3rd Party iDVD Themes

Being a new convert from the PC, I was very excited to be able to do a great looking DVD using iDVD themes. Unfortunately the themes apple provided are very limiting and so I was quickly on the google hunt for some more. To my surprise I found very little on the net and what sites I did find were from various searches as well as links from other sites.
I decided to put up a page that listed all the iDVD Theme sites that I found hoping it will help others find what they are after. As I find more (or others tell me of more), I will update this list.
http://www.ingenios.com.au/Apple/tabid/85/Default.aspx
Hope this helps many of the creatively challenged (such as myself) that want more than what apple supplies, but don't have the skills to create their own.
Enjoy.

Thanks for the advice and the welcome.
I have purchased some themepaks from dvdthemepak.com and am waiting for them to arrive so I can play with them. It's unfortunate that you had to repurchase the themes for the new versions.
I am hoping to really learn how the themes (iDVD/iPhoto etc) are made, so, with the help of some graphic artists, create a collection for people to download. If there is more competition for themes, then prices come down and service goes up.... we will all benefit. Well that's the theory!
I hope more artists come out of the woodwork to help the community.

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I'm looking for third-party iDVD themes that will work with iDVD 6. Specifically, I'm looking for an "Extreme sports" theme. Are there any available?
I have checked the following with no luck so far:
http://www.idvdthemepak.com
http://www.idvdthemes.com
http://www.idvdtheme-tastic.com
http://www.keynotepro.com
Thanks!

There are no third party themes or trailers for iMovie that I am aware of.
Apple's Motion (available from the App Store for $50) will enable you to create your own motion graphics, themes, titles, transitions, and what not. It is a Pro tool with a big learning curve, but it is quite capable. It is fully integrated into Final Cut Pro X. It is not integrated into iMovie, but you could save a Motion project as a QuickTime file and import to iMovie as an Event. You would have to do this with any third party tool.

How do I get my iWork'09 3rd party Keynote themes into Keynote 6.0?

1. I had iWork '09 installed on my computer from the old installation disk. It was not clear at the keynote that I would receive the updates for free as I already owned them. I was expecting to see the updates when I opened up the App Store, but they were not there which gave the impression that I was SOL since I didn't purchase them through the App Store. I even received the message "[App name] is already installed, purchase anyway?", but that message is cryptic and not clear that I was going to receive the update, so I wound up purchasing the iWork apps again, just to wake up this morning to find out that I should have received them for free. I am truly hoping for a refund, because at $20 each, that's a big difference between that and free.
2. I opened up keynote to play with the new features, but because the internal architecture is different, it no long references my old themes folder in Library > Application Support > iWork > Keynote. I have tried copying the files to other permutations of possible reference folders in the global and user libraries, but have had no success. These 3rd party themes were not cheap either. I'm sure there is a way to get them to show up in the Keynote Theme Selector, but I haven't stumbled on it yet. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for the link to the troubleshooting tips! It contained the correct answer which is:
"If your documents or changes still don’t appear, try creating a new document on your iOS device, and then check again for existing documents from iCloud to appear".
I created a test document in Pages and when I returned to my documents all the documents from iCloud reappeared.

5800XM 3rd party s/w prob

hi friends
I have installed 3rd party 5800xm theme. After installation it si not showing my mobile menu. So i decided to change the theme, but could not as no menu is showing. So I soft reset the mobile. After that when I wanted to go to theme menu the mobile is getting swiched off every time. i cant go to the theme menu and change/ uninstall the undesired software.
Please help me..................
thanks

Download and install the latest version of PC suite from..
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/pc-suites
Connect the phone to PC and open PC Suite .. goto Install Applications...
Select the Application / Themes / Games you want to remove in the Right Hand side window and then click 'Delete' (Bin icon) at the top...
BTW soft reset must have un-installed anything and everything that you had installed on the Phone Memory.

I have a brand new iMac that does not have iDVD. Made a move on iMovie installed a 3rd party burn prog. but DVD won't playback on my regular dvd player. Need to burn one that will. Help!

My new iMac did not come with iDVD as they are not using iDVD any longer. I made a movie that I needed to put on a DVD that would play on any external DVD player. After calling Apple twice, they recommened a 3rd party program so I downloaded "Burn-osx" and made the DVD; however when i insert it into my player connected to the TV it gives the message "disk error --playback feature may not be available on this disk". Ok--now what? I am up against a time line here--need the DVD for a graduation party! Help! What am I not doing correctly?

