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iMovie 3 export to Toast 6 for DVD? Help - landlox - 10-23-2006
Hi -
I have:
a G4/500mhz Mac with OSX 10.3.9
a DV camcorder
iMovie 3.0.3
Toast 6.1
I only recent got me a DVD burner.
I have succesfully imported from my camera to iMovie many times and used it to export the edited video back to my camcorder.
Now I would like to burn home DVD's for the first time.
In Toast's HELP it says all I have to do is "Drag and drop the iMovie reference file into Toast."
I don't know what an "iMovie reference file" is. All I see in my iMovie's project folder is a 4k project file (that I presume tells iMovie how to play the edited version back with all the transtions, titles, sounds etc). Otherwise I just see the individual video clip files in a 'Media' folder.
I thought MAYBE the 4k project file is the 'reference file' Toast's Help refered to but Toast doesn't allow me to even drop that small file into the Toast file list (under the Video tab of course).
Does anyone know what they mean?
Or maybe can start me from scratch and tell me how to do this.
I also have QT 6 Pro.
I found that Toast 6 CAN import a file from my DV-CAM directly. But exporting the edited version from iMovie BACK to the camera and THEN re-importing it into Toast seems the long way around.
I don't have iDVD. I would like to avoid paying for an upgraded Toast - for now at least - so please don't advise me to spend money I can't spare for this right now, thanks. I'd like to do this with what I have for the time being. Toast 6 seems to say this is possible but I haven't figured it out.
Of course if the advice is that it can't be done with what I have I'd like to know that. I'll start my upgrade fund.
Lastly - when I upgraded to iMovie 3 from 2 the new version was more taxing on my CPU. If works well IF I quit all other apps. So I doubt it can handle an iMovie upgrade.
thanks
'lox