Switching a .mov or a .dv file to am .iso that CREATESPACE will let me load

[Beowulf54]

Hi;

I am trying to turn a 4 plus gig movie into something called an .iso file that CREATESPACE will let me load and sell as a movie. I have about fifty films with them but since they left Fort Sumter, SC and moved out to GRIMM country, Seattle, they want to change everything and make my life miserable.

I barely speak computer at all, but David Pogue helped me learn how to make movies with his books...

I JUST NEED to transfer a .mov or .dv file to a .iso and I need EXPLICIT instructions, (literally spell out each and every thing... I understand none of the Jargon) on how to do that.

Previously, someone shared a way using DISK UTILITY... But this business of MOUNTING and UNMOUNTING, especially when my movie is grayed out and can not be selected, stopped me dead when I tried to follow the thread.

I get the following: DISK UTILITY - NEW IMAGE - FORMAT TO EXFAT - IMAGE FORMAT to CD/DVD MASTER... and I can hit CREATE, and select the 4.7 gig size in order to make a thing that looks like a hard drive symbol on my Mac with .cdr. I can change that to .iso, and it changes...

At this point, I have a thing that is 4.7 gigs big, and is whatever I named it. (blah blah).cdr to .iso...

Now, how do I take my .mov or .dv movie and MOUNT it to THAT THING, when it does not show up in the white side window, and if selected any other way, is GRAYED out???


What is the next step to making that .mov or .dv into that .iso thing???

And please use language that shows the steps exactly as they occur, not something that I won't 'get'!! THANKS in advance!

 

[Beowulf54]

So, I stumped all of you with this one??

That was easy.

 

[harryb2448]

Middle of the night over there, a public holiday and no responses in an hour 35 minutes? Give it time there are no paid employees here.

 

[Beowulf54]

I wrote it on the 22nd. Had over 90 views. (Apple can't answer it, either!)

 

[MacInWin]

Probably 85 of the 90 looks were bots.

Welcome to the forum.

Try this: Search result NOTE: You do NOT make the .iso and then put anything in it. You select what you want and then burn it to an iso image on the disk. Follow the steps in the linked article.

 

[Beowulf54]

MacInWIn

Thank you for the welcome!

Here's my problem. I just had my late August 2008 iBeast desktop (four gigs of RAM 1 terrabyte of storage) fatally crash in July of this year, and I had to buy a new computer. Lost two months worth of stuff, but thankfully I did have 8 terrabytes of western digital storage boxes, mostly all full now, of stuff from 2006 till now... except for those last two months... which I had not yet converted to deep storage. (was not running TIME MACHINE)...

The above link talks about "burning things to discs," I have no super drive on this NEW computer that I bought in August of 2015 when I had to buy one. I did not spring for the $79 thing... I burn DVDS and CDS on my old OFF LINE 2006 White Tiger Mac, which no longer speaks to the internet, nor to this new computer, at all... if I update it, I LOSE THE ABILITY to EXPORT film to my CAMERA!! (Thanks, Apple!!) I had to change it back to Nov of 2006, where it shall forever live...

I am (on the internet) NOW driving a $1500 iMAC desktop 21.5 inch (late 2013) 10.10.5 device, whatever any of that means...

I am from the days before the internet, one who understands none of this (I am 54) and I became a film maker who was forced to start using computers for editing.

Only MAC had any real system in 2006, and so I got into it and DAVID POGUED my way through how to use the thing as there were never any books in the box... My other computer is a WHITE ONE, as Sheldon Cooper calls it, running TIGER late '06 desktop, which still works.

Here is what I want to do...

I sell films on AMAZON. I have about fifty or so out there now.

Several years ago, Amazon came up with a very stupid idea of not allowing us to send in DVDS any longer, but to upload source material through an .iso file ONLY.

I have no idea what to do. I have .movs and .dvs and now, these .m4v things... but how to make one into an .iso that will load to Amazon's Createspace site??? NO CLUE!


