I have a JVC camcorder with a SDHC memory card in it. I have a imac 10,1 with the 28" (i think) screen. I can not for the life of me figure out how to burn my home movies to a disc? I first bought Verbatim 16x 4.7GB disc and when I inserted the disc it would make some noises and after about 30 seconds or so it would spit it back out? I read somewhere that a 16x speed may not work so I bought Sony DVD-R disc that say 1-16x and the disc stay in longer but will pop out after everything is said and done. What do I need to do to burn my movies to a DVD? I have idvd and imovie. Also the file size seems very large per clip. If a dvd-r only holds 4.7GB then a 6min movie file is close to that?
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All I want to do is burn DVD's from my SDHC HD camcorder
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If the optical drive is rejecting discs. Then I gotta stop you right there. That's the big problem. Sounds like the optical drive has a fault.
The NORMAL procedure for something like this would be to copy the video files from the memory card to the hard drive, convert the movie if necessary into MP4 or AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) using something like MPEG Streamclip, store it in the Movies folder, open iMovie, edit as you like, "share" the project to iDVD and burn from there.
The NORMAL procedure for something like this would be to copy the video files from the memory card to the hard drive, convert the movie if necessary into MP4 or AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) using something like MPEG Streamclip, store it in the Movies folder, open iMovie, edit as you like, "share" the project to iDVD and burn from there.
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