Making Video Cds With Mac

Making VideoCDs on your Mac Creating a VideoCD using macintosh is not a problem in any way. Although it might be a bit confusing, that is why I wrote this guide. Let’s start with some information. The Application used to make VideoCDs is B’s Recorder GOLD (version 1.0.8). The thing is that it’s only available in Japanese witch makes this a little more complicated. The best thing to do is to install the Japanese language-kit, included on the MacOS 9 CD. This will help you to recognize numbers and parts of the text that might be useful. The other program you will need it VCD Jelly. (I’m honestly impressed by the guy who wrote this program and would like to get in contact with him as soon as possible. So if you are reading this, please E-mail to jjabba@mail.com) Treating the MPEG file The first thing you will have to do is to let VCD Jelly extract the MPEG data from your MPEG file. VCD Jelly will most likely tell you that the source file you’ve selected already is an MPEG file. Don’t bather, proceed anyway, otherwise B’s recorder will not be able to handle the file. (Why I don’t know, but lets just accept it.) Drag your MPEG movie to this field Make sure to choose “Mpeg” Prepearing the VCD Now comes the tricky part. In B’s recorder Gold there is a easy menu and a working menu.You can use either one, but I prefer to use the easy menu. Once your file has been processed in VCD Jelly, put the files in the “put in extension folder” folder into... yes you were right, the extension folder. Restart your Macintosh. Now launch B’s Recorder Gold. If everything works you should get two windows on your screen. One of them will look like this. Choose the icon I’ve marked with red. The following window will be containing information in Japanese, just press this icon to continue. The third window is where you add your MPEG files.You can write both single and multitrack VCDs. Just drag the MPEG file/files into the white area in the window shown below. They will appear on the disc in the order you’ve dragged them. When you add an MP…