I need to convert these MAC files such as .mov, .dv. or .m4v into .iso. Some of these files are four gigs or more in size.

In your explanations, please say what thing to press and where. I will get lost in the jargon unless you do! "Mounting disc files" and other instructions may seem standard to you guys, but you need to say, "You see that little thing in the corner? Yeah, press that!"

And again, I do thank you for anything you can do to help me do this thing.

I am currently mailing all of these films to a friend in Georgia who himself has no idea what he is doing, but he loads the film, and the machine makes it into the file for him, which he then sends me back on the USB stick... a real pain!!

I basically need to change files that already exist on the computer hard drive, from MAC stuff like .mov to .iso files...

and I need a blow by blow account of how to use the DISC UTILITY thing for 4 gig or greater films!!

MOST of the stuff is GRAYED OUT, and WILL NOT be available to SELECT when I get into doing it, anyway... either that, or it does not even show up in the white box of choices on the left, to even select... there is HARD DRIVE, and stuff like that, but NO movies... and when I select CONVERT, (next to NEW IMAGE) as I was shown on YOUTUBE, the selection drops down my choice as GRAYED OUT, and it just looks at me and does nothing...

Thanks!!!

Geo

 

[Beowulf54]

And it is all GRAYED OUT, just as I said before...

 

[chas_m]

Did you click on the link provided and read it? What did you learn from that?

 

[MacInWin]

@Beowulf54, you can help here by leaving out the extraneous comments that don't specifically address the issue. That way we can focus on what the challenge is. Out of your last post this is what was important:

I basically need to change files that already exist on the computer hard drive, from MAC stuff like .mov to .iso files...

and I need a blow by blow account of how to use the DISC UTILITY thing for 4 gig or greater films!!

The rest was all distractor.

Now, to be able to help you with the step-by-step directions, what version OS X are you running? To get to that piece of information, click on the apple symbol in the upper left corner, then About This Mac. Tell us what it says in the resulting box. All we need is the version of OS X, which should be in the format of 10.#.#. From that we can give instructions on how to BURN an .iso image (Yes, BURN is what it is called even if you don't burn it to a disk. In your case, we'll BURN it to an HD, then you can send it to your audience from there.)

 

[Beowulf54]

Thanks.

I am running a thing called YOSEMITE OSX 10.10.5. Late 2013, even though bought in July of 2015.

 

[Beowulf54]

I went through the steps, and could not get any of my GRAYED OUT stuff to light up so I could convert anything.

 

[MacInWin]

OK, I'll have to leave it to someone with Yosemite. Apple changed Disk Utility in El Cap and I no longer have Yosemite to work out step-by-step processes.

However, you could get the free utility called Burn. Then open Burn, Click on the DATA tab, drag the movie to the data area and drop it there, Name the disk image, pick PC(Joliet) as the format (just to the right of the disk name and then go to File on the top menu and pick Save Image. You will end up with an iso file that you can then send to someone to test that it's all done properly and openable in Windows and if so, you have a process. I really can't make it any simpler than that.

 

[MightyGem]

First of all, the link in Post 5 is for burning an ISO image onto a cd/dvd. You want to produce an ISO image. This has to be done in two stages. First you create a .cdr image of your movie using Disk Utility, and then convert it to an .iso image using Terminal. You could just change the .cdr extension to .iso, but it seems that it doesn't always work.

This link will give you a step by step on how to do it. I've just tried it and it works.

Two tips before you start: 1. Put the movie file that you want in/on the iso into a Folder, as Disk Utility needs it in one, 2. Don't use copy and paste to put the instructions for making the iso into Terminal. Type it as per the screenshot on the webpage.