I have a brand new iMac
If you are still within your 15 day return period. Call Apple they will sent out iDVD at no charge. (There are no realistic substitutes.)
Nicely explain that you may return the computer without iDVD. That usually does the trick. You MUST speak to a senior advisor to get a free copy. The first tier people cannot do it.
408-996-1010
800-692-7753
If that doesn't work you can purchase iLife 11 (includes iDVD) on disk.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
they recommened a 3rd party program so I downloaded "Burn-osx"
Yes, there are programs that will put a movie on a DVD. I have tried most of the other substitutes including Toast, Burn, and others. None of them come anywhere near the ease-of-use and power of iDVD. IDVD is specifically designed to work with iMovie. Get iDVD.

Will iDVD 6 burn a dual layer with 3rd party burners

G'day from Oz.
I've posted similar to this under the iDVD 5 forum, as this forum wasn't started, but no answer yet. Hopefully people browsing here have updated to iLife 6.
Quote from .... http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/
"Go for the burn.
Once you finish your DVD masterpiece, only one step remains. Burning it. Thanks to stellar compatibility, iDVD 6 makes the big burn a painless process.
With support for a wide variety of DVD media formats — including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL — iDVD 6 teams up with a compatible SuperDrive or third-party DVD burner to offer you more media options than ever. You heard right: iDVD lets you burn using compatible third-party DVD burners.
iDVD even lets you archive projects as disc images. Saved this way, your projects are extremely portable and take up less space, and are read-only. What’s more, they’re already encoded, so you can quickly burn them to DVD whenever you have a free moment or a burner handy".
end Quote.
** Note the 'DVD+R DL'. **
Does this mean that burning a dual layer project with dual layer 3rd party burners will be supported?
I've updated to 10.4.4, but my Sony dual layer burner still shows as 'Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)', in 'About this Mac'. The 'unsupported' means 'no dual layer burning' as far as I know. Also, I believe dual burning is only supported from within the OS itself? True or not?
Let's see who's first to try the new iDVD 6 out with a 3rd party burner & dual layer disk. If it works, it means iDVD 6 really does support third party burners.
Please post results.
Regards
Santa
sp 1.8 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)
sp 1.8 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4)

G'day.
Further to my post a week ago re this subject, from the iDVD 6 help pages.
Quote
Newer SuperDrive optical drives in Macintosh computers can burn discs in DVD+R DL (Double Layer) format. Double-layer discs store almost twice as much content as single-layer discs, making them a great choice for large projects.
To see if your computer's SuperDrive can burn DVD+R DL discs, choose Project > Project Info. If you see 8.0 GB (Double Layer) in the DVD Type pop-up menu, you can use these discs for your project.
To burn a project to a DVD+R DL disc:
Choose Project > Project Info and choose 8.0 GB (Double Layer) from the DVD Type pop-up menu.
Select the encoder setting you want to use. If you have more than 120 minutes of content, select Best Quality.
Click OK.
Click the Burn button (shown above).
Insert the disc when you see the prompt.
If your project is small enough to fit on a single-layer disc and you insert a double-layer disc, you see a dialog giving you the option to change the media type. You can cancel the burn and start again, or insert a new disc and continue.
You should always burn double-layer discs directly from iDVD and not from a disc image. Double-layer discs burned from a disc image may cause playback issues in some DVD players, such as freezing during playback.
End quote
The last sentence is interesting, as the commonly suggested method of burning Dual layer discs is by first creating a disc image, then burning with Toast or Disk Utility.
Also, my Sony shows up as supporting 8 Gig in iDVD 6, but still shows as 'unsupported' in System Profiler.
Regards
Santa
sp 1.8 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 3 x 300Gb Seagates, Epson 3490 scanner, Epson 830 printer

Pc is not recognising PDF file ( icon ) in emails and to open these it is loading a 3rd party program on the web. I have installed Adobe several times. To open my files I need to drag them to my Adobe program. any ideas??

Pc is not recognize PDF file ( icon ) in emails and to open these it is loading a 3rd party program on the web. I have installed Adobe several times. To open my files I need to drag them to my Adobe program. any ideas??

