ITunes Accidentally in Studio Pro Palette w/Assets folder

Is there anyway to delete the iTunes from there. It's probably making my DVD longer than the 75min than it really is...
n.

Nope nothing to do with it, it is just listed as potential source material (unless you dragged the music onto a track or elsewhere in your project)
Take a look at the other post, you need to encode your assets

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About the OP question, I never had a problem using the computerwhile building and/or encoding other than my CPU getting slow. But I prefer not using the computer while burning DVDs.
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Hey, great spelling !!!! The same for you !
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When I export this as MPG2 best quality and import it into DVD studio pro, formatting for SD (I have to make an SD dvd from my HD source material), the quality looks AWFUL. like a cheap camcorder.
Running out of options....

A HD DVD will only play back in your Mac and the now obsolete Toshiba DVD-HD set top devices.
A standard DVD will play back on any DVD Video device.
the quality looks AWFUL.
You are compressing to MPEG 2 and throwing a lot of pixel information away -going from 1920x1080 to 720x480. There's no way that it can look the same.

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Estimated file size: 4.34 GB
Video Encoder
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    Height: 480
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Dix Moser
[email protected]
FCP Studio
PowerMac 1.8G 3G mem 250G HD
750 G ext. Firewire drive (where media is stored)

If I may chime in...
I'm a little confused on the "what plays what" part, but all that really matters is what DVDSP sees/plays.
I've worked on a system like yours and what I'd recommend is:
1. NEVER export via Compressor. It's just ungodly slow on anything less than a Quad. Export a self contained QuickTime Movie using the first export option and use that to feed Compressor.
2. Segment your output into manageable clips (I like 15-20 minutes) both to perfect the encoding and so you aren't re-encoding the whole show if something goes sour. It will all play fine as long as it's all in the same DVDSP timeline.
From what you describe, I'm thinking you're on an early version of Compressor that had A-Pack as the AC-3 encoder. This is no biggie, I mention it mostly to verify. Early Compressor was good too.
Make maybe a 5 minute piece to tune up. Just export as normal, then into Compressor. Your encoding values seem about right. Get the AV pair into DVDSP and it should play. I'm guessing that part of your problem is that the processor is fighting to handle the project size. Build the test clip project and look at it in DVD Player to view what would have been burned. If all looks OK, go for it. If not, bring back the results for discussion. This should be a snap, it's just a really big project. Keep your head up, I had a friend do a 225-minute disk on his G5...

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Why are you doing a QT conversion?
And what you converting to?
h.264? Won't work.
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Hi Javi,
thanks for your message.
I was reading the discussion here and it looks like this explains the same question:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/4987864#4987864
meanwhile i have exported the project using compressor with settings for DVD. this time DVD studio pro seems to import the video fine and is able to burn.
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soundman1024 wrote:
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Program crashes whenever accessing my movies directory. It contains mostly HD content in MOV format. There are some MP4 and M4V in there too.
To check this I copied an MOV, MP4, and M4V into a separate directory. I added this folder to the Video tab of the Palette in DVDSP and same crash occurs until I remove all but MOV content.
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I was going to let this go doc, but....
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Ever since I upgraded the latest Quicktime Update I cannot load video assets into DVD Studio Pro. The program keeps locking up.
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When you try to load video assets from the palette, the spinning ball just comes up. I didnt leave it that long before force quiting. But the poster left if for an hour.
I'm using final cut studio. But it all happened on my imac and macbook pro right after the quicktime upgrade.
I did find a work around, which I posted above. Instead of importing thru the palette, just import by clicking file / import/ asset. But the heck would cause the palette to lock up like that? When you force quit dvd studio it says "not responding" next to the program name. I've tried all different video files on my desktop, one at a time. But I dont think the program even gets that far, it just locks up as soon as you hit the palette area of the screen.
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Hello All,
I'm so dangerously close to having this whole thing down, that the challenges are becoming excrutiatingly painful.
I've completed my edit.
I've exported my FCP edit to Quicktime.
I've downloaded Flip4Mac
I've exported a version of the FCP to a WMV file format.
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Hi
She can't play it on her PC, nor can I at home.
Ussually it's a DVD player software matter. Windows Media Player is not intended for DVD playing. Did you use it when it failed? Try with the free and cross plataform VLC Player.
Some threads in DVDSP forum about PC compatibility (USe the search feature and you'll find a lot of them):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6020916
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6095226
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374894
EDIT: SOMETHING ELSE
* DVD Authoring/burning tips thread *
Alberto
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DVD Studio Pro 4 crashes every time I try to import