Note: The website assumes you are making an iso of a DVD, so for Step 3 of making the cdr, choose "Disk Image from Folder", and navigate to the Folder containing your movie.
http://imacify.com/2013/06/how-to-create-iso-disc-image-from-cddvd-in-mac-os-x/

 

[MacInWin]

If you decide to use the Terminal method, be aware that Terminal is a very powerful tool and that if you mistype anything, you may create significant problems. The commands in the article from MightyGem look pretty much safe, but just be careful. I think the Burn method executes the conversion process for you because when I saved the Image I ended up with an iso file directly. I don't have any Windows boxes so I cannot test that the .iso is usable, but I did open it in my Parallels Win7 virtual machine and the Windows burner offered to burn it to a disk, so I assume that the process worked well for Windows. That's why I said you can send the file to a Windows user test that the process produces a windows-compatible iso file.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

 

[Beowulf54]

I am not going to be UPGRADING ( a blasted-ly ANNOYING process, in its own right) anymore because I use iMOVIE HD (06), which, save for the graphics, is far better than ANYTHING else ever in iMovie. My 2015 can finally recognize the 2006 iMovie projects, and I will not let APPLE steal back that capability with one of their idiot UPGRADES.

I have heard horror stories about El Capitan, anyway, and I always end up screwing something up to a FARE-THEE-WELL when I allow APPLE to UPGRADE. I still regret upgrading my iPhone 6, and losing my original video process, and upgrading iPhoto to this new and worse thing called PHOTO.

I really don't understand how Apple has legions of you guys as disciples when all they do is drag you through a maze of GAIN/ YET LOSE "features." What do you guys do with this stuff, anyway? What things do you create from this nightmare? Games? Transfer movies? Spread sheets? Most of what is on any of these computers I never use, anyway.

What is the attraction to their increasingly disorienting process?

I had one job; film creation and editing. Save for that, I have no interest in these things called computers, at all. Maybe selling my stuff on line... or researching something.

I am the only one left making any commercial movies, apparently, and what Steve did to the DVD, Cook is doing to the rest of the iMovie process. I am about done with the whole system, entirely.

Once the Northern states took over control of Amazon Createspace, from South Carolina, I am no longer able to deal with them, either.

Our one chance to make Hollywood do anything but regurgitate its own sequels has finally been quelled, I see. PC can't do anything of substance and now MAC can't make the connections between them, at all.

Apple promised to make this the series of computers for the artists, but we no longer have time to create anything; we have to spend our lives doing the REST of their jobs for them, for free.


I will TRY this, and see.

Thanks for all your help, but I am still seeing that same gray brick wall.

And I imagine that my projects will STILL be grayed out, once I get to the actual part of converting anything.

No one ever addresses why this is.

 

[MacInWin]

I am not going to be UPGRADING ( a blasted-ly ANNOYING process, in its own right) anymore because I use iMOVIE HD (06), which, save for the graphics, is far better than ANYTHING else ever in iMovie. My 2015 can finally recognize the 2006 iMovie projects, and I will not let APPLE steal back that capability with one of their idiot UPGRADES.

So you will wait for the 2006 machine to fail totally before you are willing to move up? At that point you will have no machine and no experience and perhaps no clean path to upgrade! That doesn't seem very wise to me. Far better to make the move now, when at least you have a fallback system.

I have heard horror stories about El Capitan, anyway, and I always end up screwing something up to a FARE-THEE-WELL when I allow APPLE to UPGRADE. I still regret upgrading my iPhone 6, and losing my original video process, and upgrading iPhoto to this new and worse thing called PHOTO.

Apple doesn't upgrade, you do. They merely make the upgrade/update available. Nobody forces the update, unlike Windows, who seem to apply updates every time I shut down the virtual machine. And actually, El Cap is very stable now. The ranting on the web is from people who didn't like how it works, but it works well and I've had no problems in my upgrading to it. And Photos (that's the name) is pretty close to what iPhoto was. Apple intends to deprecate iPhoto, so if you don't move to Photos soon, you will eventually find yourself abandoned there, too. Again, migrating while you have a fallback would seem to be the wiser approach.

