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A friend of mine stopped by with an iMovie homemade DVD yesterday, which plays in my TV DVD player.
I want to use my Windows XP box to convert it to some smaller format that I can put up on the web in a few pieces, in either Mindows Media or Quicktime. What is the best way to do this? Which software should I "buy?" Is there any hope of anything free to use for the conversion?
Well, I'm of no help on your exact question, really, but your friend could convert it to Quicktime on his Mac without doing much of anything and then e-mail it to you. That would certainly involve the absolute least amount of work, just that he'd have to do the work rather than you.
Well, I thought about that, but he just left for Whistler for a few weeks and took his Mac with him...
I have another friend with a Powerbook that's coming up this weekend - can I stick a DVD in it and use iMovie to do the same thing, or do you need the original iMovie proprietary file?
Yes you can convert w/ imovie, if its imovie and not idvd. You'll have to import it as a clip into imovie first if its dvd and not .mpeg/.mov already. If its already dvd I suggest you use Roxio toast. Or Quicktime Pro.
Freakin' windows users, get w/ the program!
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