icesplice
17th October 2009, 11:05 AM
Hey guys...
Got a bit of a problem with my system, and a task I thought would be a breeze, but is eating up my time and my sanity!
A few weeks ago, I ran "Clean my mac" (I think thats the name of the app), a program that was supposed to remove unused files suck as language libraries, and the likes. The whole idea is to free up disk space.
Since I have run the app, I have been finding that a large number of apps have been failing or having problems.
The latest has come up with a task I am trying to complete. I have around 10 DV tapes that I need to convert for a friend to DVD, and I was planning to use iDVD to create menus of his holiday trip.
I captured everything in iMovie, and saved it out to my external drive. All tapes converted. Having not used iMovie before, I was surprised that it exported the movie as a mp4... Uhhh... 3
+ hours for the conversion, (300 hours all up for all the tapes <Arrh>) but what the hell.. I want to impress on this project... (Apple pride has kicked in!).
Built the disk in iDVD, let it render another 2 hours... and the disk fails. What?? Done it again, and it fails a second time. This did not happen before I ran "Clean my Mac" and I fire up Final Edit Pro, which refuses to capture footage (hence my use of iMovie, and yes, another symptom of CMM!!!)
OK... So here is where I am. What are my options to get this iMovie footage into DVD form as fast as I can. I would like to bypass rendering it out in iMovie, just cause of the 3 hours+ render time. I have a heap of individual DV files that need to become one, so I can take it to a different DVD creator.
I don't care about fancy at this time. I just want it done. Once its complete, I will reinstall my system and get my mac back to what it once was.
Any recommendations or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Braymen
Got a bit of a problem with my system, and a task I thought would be a breeze, but is eating up my time and my sanity!
A few weeks ago, I ran "Clean my mac" (I think thats the name of the app), a program that was supposed to remove unused files suck as language libraries, and the likes. The whole idea is to free up disk space.
Since I have run the app, I have been finding that a large number of apps have been failing or having problems.
The latest has come up with a task I am trying to complete. I have around 10 DV tapes that I need to convert for a friend to DVD, and I was planning to use iDVD to create menus of his holiday trip.
I captured everything in iMovie, and saved it out to my external drive. All tapes converted. Having not used iMovie before, I was surprised that it exported the movie as a mp4... Uhhh... 3
+ hours for the conversion, (300 hours all up for all the tapes <Arrh>) but what the hell.. I want to impress on this project... (Apple pride has kicked in!).
Built the disk in iDVD, let it render another 2 hours... and the disk fails. What?? Done it again, and it fails a second time. This did not happen before I ran "Clean my Mac" and I fire up Final Edit Pro, which refuses to capture footage (hence my use of iMovie, and yes, another symptom of CMM!!!)
OK... So here is where I am. What are my options to get this iMovie footage into DVD form as fast as I can. I would like to bypass rendering it out in iMovie, just cause of the 3 hours+ render time. I have a heap of individual DV files that need to become one, so I can take it to a different DVD creator.
I don't care about fancy at this time. I just want it done. Once its complete, I will reinstall my system and get my mac back to what it once was.
Any recommendations or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Braymen