I really don't understand how Apple has legions of you guys as disciples when all they do is drag you through a maze of GAIN/ YET LOSE "features." What do you guys do, anyway? What things do you create from this nightmare? What is the attraction to their increasingly disorienting process?

Nice rant. Personally I've never liked the "Apple is a religion" mantra. I don't worship Apple or Jobs or Cook, but I do admire what they produced and are producing to date. If they stop producing quality, I'll stop buying Apple. Don't know what I'll go to, because right now Apple is the best option for me, but if they slide to second best, I'll definitely make the move. Quality is more important than brand name for me. To the rest of the comment, I don't really know how to respond. I use my system to do graphics work with the Adobe suite, play music, email, some office work for my wife's business (accounting, spreadsheets and documents mostly, with the occasional presentation with both MS Office and the Apple productivity suite) and, of course, surf the web. I'm not disoriented by it at all. I'm 70 years old and seem to be able to keep up just fine. It's all in the attitude, I think. If you want to succeed, your chances are a lot better at actually doing it. At least for me, anyway.

I am the only one left making any commercial movies, apparently, and what Steve did to the DVD, Cook is doing to the rest of the iMovie process. I am about done with the whole system, entirely.

I chose to take out the DVD from my MacBookPro and put in an SSD. Didn't need it internal and can always use an external DVD if I really need to. I put the one that was inside in an enclosure, works just fine that way the once or twice a year I've needed it. DVD is a crazy medium, anyway. The pits eventually disappear, the disk has to be clean to work well and the whole physical medium model is just, well, OLD. I prefer streaming and/or digitizing to an HD. That internal SSD I mentioned earlier has 215 gig of video on it and gets used to stream that video to my Apple TV and watched on the big screen. Works very well for me. I've made a few movies, mostly of my travels, and have them on the SSD as well. Mostly with those I put them in the cloud so my children can see what their parents are doing as we travel. They say they appreciate it.

Once the Northern states took over control of Amazon Createspace, from South Carolina, I have no longer been able to deal with them, either. Our one chance to make Hollywood do anything but regurgitate its own sequels has finally been quelled, I see. PC can't do anything of substance and now MAC can't make the commections, at all.

I will TRY this, and see. Thanks for all your help, but I am still seeing that same gray brick wall.

And I imagine that my projects will STILL be grayed out, once I get to the actual part of converting anything.

No one ever addresses why this is.

Good luck with it. Stay optimistic.

 

[MightyGem]

The End.

 

[Beowulf54]

Thanks. MacInWin. I will try the BURN thing before attempting any TERMINAL brain surgery on my new Mac... and wrecking the whole freaking thing with a bad typing job...

7:50 PM

Downloaded BURN, and did the JOLIET thing but 2 gigs is the MAX size for this Joliet thingy, not my needed 4.43... But Maybe I can make 30 minte videos!!!

I'll let you know!


11:50 PM

Okay, I cut my movie down to 35 minutes, which really ticks me off to have to do.. and I ran it on 520 instead of 720 resolution, just to get it all under 2 gigs for this Joliet nonsense ( it won't take it any other way, even though other choices all would take 4.45 gigs and make it into a non-Joliet ISO... ) and it is now loading.

Again, I do thank you for your help in this regard!!!

 

[Beowulf54]

MightyGem

MacInWin says to be wary of Terminal, so I don't need to screw myself out of an entire and brand new computer trying to make something for a 'rival' PC computer to run, just to please that hostile takeover group at Amazon Createspace...

I will try the BURN thing. If I can find it.

I did actually have to put all of that into a folder, just to get it 'found' last time, however, it was GRAYED OUT when I summoned it to the front in DU.

And thanks for your help, as well!

 

[MightyGem]

You won't "wreck" anything with a typing error. You just won't get an iso file at the end of it.