07-05-2011, 12:15 PM

My daughter just got married this past weekend & I taped it on my Sony Handy-cam mini-DVD corder. Now I'm kinda new to using a MAC, and I was wondering after I convert the mini-disks video onto one single large DVD. How can I use the varied videos from the CD & apply them into IDVD to create a nice compilation for my daughter??

Any assistance in this matter would greatly be appreciated.

07-07-2011, 06:23 AM

You haven't told us enough about your setup or exactly what you've done precisely (videos don't fit on a CD so try again there) to be able to answer. The one thing I CAN tell you is that if you ever put any of those accursed mini-discs into your Mac (not MAC), you will be REALLY sorry you did that, so don't.

07-07-2011, 09:33 AM

I know not to put the mini dvd's into my Mac & I had combined all 3 mini disks onto one large DVD, however, what I'm looking to do is I guess rip certain parts of my daughters wedding video I did & create a compilation of movies & snap shots into imovie. So, can you recommend any DVDxDVD programs I could use to do this?

I've looked into the following DVDxDV Rip DVDs to High Quality Video for Mac - Convert DVD to iTunes, MOV, MP4, MP3 is this a good program or is there something else?

07-07-2011, 09:34 AM

Note: Merged duplicate thread.

There is no need for any DVD ripping application to move videos of homemade DVDs to a computer. What you will need is to re-encode the video to a format suitable for iMovie to use. I am not into the video side on Macs, so I'll leave this to others.

(As chas stated, do not put one of those mini-CDs into a slot load drive - any slot load drive.)

07-07-2011, 09:38 AM

How do I go about re-encoding the video?? When I put the DVD into my Mac it goes directly into play mode?

07-11-2011, 06:21 AM

1. Just turn off DVD player when it starts up.

2. Use a program such as the one you previously mentioned -- DVDxDV (for no loss, but the resulting files will be huge) or something like Handbrake -- to convert the DVD's files back into "movie files" that iMovie and iDVD can understand, like MP4.

3. If you need to re-edit, open iMovie and load the new movie files in there. If you don't, open iDVD, create a new project, and then drag the movie files into it.