Can it be done?

[Wraithstrike]

Once again I check in with technological woes.

My collection of shows has extended to include Garo, Faiz, Gransazer, Kabuto thus far and Avatar season 1. Here's the situation: Burning a DVD normally leaves me only with the option to make a data disc, which by itself is not bad. However, a new idea came up.

My parents run a local access tv show, and to do so they take the material they record and burn it through a high grade studio quality apple powerbook. I figure I could get DVDs burning right and faster if I could find someway to firewire the material to the apple and burn it there.

Is it in fact possible to connect an old slow PC to a newer, quicker apple and burn DVD's that way? If so, how? I would like to bring these series back with me and have the capability to play in a DVD player as well as a laptop.

So I reiterate: What is the standard, if such a term can be used, method of connecting an Apple and a PC to burn dvds through the apple?

 

[Sage Shinigami]

Once again I check in with technological woes.

My collection of shows has extended to include Garo, Faiz, Gransazer, Kabuto thus far and Avatar season 1. Here's the situation: Burning a DVD normally leaves me only with the option to make a data disc, which by itself is not bad. However, a new idea came up.

My parents run a local access tv show, and to do so they take the material they record and burn it through a high grade studio quality apple powerbook. I figure I could get DVDs burning right and faster if I could find someway to firewire the material to the apple and burn it there.

Is it in fact possible to connect an old slow PC to a newer, quicker apple and burn DVD's that way? If so, how? I would like to bring these series back with me and have the capability to play in a DVD player as well as a laptop.

So I reiterate: What is the standard, if such a term can be used, method of connecting an Apple and a PC to burn dvds through the apple?

I would guess that a simple USB port wouldn't be enough since its different OS, so you might need a program of some sort. Presuming that's even possible, you'd STILL need to convert your avi files into .vobs, and for that you use afterdawn.com.

 

[Bouken Black]

Good luck and that's the gonna be one hell of a payment if you mess up the equipment. :shocked:

Off-Topic: By the way, what's the name of the show or is it local? If it's popular, you can always make a Wiki. Just don't get too personal.

 

[Blackbird]

Once again I check in with technological woes.

My collection of shows has extended to include Garo, Faiz, Gransazer, Kabuto thus far and Avatar season 1. Here's the situation: Burning a DVD normally leaves me only with the option to make a data disc, which by itself is not bad. However, a new idea came up.

My parents run a local access tv show, and to do so they take the material they record and burn it through a high grade studio quality apple powerbook. I figure I could get DVDs burning right and faster if I could find someway to firewire the material to the apple and burn it there.

Is it in fact possible to connect an old slow PC to a newer, quicker apple and burn DVD's that way? If so, how? I would like to bring these series back with me and have the capability to play in a DVD player as well as a laptop.

So I reiterate: What is the standard, if such a term can be used, method of connecting an Apple and a PC to burn dvds through the apple?

I would guess that a simple USB port wouldn't be enough since its different OS, so you might need a program of some sort. Presuming that's even possible, you'd STILL need to convert your avi files into .vobs, and for that you use afterdawn.com.

I'd think you'd need an ethernet connection. That would probably work. Just transfer it to the Powerbook and burn it there. You'd have to turn on the filesharing on the Powerbook.

It shouldn't hurt it at all. :eyebrow:

Check your PMs. :thumbs:

 

[toranoko]

Funny, I move my stuff from my Mac to my Dell to burn stuffs. :laugh:

As for standard... Who knows. I simply hook up an ethernet cable between the two and transfer the files before burning... Apple.com was my friend and I found out how to connect there. (Windows support was lacking on Microsoft's site though -_-). I honestly had a hard time figuring out how to connect the two though, which makes me feel really dumb. :laugh:

A portable hard drive might be smarter though... If you have the cash.

And as for the VOB thing, the Mac should already have some programs that'll do it for you. I always used iDVD to throw my video files together for DVDs. You can burn straight from avi to dvd (well, technically no, but it'll do the in between stuff automatically).

 

[Sage Shinigami]

Funny, I move my stuff from my Mac to my Dell to burn stuffs. :laugh:

As for standard... Who knows. I simply hook up an ethernet cable between the two and transfer the files before burning... Apple.com was my friend and I found out how to connect there. (Windows support was lacking on Microsoft's site though -_-). I honestly had a hard time figuring out how to connect the two though, which makes me feel really dumb. :laugh:

A portable hard drive might be smarter though... If you have the cash.

And as for the VOB thing, the Mac should already have some programs that'll do it for you. I always used iDVD to throw my video files together for DVDs. You can burn straight from avi to dvd (well, technically no, but it'll do the in between stuff automatically).

Haha, you serious? Why doesn't Mac mention that **** in their commercials? That's actually a useful feature Windows don't got (at least, not that I know of--if there's a program that burns from avi to DVD for Windows automatically, I don't know about it), unlike the bullshit they mention in the commercials they have now.

 

[toranoko]

Hey, they advertise the iLife stuff... They just don't say what everything does. And I'd assume there is a program that'll burn the files on Windows, but I'm sure it costs an arm and a leg.

I haven't used the feature exactly though, since the Mac mini I have didn't come with a DVD burner. So I just "burn" to an IMG... or was it an ISO file? Hmm.. It's very useful though.

 

[KamenRiderZero]

Yeah, a simple ethernet connection would be enough. When my iBook isn't messed up (like it is now, sadly), I usually have that plus two PCs(one is the family PC and the other is my hand built custom) on the same network and I can easily transfer between them.