Hi People, I've been a user of PTE for many years and am delighted that Igor & his team are busy translating PTE to run on Macs. Over the years I've created several long running slideshows using PTE which I'd now like to be able to output to DVD. Fine, no problem.... erm - only catch is that I want to take the AVI/DV stream and use it within Apple's iDVD software, or merged into a longer fusion AV of video and stills mastered in Final Cut Express. To try maintain high quality as far as possible, I've been exporting as hiDef mp4's. I've tried exporting using various formats and each and every time I take it into iDVD, iDVD cannot convert the movie and fails. Quicktime can play the H.264 movie though, and they also play fine on the PC and on VMWare. I've also tried importing the PTE movies in various formats into Final Cut Pro, and also to trying to transcode/convert them using MpegStreamclip. All of the conversions fail to work. I've tried using MPEGStreamclip to capture the output from PTE's export to AVI... but only sounds transfers across. I've just tried an export and upload to Vimeo (killing the upload), and that file works and can be transcoded - is this the only way...? And what about true HD at 1080p? (For future cuts to BlueRay?) Can anyone help as to what sort of output from PTE should be used to produce an intermediate file I can use in iDVD/FCE or even FCP if needed? What settings or export option is best? I've several shows, one of which is close to 30 minutes in length. and don't want to have to recreate the slideshows in Fotomagico, but I'm getting to the point on giving up on the PTE output (. TIA Nick
