external firewire dvd burning

[heathpitts]

The idvd software requirements say that you must have a built in superdrive equipped mac to burn dvds. Is there no way to burn dvds to a firewire drive?

[Cheryl]

Use Roxio's Toast Titanium and you will be set. When you install Toast, you need to disable two of Apple's extensions:
Firewire Authoring Support
USB Authoring Support

You will like Toast.

[heathpitts]

so this program can actually burn in the dvd format? I need to make sure because I dont want just a video cd output that can be read on a dvd player i want the actual dvd format.


Thanks

Heath Pitts

[Cheryl]

Yes, it does burn DVD's. There is an entire chapter in the manual on the how to.

[physicsGuy]

Actually, Toast won't author DVD's. It will only burn from prepared VIDEO_TS folder (and the other TS folder whose name I can't remember). To prepare these folders, you need an authoring program like DVD Studio Pro. Or you can go into the PC world and use free stuff like bbmpeg, and then tranfer the folders back to Mac for burning.

[pry3i]

is there a minimum system requirement to burn DVD's on an external firewire DVD-RW?

Sure, the Quadra wont do it, but how about a PB G3 500?

[Cheryl]

The Minimum Requirements:
CD or DVD recorder
Power Macintosh processor
24 MB RAM (more is better of course)
100 MB hard drive space
QuickTime
Recordable CDs or DVDs

This is straight from the box.

[Point_Col]

Originally Posted by physicsGuy

Actually, Toast won't author DVD's. It will only burn from prepared VIDEO_TS folder (and the other TS folder whose name I can't remember). To prepare these folders, you need an authoring program like DVD Studio Pro. Or you can go into the PC world and use free stuff like bbmpeg, and then tranfer the folders back to Mac for burning.

Tried to do exact this i.e. prepare dvd in studio pro, build the files then write to dvd-r using Toast.
I can't get Toast Titanium to burn the prepared VIDEO_TS (& AUDIO_TS) to my Lacie D2 firewire external dvd writer. not sure what settings should be and which option to use for the burn (Data / Video)
one dvd-r i burned didn't play using the apple dvd player or in my Marantz DVD player - i dont think i formatted it correctly and my trial and error approach has failed so far.
any wise words from anyone????