Just switched over from a dual athlon to a dual G5 as my primary computer. Trust me, it made sense. What I'm having trouble duplicating is a common procedure I used in the PC world to go from a digital fansub to a DVD (this also applies to music video creation using fansub source, which sometimes is my only option if I can't get something in Region 1 yet).
On my old system, I'd do something like this:
1) Matte video down 10% (so subtitles aren't cut off on TV) with VD.
2) Frameserve out of VD into something that can encode MPEG2.
3) Collect MPEG2 files together into a DVD authoring program.
4) Enjoy the fruits of my labor on television from a DVD player.
What I'm a little lost on with OSX is what software to use. I have MPlayerOSX (version 2 beta 5) installed and it works fine (at least windowed, not full screen due to dual head it seems) playing back DivX and XviD sources. However that's all it is, a player, and so I don't know if I can get it to frameserve anything to another application.
As far as I know, none of my other applications can accept this sort of source (iMovie, iDVD, Toast) and furthermore I have no idea what to use on the mac to matte the video (which is absolutely needed because fansubbers put the subtitles so close to the edges you can't see them on TV).
Once I get this stuff to MPEG2, I also need to figure out how to burn it to DVD without a program that thinks it needs to re-encode anything you feed it.
Horribly newbie questions I know, but anyone with the patience to reply, THANKS!
