in popularity, because now he has to decide whether he wants to begin building a DVD collection, too.

It's going to be a hard sell to hold on to old VHS tapes. The single advantage videotape holds is that VHS players are still much more common than DVD players. But that won't be the case for long.

DVD has several key advantages over VHS. The discs are smaller than videotapes, their image and sound quality are much better, and discs don't degrade over time (at least, not remotely as fast as tape, a fact you're no doubt aware of if you have an aging wedding or graduation video sitting on a shelf). And DVDs are interactive: jump to your favorite scene in a movie; play a director's commentary while watching a movie; or, in the case of making and playing iMovie videos, store several movies on one disc that can be accessed without fast-forwarding (and rewinding, then fast-forwarding again as you try to find selected clips on a tape).

This chapter explains how you can easily export your footage from iMovie and bring it into the equally easy-to-use iDVD software.



iMovie 3 for MAC OS X. Visual QuickStart Guide
iMovie 3 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
ISBN: 0321193970
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 125
Authors: Jeff Carlson

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