Jun 09 2009
DVD authoring , too much for my (good) old Mac?
When purchasing my Mac PowerBook G4 over 4 years ago as a 4th year undergraduate student, I opted not to purchase a DVD burner. At the time, the extra $?, was too much and I could not foresee needing to burn DVDs (I would never illegally copy a DVD!, and had no inclination to make my own productions). This decision has haunted many times since. As such, while undertaking the DVD toolkit activity, I could not fully complete it. However, I do have the iDVD application on my Mac and spent some time playing around with it. Like most iApple applications, I found iDVD to be very user friendly with drag and drop ease, and aesthetically pleasing themes. I decided to make a DVD using photos from my wedding (as I have yet, 5 years later, to print these). I created a menu slideshow using some of the best photos, and then created a chapter using a slideshow of the wedding photos that I had previously made in iPhoto. Very much out of character for my trustworthy Mac, the program crashed in the middle of editing and a lot of my work was not saved. If I do choose to author DVDs in the future, and after undertaking this activity, I realize how easy it is, I would have to upgrade my computer.