Hi aadeshs
This problem is on my laptop running Vista ( Business) on Adobe 10.0 , for many years I did NOT have a problem with this . No forum Pages on this.
Also i would like to know how screen readers can better interact with PDF as my wife has difficultys on some email attachments on her laptop , again there seems no easy avenue for someone in her situation surfing websites and forums for Hours maybe ok ok for sighted people, but not if you are blind & use a screenreader. No Support Help from Adobe is available.
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Help! 3rd Party themes on N95 8gb!

Just got the N95 8gb and trying to install 3rd party themes. I can install it on the phone, but when I go to themes in setting the themes that were shipped with the phone are the only themes their.
Help. Am I doing anything wrong and are the themes still on the phone?
Any Help muchly appreciated.
Regards,
Sami

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3rd Party iMovie 6 Themes

I'm looking for iMovie Themes from 3rd party developers. But I can't find any. Does somebody know if there are any?
Peter

mwh71057 wrote:
… but HATE new iMovie....
me too, when iMovie-b appeared, 5y ago, as iM08.
(I posted here a 'first look' review .... ooohhh, I was grumpy!)
it was just a demo for a complete new approach to the theme 'how to edit?', misleading with the same name as iM-a, the dv-editor.-
vers09 brought back basics as slowmo ....
vers11 is a nice hobbyist tool.
vers13 will hopefully bring back support of plug-ins …-
and iMovie-b was an excellent preparation for switching to FinalCutProX, which was 2y ago 'iMovie on steroids'!
no wonder - same creator … all major video-editors (Premiere, FC/p, FC/e, iM-a, iM-b, FCPX) were designed by the same person!
.... it needs a while to get comfortable - but then you will never go back! What you need is a start from the ground, with an "I have no idea of editing!"-attitude, and stsart by 0.- ......
enjoy movie making!

Are there 3rd party effects plugins available as part of the cloud or do I have to buy them?

Are there 3rd party effect plugins available as part of the Creative Cloud membership or do I have to buy them directly from the provider? I like a lot of the stuff I see on Video Copilot. I'm new here and my guess is I have to buy them there, but want to make sure I'm not overlooking something here.

There are a lot of plug-ins available in AE and I would highly recommend learning the basics before you start buying 3rd party effects. Without a really good understanding of how AE works, what the UI is used for, and getting a bit of a handle on how to compose and edit animations you're going to be just parking your investment for a while until you learn how to use AE. I could easily fill up the two or three semesters in a Masters program at a university with nothing more than what comes with AE.
If you have a very specific need for a very specific effect and your are under a deadline then it's often advisable to purchase a effect, but if you are intent on learning how to animate, composite and create magic then just about anything you have seen can be created with the standard set of plug-ins.

IDVD 6 not burning to my 3rd Party DVD burner

help!
I have an external superdrive but iDVD is not recognizing it and not letting me burn a dvd.When I look at my system profiler it recognizes the lacie burner, but then says that it doesn't support dvd burning?? anybody know about this and how to get around it? thanks!
Russeau

This is an an external "Firewire" burner, is it not? Did you visit their website for the latest drivers? Did you run apple's software updater immediately after connecting or installing this device?
I like Lacie FW Burners. It's a high quality product. But frankly, I prefer building my own (at half the price) since doing so requires no additional 3rd party drivers.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5566582&#5566582
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5153595&#5153595
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Cineform and other 3rd party plugins for Creative Cloud, what happened to them?

Hi I don't want to panic but I just downloaded Adobe Premiere CC and it's telling me that I've rendered my previous project with a 3rd party plugin that isn't available. What is the process of installing my 3rd party plugins to premiere so I can edit with Blackmagic codecs, Cineform, and multiple others I have enjoyed using in CS6.

