Who knows anything DVD burners?

[planet10]

Originally posted by jean-paul
And what do you think a Superdrive is Dave ???

A drive capable of RW DVDs & CDs. Original units were all Pioneers, current production uses other vendors as well.

The key thou is that all the software comes with -- burning data is seamlessly built into the OS and making movies is covered with iDVD (also brain-dead simple). The software for making the movies all come with too, and if you need there are upgrades to full-blown professional quality software at bargain-basement prices.

As to RIPing & burning existing DVDs, i don't really see the point. For the time, effort & money involved i'd rather go out and buy a 2nd copy -- it would be cheaper. And if you really need to, i'm sure software is out there (probably ported from Linux) to do the RIPing.

dave

[Magnetmaz]

For me :

Time involved = 2 hours from start to end on a 2x dvd-r. this is for ANY movie.

Money involved = $250 for what i paid for the drive, $1.00 a piece for DVD-r media ( i buy in spools of 50 or 100 at a time ), and $.50 for a DVD aramark case.

Truth be told, i probably spend more in printing out covers for the dvds i copy....inkjet printer cartridges are expensive!


-Maz ( who loves his 2 children - Mac G4 AND PC equally )

[Magnetmaz]

Oh..and planet 10, there is Ripping and reencoding software for Mac OSx. The last app i used was called ffmpeg. Seemed to work well.

-Maz

[planet10]

Originally posted by Magnetmaz
Time involved = 2 hours from start to end

Well for me that's $100 CAD... i could buy 3-4 movies for that

dave

[Magnetmaz]

Well, it occupies 2 hours of your computers processor, but certainly not 2 hours of your personal time. Only a few mouseclicks are involved, ....and then its a fire-and-forget type operation.


Personally, i like using the 2 hours to get hammered.



-Maz