LaCie Slim Ext. DVD+/-RW and iDVD

[OWDLVR]

Tomorrow I'm switching back to Mac from PC after a good 7 year hiatus. Hey, better late then never.

I've picked up a used G4 12" power book, and will be purchasing a LaCie Firewire portable DVD burner:

LaCie Product Information

I've searched the forums here, as well as the general 'net and can't determine if this burner is going to work with iDVD, or if I'll need to use a patch. Can anyone enlighten me?

-Dave

 

[rman]

I have read that with PatchBurn you can burn DVDs using iDVD 4, but I don't know about iDVD 5.

 

[OWDLVR]

Alrighty then...Guess I'll post up after I give 'er a shot

-Dave

 

[trpnmonkey41]

PatchBurn will allow you to use iDVD4 with the external burner. You do not need anything extra to use it with iDVD5

 

[rman]

I don't think you will have any problems. I have an older LaCie DVD burner that works very will. I will be getting an external LaCie d2 DVD±RW with LightScribe, when I get my new system.

 

[richieg]

I am looking to buy my first mac and am torn between the 12" and 14" ibooks. If I am making movies and using imovie and idvd5 does that mean that with patchburn I can send the movie directly from idvd to the external drive as I am thinking about 1 of these with lightscribe also.
Do patches like this impact warranty and does this drive require special disks for the lightscribe feature?
This will be my first mac so excuse the questions if they seem basic

 

[trpnmonkey41]

I don't think you even need to use PatchBurn with iDVD5. I think you can burn directly to the external and if not you can save the project as a disk image and burn in Disk Utility
PatchBurn does not void warranty.
To use the LightScribe you need to purchase lightscribe dvd's

 

[OWDLVR]

Got it up and running, with everything but iDVD. I can burn CD's and DVD's no problem using the external burner...BUT, I can't install iDVD because it does a system check and tells me I don't have a superdrive, so I can't install.

How do I get around this?

-Dave

 

[trpnmonkey41]

iDVD will only install on computers with a built in SuperDrive. You can try downloading pacifist to directly install iDVD

 

[rman]

There should be an option in the install, that will allow you to install it.

 

[OWDLVR]

Where would one find Pacifist? Just moved back to Mac after a 6 year hiatus.

-D

 

[trpnmonkey41]

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743