Audio in preview but nowhere else

When I create an iDVD project, scenes have audio in preview mode but no audio in neither a disc image nor a burned DVD. Up until recently, this problem did not exist.
I see numerous posts on audio probs but none that address this specific issue.

I downloaded a trial version of DVDxDV and gave it a test drive. I must say I was less than impressed - the user has to skate through the movie, using a very coarse-control arrow, looking for the wanted clips. The documentation doesn't give a clue as to how to select a clip - I used Clear, In and Out buttons and the graphic looked as if I had selected the required section of movie but I was never able to do better than produce a 3 or 4 second clip of white space (I'm trying to extract a clip from a commercial DVD).
I can load Cinematize-created clips and I can put them into iMovie so that may be the way to go. But first, I have a couple of nights' work learning how to use iMovie.
BTW, my iDVD audio problem has fixed itself but the video quality is poor (like looking thru slightly distorted glass). I have one or two other minor problems too but there may be solutions so I'll probably leave this thread for the time being. Many thanks for your kind assistance - it really is great having forums like this to go to.
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OSX rejects correct password on boot (but nowhere else)

Hello all,
We've recently updated several Early2008 MBPs (Snow Leopard) to Late2013 MBPs (Mavericks). With these new machines, OSX intermittently (more than 90% of the time) rejects correct login passwords from cold boot (when unlocking FileVault2 images), but nowhere else.
OSX never rejects passwords when:
-waking from sleep.
-authenticating in OSX environment
-unlocking FileVault2 images from warm boot (restart, from either Windows or MacOS)
-administrator password is shorter than 17 characters (machines only exhibit this issue if passwords are 17 characters or longer; we can shorten our passwords and then the issue goes away, but comes right back if we make the passwords longer.
-Password length does not matter when cold boot logging in as a standard user account (not an administrator).
Typical machine details:
-Updated from 10.6.8 to 10.9.x, then to 10.9.4. Note: we cannot upgrade to 10.9.5 until it is verified by our certification lab.
-Using FileVault 2.
-Migration Assistant was NOT used. Relevant files were copied over. Fresh install from Apple.
-Passwords are alphanumeric only, with numbers, capital and lowercase letters.
-OSX Server is not used in our environment. Run of the mill Mavericks.
-Key repeat rate set to 'fast' (only set when in userland). Delay until repeat is 'short'
-firmware lock enabled (note: issue still persists when disabled)
Example:
0. Machine is off.
1. On first boot, admin attempts to log in and 24 digit password is repeatedly rejected. It does not matter how slowly password is entered.
Note: It is difficult to verify password length after the first 16-20 digits, as the GUI is only wide enough to display that many (?) characters. Arrow keys are used to verify password length.
2. After successfully logging in, admin successfully enters password on first try numerous times throughout workflow.
3. Admin restarts (warm boot) and successfully enters password on first try (every time).
4. Repeat
Workaround:
A. Create a dummy standard user account with 20 character password.
B. on cold boot, login as standard user.
C. log out and then log back in as admin user.
Unacceptable workarounds:
-Use admin password less than 16 characters (company policy requires 20 characters or more for admin accounts).
Questions:
-Does the computer time need to be correct to successfully unlock a FileVault2 image?
-Do these new MBPs not have a persistent time tracking device (like the old ones)? Our machines often have the incorrect time until they can sync with time.apple.com
-What is different about warm versus cold FileVault2 booting?
-Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks for your comments. I imagine this issue hasn't been reported because:
-most people don't use FileVault
-most people don't use passwords longer than 16 characters
-most people assume they're just not entering their password correctly*
I, too, haven't seen any other reports of this behavior. We've disabled and reenabled FileVault2 on multiple machines without resolving the issue.
*This is going to date me a bit, but as a troubleshooting step, we typed the password '37fhGBdh6UniqueGalaxy7' onto a USB-connected AlphaSmart 2000 (with key type speed set to 'Very Slow'). We then created a new admin user account on a sterile machine and used the AlphaSmart to enter the password. We then performed several tasks that require admin password and verified that the AlphaSmart reliably enters the password once logged in. However, we still see the same behavior only during cold boot... the password is 'incorrect' a majority of the time.
I'll keep trying to isolate this issue, but I imagine it's similar to the bug in earlier OS versions where only the first 8 (and later, 16) digits are handled properly.

Audio on preview but no audio on menu's on DVD all other audio fine

Help,
I have made a DVD with menus with audio. All of the MP-2 video files have sound but there is no sound on the Main Menu and SubMenu. I had audio as PCM file and mp-2 audio file. I have made menus like this previously and have had sound on the menus. Any ideas on what I need to do to get the sound on the Menus
Thanks

Jennifer - that is great news.
With DVD, it is always safer to keep all menu audio in the same format.
Main thing is that it all now works!