I followed the instructions from the Cineform site as given by scarolan_CS4 (thanks for that).
http://support.cineform.com/entries/24336007-A-Do-It-Yourself-Guide-to -adding-CineForm-support-in-Adobe-CC-Windows-
Works like a charm.
The only issues I have are:
Cineform plugs (except for levels) don't work. But they didn't work on CS5.5 and CS6 either - plus cá change.
I'm getting the 'saving metadata' when closing PP error back - I'd forgotten how I'd dealt with that, switched something off in prefs, if I remember (more internet searching!) This wasn't happening before I copied the Cineform directories to their CC locations, so I suspect it's related in some way.
The editing presets and the rendering presets all work fine.
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I've also had good luck with other 3rd party plugins. I created a junction type link from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS6\MediaCore to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore. The default mediacore directory is empty so this works, but I copied across 3rd party directories and files in the individual plugin folders for PP and AE as there are default Adobe files in there which may be different from CS6 to CC.
Note that I also created a junction from Photoshop 64 plugins for CS6 to CC and this also works a treat.
Just thought I'd mention it to show that it can work, I'm chuffed that it does as I was anticipating a system OS install to enable plugins to work and to keep 15-20% of my system SSD free.
If this junction stuff is too complicated (and you don't mind having two sets of the same files or deleting the older versions) just copy the plugin and relevant settings files instead. I assume this will work, although I haven't specifically tested it myself.
You can find free utilities to create junction links for Windows or this can be done via the command line. I forget the name of the utility I use, it works via the context menu. I have found that junction tends to work better than symbolic linking or other types of file 'aliasing' for most of my fumbling about with this solution.
This stuff sounds more complicated than it is, once someone has given the steps to take and you have installed the junction/symbolic linking utility it's just a matter of following the steps.
EDIT - I (re-)found the solution to the
Metadata. Metadata writing in progress (n files pending)
error -
Go to Edit>Preferences>Media and uncheck Write XMP ID to Files on Import (thanks to Jim Simon on this forum for this).

3rd party plugins not working after archive and install

hi,
i have a few 3rd party plugins in my logic pro, such as all the native instruments, waves diamond, ik multimedia plugins, atmosphere and a few more,
i was getting an error on my g5 when i tried to run diskwarrior from the disk. it was the kernal panic message, it said i had to restart my mac, therefore i couldnt run diskwarrior from disk.
i did a bit of research and a few people suggested doing a archive install, so i did.
well what do you know, i had to re-install logic 8 again. other programmes such as transcribe, itunes idvd imovie etc were ok.
but logic didnt load up, o i had to re-install logic again,
also before i did that i checked to see if my 3rd party plugin were working in standalone, so i check all the native instruments and they seemed to work ok, T-racks deluxe works fine, so i thought they should all load up in logic.
once logic was installed again and had to get all the updates all my 3rd party plugins did not show up on my AU validation.
is there a way to get logic to see my 3rd party plugins or do i have to re-install all of them again.
cheers for the help
lib

Then check if the NI AU components are actually where they should be:
HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
If not copy them over from your "previous systems" folder which was created on your HD during the archive and install process.

How do you burn an iMovie project to a DVD without using iDVD themes?

I created a presentation (slide show with music) in iMovie and need to burn it to a DVD. When I pull it into iDVD, it forces me to pick a theme which puts more music in. I just want it the way I have it in iMovie! How do I do that?

(From fellow poster Mishmumken: )
How to create a DVD in iDVD without menu (there are several options):
1. Easy: Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously. Disadvantage: The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy: If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well). Disadvantage: The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Roxio Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way": Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary: myDVDedit ( http://www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
Our resident expert, Old Toad, also recommends this: there is a 3rd export/share option that give better results. That's to use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option. Then in iDVD go to the Media Browser and drag the movie into iDVD where you want it.
Hope this helps!

Deleting 3rd Party Loops... where the freak are they stored???

Yes, I know that by default, loops are stored in Library/Application Support/Garageband/Apple Loops, or the similar address under my user library.
And, I know there is another folder close by, for Jam Packs.
However, I have been going INSANE, trying to find old, single-hit files and obsolete loops which i have downloaded from 3rd party sources. They are NOT in the regular places such as the Apple loops folder.
All of them were installed by drag and drop method into the Garageband loop browser, so one would assume they all went to the same place.
How in the world do i find these loops?
The Finder and Spotlight have turned up nothing.
I have about 5,000 i'd like to trash to make room for more important things.
Can Garageband be THIS cumbersome?

HangTime wrote:
yes, that was telling him to not delete it by hand because, as Christoph points out above, you then need to reindex, whereas deleting it through GB takes care of that.
with 5,000, it's probably worth the reindex, deleting one at a time through GB would be ... tiring.
Actually. i like your idea of deleting from the browser. They are scattered in different categories and different folders. I'd have to search and test them anyway... so I might as well just axe them when i come upon them in the browser.
I swear I've tried it that way before, to no avail..
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