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Can anyone recommend software for creating/burning a video dvd on a mac? I'm trying to burn some old mp4 home movies to dvds but the recommended software (Burn by SourceForge) doesn't play well. It converts the files (currently about 1.gGB) to mpg format (5.6GB) which is too large for my single-layer dvds. iMovie no longer supports iDVD. Any suggestions?
Adding to my previous response, you might look into DVD Creator by Peng Guiping. I believe it is available on the Apple online app store.
Also, check out this thread for a good discussion of recommendations for a DVD authoring program to replace iDVD. Pay particular attention to the posts by Batman-15.
iDVD replacement software Recommednations - Apple Community
Roxio Toast is another DVD authoring program that some on this forum have used.
I doubt that you will find any DVD authoring program as good as the now continued iDVD.
-- Rich
Hi,
I would try the burn anyway and see if it fits. The running time of the video is more important than the size when burning a video DVD. The DVD authoring program should be able to compress a two hour or less video to fit on a single layer DVD. So, for example, if the video is 10 GB but the running time is less than two hours, the authoring program would compress it to fit on a standard single layer 4.7 GB DVD.
-- Rich
Just for the record, if you have a computer on Mojave, you can still run iDVD from an external drive (go figure!)
Keith,
Yes, I have Mojave and can run iDVD, although many of the themes don’t work. IDVD doesn’t like the APFS format, so the external drive should be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
— Rich
Sigh, iDVD was too good a piece of software to just let die.
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