Everything has been working smoothly for many, many video projects until last night:
-finish the edit in FCP7
-send to Compressor
-convert to .ac3 audio and .m2v video files in Best DVD 90 min option
-open DVDSP4 project
-import ,m2v video file as asset is no problem
-as soon as I click on the .ac3 audio file in the import window, DVDSP crashes with a massive error message.
I redid the workflow using little changes like different FCP project sequence to send to Compressor, different DVDSP project, different folder in Finder, and even tried Best DVD 120 min setting in Compressor... all have same result of an instant DVDSP crash when I try to import the .ac3 audio file.
Any thoughts?
The error message is super long, but here is the start:
=============
Process:         DVD Studio Pro [290]
Path:            /Applications/DVD Studio Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/DVD Studio Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.dvdstudiopro
Version:         4.2.2 (431.40)
Build Info:      DSP-4315400~54
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [114]
Date/Time:       2011-04-29 06:25:13.090 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          149946 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           15
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 32261 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   15
Anonymous UUID:                      5CA8E333-B21D-4A79-A64D-504C20758544
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000261
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.QuickTime               0x97d540ef PrivateQTGetMoviePlayabilityState_priv + 62
1   com.apple.QuickTime               0x97d540a1 QTGetMoviePlayabilityState_priv + 33
2   ...ickTimeComponents.component    0x94edf8bc internalDoAction + 9849
3   ...ickTimeComponents.component    0x94ecebdc _MCIdle + 61
4   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x969cc014 CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStorage(char**, ComponentParameters*, long (*)(), unsigned long) + 54

After a cup of coffee this morning I thought of the obvious: the audio in FCP was corrupt for some reason so I made an AIFF version of the audio, replaced the old audio, and then sent to Compressor. Everything has worked fine and I have imported into DVDSP with no problem.
Sorry for the slow thought process.
Thank you coffee.

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Running latest FCP Studio apps. Have a sequence fully edited and mixed (via Soundtrack) and sent the file to Compressor for output to DVD Studio Pro to create the DVD. I used the H.264 for DVDPro compression template (H.264 for DVDPro - 120 min) setting as provided by Apple. The compression file worked like a charm. I have the file and it plays beautifully in QT player. However when I try to add the asset or import it into DVDStudio Pro it says it is in an incompatible format. What gives? Shouldn't the template know how to render/compress the movie if the template setting is supposed to be in DVDStudio Pro format? Scratching my head on this one. Any pointers would be of great help.
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That would be a reasonable except that when I used those preset settings the file was unplayable by Quicktime OR DVDSP. QTPlayer wouldn't play it (as it was unrecognized file format) and DVDSP wouldn't import it. So I am at a loss on how to use compressor with the DVD setting templates. All I need is to compress the 3.5 minute movie file in a format that DVD Studio Pro will import and allow me to build and press to a DVD for family members to watch. I should add that I exported (via the Quicktime option in FCP) a movie file and then brought it into DVDSP but when I built the DVD it encoded the movie file in a very weird way (strange flicker when close up shots played on screen). When I just tried to change the encoding settings (in DVDSP) to allow for the least amount of effect on my file (basically the movie is only around 500mb uncompressed so a 4.7 blank dvd has more than enough room) DVDSP encoding still encoded the file in the strange flickering artifact manner.
The project is basically a simple menu with two options one to view the 3.5 minute movie file and the second is a 5 min behind the scenes explanation of the project by the director. All together the project file in DVDStudio Pro is around 650mb. So, the question now becomes: should I be bothering with Compressor at all and if I eschew its use then what can I do in DVDStudio Pro's encoding to have the least effect on the movie file (which plays fine without any flickering artifact before DVDSP gets its hands on it to build the DVD).
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