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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 03-16-2001 09:06 PM

Or I could just burn it on the PC! Let's face it, the Mac is not a good OS. Now Windows, on the other hand, has NEVER given ANYONE and ounce of trouble! It is perfect. Microsoft always makes sure Windows is completely bug free and will work with any peripherals you may have without any sort of conflicts or trouble. That is why it works so well and is 5 billion times better than that Mac! You cannot deny Windows superiority over the Mac! The Mac has troubles even turning on whereas Windows will wipe your ass for you!

Hail Hitler, er I mean Windows!

Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-16-2001 09:21 PM

Y'know, I never thought to use Windows to wipe my ass but come to think of it, that sounds like a mighty fine use for it!

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 03-17-2001 05:33 PM

Yo, Randy! Tell me more about this "Disc Burner" program. My CD Burner is actually a CDRW unit. Would it let me drag and drop files, and also delete them just as if I was using a really big Zip disc? That would kick much ass!

Also, is "Disc Burner" a free download from Apple? I am assuming that it is since they have free music, video editing, FTP, and DVD authoring programs. It is really hard for me to hate Apple, even when they do something stupid.

Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-17-2001 06:50 PM

What's the point of the rewritable disks, anyway? The concept might have made sense when CD-Rs cost $20 or so, but at this point, it just seems silly to spend 5-10x the cost of the write-once blanks to get the rewritable blanks that often can't be read by standard drives...

Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-17-2001 07:40 PM

I haven't really put it through its paces yet as I've only had my burner for about 3 weeks... two of which I have been out on the road.

Disk burner seems to be really nothing more than a set of system extensions, etc. that allows the OS to understand CDs as if they were disks. It's free for the downloading from Apple's website. If iTunes will burn to your drive then Disk Burner will, too.

When you put in a disk a dialog pops up that asks you to "prepare" the disk. You name the disk and select the format from a pop-up. Then the disk's icon comes up on your desktop. You treat it like a regular disk by dragging files into it as usual. The difference is that when you want to write the data you have to click on a "burn" button and write the data all at once.

Again, I haven't used it a whole lot. I just used it to start backing up my system so I've only made a couple of burns with it. I just tested it before writing this... when you put in a blank disk it can tell if it's a CD-R or a CD-RW. I didn't go any farther than that because I don't have anything "important" enough to write yet. When I get the time to do it, I'm going to make a "full" backup of my system. (Right after I get done finishing up two weeks worth of expense reports and "PM" reports.) The last two weeks were kinda' hellish. I would get to one place then get called to the next before I could get done with the first.

Once I can get settled I'm going to REALLY put Disk Burner through a workout!

Tod J. Weitzel
Film Handler

Posts: 18
From: San Jose, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 03-18-2001 03:48 AM

quote:
Video CD is limited to 352x240, which really isn't anything impressive to say the least. There are Quicktimes on this site with a higher resolution than that. What is the resolution of SVCD? Curious.

I believe it is the same as normal VCD.

In case this is heading down the path of a format war (which is not only one I don't stand a chance of winning but is utterly silly on a film bbs), I am not attempting to say VCD is better than DVD - I'm merely advocating that perhaps it's not as bad as it is made out to be.

-Tw?

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