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MMT-EZ is an easy and complete solution to take your iMovie project to DVD or VideoCD.
It does not claim to compete with professional applications,
but hey for FREE, all the basic features are there, from encoding to burning.

Just select a format and point to the QT reference .mov in you iMovie project folder.
The movie will be encoded to mpeg2 or mpeg1 and burned to disk.
Advanced options include stand-alone and parameter control of many functions.

Testing was done on a G5 with internal Pioneer SuperDrive 106D dvd-rw/cd-rw drive,
and a G4 with a firewire Que (Samsung Combo SM-304B) dvd+rw / cd-rw drives.
 
Due to current licensing with cdrecord, dvd burning is limited to 1GB. (hope to change that soon)

QuickStart Guide

Menu Items:
QuickStart_ReadMe - to get to this page.

Set Default Burner - Scan for Drives - will search for burning drives and prompt for a driver
The driver is used for CD burning only, generic-mcc or generic-mcc-raw works for most newer drives.
The last selected device and driver will be recalled on next start up, you can always run this menu to make changes.

Select Format:
DVD - standard compliant
Normally 720x480 (ntsc) or 720x576 (pal) @ 3.5-9.8 Mbit/sec
Audio will be encoded to mp2 @ 48.0 khz / 224 kBits/s unless changed in options.

XSVCD - non standard
Normally 720x480 (ntsc) or 720x576 (pal) @ 2.5-3.5 Mbit/sec
Audio will be encoded to mp 2 @ 44.1 khz / 224 kBits/s unless changed in options.

SVCD - standard complaint
Normally 480x480 (ntsc) or 480x576 (pal) @ 1.5-2.5 Mbit/sec
Audio will be encoded to mp2 @ 44.1 khz / 224 kBits/s unless changed in options.

XVCD - non standard
Normally 352x240 (ntsc) or 352x288 (pal) @ 1.5-3.5 Mbit/sec
Audio will be encoded to mp 2 @ 44.1 khz / 224 kBits/s unless changed in options.

VCD - standard complaint
Normally 352x240 (ntsc) or 352x288 (pal) @ 1.15 Mbit/sec
Audio will be encoded to mp2 @ 44.1 khz / 224 kBits/s unless changed in options.

Press Start:
You will be prompted to select:	
	1) a QuickTime movie file
	2) a destination output folder

DVD - will create a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, with VOB file inside.
		A dvd disk image (.img) is generated, then burn to disk using CDRECORD.
		Alternately, this image may be dropped into Toast set for Disk Image,
		or the _TS folders may dropped into Toast set for DVD.

SVCD / XSVCD / XVCD / VCD - will create a mulitplexed mpg.
		Cue/Bin files will be generated, these are sized to fit 650 or 700 meg disks if selected.
		A video cd disk will burn using CDRDAO.
		Alternately, the bin file may be dropped into Toast set for CD-ROM XA.

Note: disk imaging and burning are on by default, they may be turned of in the options.

Advanced Options:
Video Encoding - it is recommened to use the default value
  Bitrate - lower will use less disk space at the cost of quality, too high and your player may drop frames

Audio Encoding - these apply to all formats.
  Bitrate - allowable range 92-384 kBits/s
  Sampling - dvd must be 48.0 kHz, svcd & vcd must be 44.1 kHz
  		xsvcd & xvcd are not standard, it is what ever you player can handle without choking

Volume Label - this is the name of disk when mounted.
Note: must be all caps and less than 31 characters with no spaces

Fit to Disk  - is enabled for CD formats only, it will split the output over as many disk as needed.

Other:
Build Image - Will generate burnable disk image files for selected format.
		 When format is dvd, AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS folders are also created with the disk image.
		 For xsvcd, svcd, xvcd, and vcd formats, only cue/bin files are created.

Burn Disk - Will record media to DVD or CD-ROM XA as required for selected format.
	         Build Image must be enabled for this function to work,
	         A blank disk must be in the default drive with the Finder set to ignore the disk.
			 
Debug - If is recommended to set the Window Setting preferences for the Terminal to "Close the window" or "Close only if the shell exited cleanly".  Setting this switch will keep the terminal windows open during and after the process.  This will aid in trouble shooting errors.

Stand Alone Functions:
  Encode video - movie to mpeg1 (m1v) or mpeg2 (m2v) video stream
  Encode audio - mov, aiff or wav to mpeg 1 layer 2 (mp2) stream at selected bitrate and sampling
  Multiplex - audio and video to mpeg program (mpg) into the format selected in main window
  Build disk image - files from a selected muxed mpeg file
  Get info - about mpeg file will display the attributes about a m2v, mp2 or mpg file.
  Burn CD - burns cue/bin to cd-rom xa (compliant video cd)
  Erase - blank or erase a cd-rw or dvd-rw. Leave tray open, application will close the drive to erase disk.
  Burn DVD - burns dvd image to dvd. 
    
Note: 	For stand alone functions, select format from main window before pressing the function.
	You will be prompted for the file locations, the Start button on the main window is not used.
	For burning, a blank disk must be in the default drive with the Finder set to ignore the disk.
	
More Notes:
MMT-EZ requires Mac OS 10.1 or higher.
You source movie should be as high of quality as possible, use tthe reference .mov inside the iMovie project folder.
If you need to export as a QuickTime movie, use a high quality codec, such as Motion Jpeg A.
Keep file names and paths short , avoid special characters in the names of files and folders.
MMT-EZ will automatically detect dual processor systems and utilize both during video encoding.
Not all dvd players will support xsvcd, svcd, or xvcd formats.
Burning drives must be empty or have blank media to be found by the burning functions.
The Finder must not have control of a blank disk, tell Finder to ignore the blank media.
Recommended: set  "System Preferences"-> "Hardware" -> "CDs & DVDs" -> 
"When you insert a blank CD/DVD" set to "Ask what to do" or "Ignore". 
Stand alone functions do not check for standard compliance mpeg video and audio.
QuickTime cannot play video cds, however VideoLan and other apps may be able to play the mpegs without controls.
In stand-alone dvd players, a dvd should auto start, pressing play will start a video cd.

Legal:
MMT-EZ is an AppleScript Pro GUI wrapper for the following open source binaries.
mpeg2enc, mp2enc, and mplex are from the open source project mjpeg hosted a sourceforge.net
ifogen and tocgen are part of the open source project dvdauthor at sourceforge.net
mkisofs and cdrecord are a part of the open source project cdrtools hosted at freshmeat.net 
vcdxgen and vcdxbuild are part of the open source project vcdimager hosted at vcdimager.org
mpginfo is part of the open source project mpgtx found at sourceforge.net
cdrdao open source project is hosted at sourceforge.net

Change Log:
25-Jan-04 Version 1.0 first public release
12-Jan-04 concept of project started