ok,.. i have a pc and a mac.. i have a rewritable in my pc with adaptec directcd software.. now i want to know how i can put that cd in my mac after i've put a few quicktime clips in there for editing im my mac computer..
i just got the mac and im not that good with it.. just wanted to know if its possible to do that..because when i put the cd in, it asks me if i want to eject or initialize the cd.. i dont have any wreritable for my mac though........is that the problem?
also.. another question... how the heck do i minimize a program in mac?? (for example, photoshop or DV iMovie)
thx
When you burn a cd on the pc you need to burn it for iso9660, I dont think the macintosh will read joliet formated disks(which is usually the default format for burning software on windows). Also a couple other notes, "iso9660 v.1" only writes out 8.3 character names, so if you dont want the names of your files truncated then use "iso9660 v.2" which allows for 31 character names. Not sure if directcd will write iso9660 2, I know it writes iso9660 1. Try out Nero or another burning software if it doesnt do this, or just keep your file names to 8.3.
Otherwise all you quicktime clips should transfer over fine between the mac and pc. Another option you might want to look into is networking you two machines together so you dont have to write a cd everytime to transfer files between the two, this can be done with a software package called "Dave" from thursby software.
also.. another question... how the heck do i minimize a program in mac?? (for example, photoshop or DV iMovie)
thx
To minimize on the macos9 and below just click on the little dash button in the top right hand corner of the window, it is a little different then the pc, it does something called window shades, you will see the reason for the name when you do it. Another option is to go into the control panels > appearance > "Options" tab, and check the "Double-click title bar to collapse windows" box. Then you can just double click the top bar and it will window shade.
Deke
ok cool.. now i know for sure that its possible.. so how do i burn for "iso9660"? what i do is i just "drop" my quicktime movies into the cd and close the cd down so it wont be written to again..there is no option or anything about iso9660. can you tell me how to do it? is there a website that tells me how its done.. im not an expert in computers so im not really sure...thx in advance
If you are using Easy CD Creator, go to File - CD layout Properties. Change Joliet to ISO9660. Make sure that the name of your files fits the ISO format of 8.3 - that is, 8 characters for the name, one period, and 3 for the extension(cowparts.jpg, for example) . Any variance in this, and your name will be clipped to adhere to this rule. For image sequences, this will ruin your sequence and it will be unusable.
This also means that if you have an image sequence the numbers must be included in the prefix (the '8' part) of the filename (cows0056.tga, for example). As you may have guessed, Maya 3 does not render using this file naming convention, as it is only used on NT systems and Maya was on IRIX first (Maya 4 will have this feature). The closest you can get is name.###.ext, where there are two periods. To adjust the sequence to adhere to the ISO or DOS file naming convention, or to just remove the extra period, use a file renaming utility like Seqence 911 or Rename It, both found on this site.
I will add this to the Living Maya FAQ.
To minimize just one window on a Mac, just double click on the title bar and it will shirink until just the title bar is visible. To Hide a whole application, click on the name of the program at the top right and go to "Hide (current program)". To bring it back, go to the top right again. A hotkey for this is hold down the "option" key and click on the desktop...this will do the same thing.
10 PRINT "kemijo is the best"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Hey it worked!! Thank You all for your replies 
Macs will read Joliet, but they will truncate the filenames with the standard ~1 format (actually, this is stored in the file tables along with the long file names).
That said, it's much easier if you stick with the 8.3 
Sean
Yes, they'll read Joliet, but isn't this something added recently (like in OS 9)? I'm pretty sure that before we got our G4s we had to use ISO. But anyway, doing it on the PC is a good safe measure, cause you'll see the truncated filenames before you burn them. Plus, your files are readable just about anywhere.
What do you mean by "stored in the file table"? Is there a way to retrieve the actual filename after it's been truncated? And is there a way to do it for many files simultaneously (like image sequences)? Just curious...I'd like ot know how to rescue screwed up files, if possible.
10 PRINT "kemijo is the best"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
As far as I remember back to those days, Joliet has always been backwards compatible. Even loading up in ye old DOS (not "windows-DOS") will show the truncated file names.
I do agree, PC burns only puh-lease, of course unless you're going for an audio CD master.. no one seems to be able to get their act together with PQ subcode on a PC 
Sean