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I'm relatively new to Dreamweaver.
I have a page with some rotating images, created following a Communitymx recommendation (http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=651FF).
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I have PR cs6 and my mac has recently upgraded itself from iPhoto where i imported all my photos and film from to "photos" now all of my current project is showing 'media offline' AAAAARGGGH!! now i can't see anything. the audio is fine but everything els

can anyone help me get all of my edited holiday video visible again? my mac upgraded itself from iPhoto where i keep my imported video and photos, to "photo" now all of my current project (and probably old ones as well! ) are showing media offline. how can i get this back seeing the clips on 'photo'?

When you open a project you need to point PPro to the new media location and relink
>mac upgraded itself from iPhoto
THAT is not good... I am Windows, but at least a Windows update gives ME the option of unchecking an update

Error shows up in default trace, but nowhere else; how to get more info ?

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simple SOAP-to-IDOC scenario.
these messages never show up in RWB, so they must fail before RWB even is involved.
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I hope to avoid to need to trace the actual network for the messages...
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Edited by: Ronald on Jun 29, 2010 11:24 AM Added RWB info

Thanks for your reply.
I am glad you support my diagnosis.
however, since it is an unknown party calling the web service,
my main question is how I can get more information on that source message.
is there any trace which dumps that message content before it is being passed to and parsed by the soap adapter ??
I have no clue who is sending this request, so I cannot ask them to investigate.
Edited by: BW teamlid on Jun 29, 2010 4:00 PM rephrase

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I have a 10g database & a separate 11g database installed in separate Oracle Homes on a single machine. I've made the necessary entries to the tnsnames and listener.ora files to successfully connect to both of these 2 databases from SqlPlus, Toad and SQL Developer. However, when I'm in OBIEE 10.1.3.4 and attempt to import a table from either the 10g database or the 11g database using the OCI 10g/11g connection type, I get the error:
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Calendar events show in iPhone but nowhere else

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Not an Apple problem but nowhere else to turn

Hello,
Never had to use to use this site before and the issue isn't actually a Mac one as as far as I can tell but I'm hoping someone can help.
I should be contacting the BBC directly but the posting function has vanished from the mressage boards when I log in.
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rt2 wrote:
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My printer prints from word but nowhere else. not even directly from printer glass.

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I can watch my custom DVD in iDVD 7 preview but burnt dvd plays back black with only the audio

I can watch my custom created DVD in iDVD 7 preview but once the disc is burnt and I play it back in DVD Player, the screen is black with only the audio playing back. I have tried using three different blank DVD manufactures.

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8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
Yours Bengt W

When i open a picture it opens at preview but "all my files" opens everything else with it , same happens with MS word when i open document every word document opens with it

When i open a picture it opens at preview but "all my files" opens everything else with it , same happens with MS word when i open document every word document opens with it

Hi MIXAYA,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. In OS X, by default apps will open with any previously opened documents opening as well. To disable this feature, select "Close windows when quitting an application" from System Preferences > General. To learn more, see this article:
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Two issues getting a headless error form windows & my clips audio plays in the preview but not once placed in th timeline. I taped with a panasonic HC 750 V. i believe it is with clips filmed using directed not surround audio.

The title more or less says it all. I have Elements 13 & am Using the Panasonic HC 750V. I shot in AVCHD 1080/60p & instead of surround sound choose the directed feature to focus on the voices in front of me. The audio works in preview but not on the timeline. I am also getting Headless errors when working with premiere that pop up in windows but it does not shut down the system.
Any help apprecaited.

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Have you updated your Premiere Elements 13 to 13.1 using an opened project's Help Menu/Update. If not, please do so.
Just some points of clarification on the AVCHD 1080/60p with which you are having audio problem in Premiere Elements 13.
a. I see no option to record to tape with your Panasonic model. Is there one? if not, what was recorded to, a memory card?
b. When you talk about directed not surround audio, are you saying that your video uses Dolby Digital 2 channel stereo instead of 5.1 channel?
c. Is your AVCHD footage presented to you as AVCHD.mts rather than AVCHD.mp4. I think that is the case if you are referring to Dolby Digital
rather than AAC audio.
Are you saying that you get play back video and audio if you double click the video's thumbnail in Project Assets, but you get video but no audio after you drag the file to the Timeline and play back its contents in the Edit area monitor?
a. Have you checked the Volume control under the Adjust Tab/Adjustments Palette/Volume Panel expanded to make sure the Volume has been taken all the way down? Under that condition, you will get play back in the Preview Window, but no audio from the Timeline level play back in the Edit area monitor.
b. In that same regard, if you look at the Timeline audio clip, note a yellow orange line that runs horizontally across the duration of the audio clip. Is that at the bottom of the frame or is it in the middle or at the top?
Do you work with the Elements Organizer at all? That Headess issue sounds like an Elements Organizer issue. More on that later. That issue should not prevent you from continuing your work. But we will explore that next.
Thanks.
ATR

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