Burn DVD without a Theme

I have some digital video in iMovie that I would like to burn to a DVD but do not want a Theme or Menu. I know I can put video in the box above the theme which will autostart when I put the DVD in a player but I suspect the theme would come up after it. Is there any way to delete the theme/menu so I just have the movie on the DVD?
Thanks,
David

If you create a OneStep DVD your content will loop and you will never see a menu.
If you don't loop the content, a menu must and will be displayed after the content has been played.
This: http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/AutostartDVD/autostart.htm is an approach I use.
F Shippey

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i would like to burn a .mov-movie directly on DVD without a theme lead. I would like to perform the film endless on a exibition.
Thanks rudolf

Hi Rudolf
If I guess right You want
• a Self Starting DVD
• Auto looping DVD
Self Starting:
Open a new iDVD project
Change the view to out-line (small round button down under main window with three small boxes)
Drop movie into the now visibly top left most box.
This will now be an Auto-Starting DVD
Looping:
Top menu Row (Apple/iDVD/File/Edit etc ----> Advance
Down to Loop
Done
That it still get to Menu when Halted !
Hard to do anything about
You can select a very simple theme and change background picture to a Black Photo
Then it looks like nothing. But that's about the best one can do.
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iDVD 6 Getting Started
Apple's iMovie Learning Site
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Burning a DVD without a Theme

"I recommend an autostart dvd where you drag and drop your QT movie to the top box while in map view and then set the movie to loop. That way it will play in kiosk mode w/o much user interaction other than inserting the Dvd."
Hi all, I am fairly new to IDVD, however this is exactly how I have used it twice in the past to burn a DVD from a presentation created in iMovie. Both times it worked without any problems. However, I just followed this same procedure for a new presentation. And the DVD ran just fine on my computer, on my TV, and on the receiving persons computer and TV also. It even ran just fine on the audio/visual equipment at the rehearsal for the presentation. But what a shocker when the disk was played for the actual event and the Travel Theme with the blaring clarinet started up. Luckily I was seated close to the media room and I asked the tech person to stop it. I also had the insight to bring a back copy that I had in my jacket pocket that worked just fine.
Anyway, to make long story short, can anyone give me a little insight as to what happen here. I have the DVD now, it works just fine. I also noticed a Theme is copied and burned at the beginning of each DVD, but there does seem to be any directory to it. Is this correct or am doing something wrong here
And just to be on the safe I did drop in some relate image and music into the Theme boxes for future presentations.
JG

Apparently the autostart feature doesn't annihilate the underlying theme, but just overlays it. I can't explain why it sometimes pops up but other times doesn't. It seems like sometimes the DVD player doesn't read the auto start cue and goes right to the menu theme.
There are ways other than auto start to make an iDVD project without a theme. I usually just select a theme like Green Linen and drag a black clip into the main menu window, then delete any remaining buttons. You can add a title using a text box. Or you can create a "play movie" button if you want.
Take a look at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1758774&tstart=15

Burning DVD Without Themes and Chapters

I have an iMovie from my own video that I have edited just the way I want it. It has a title and will be about an hour long when burned. I just want to burn it to a DVD for TV viewing WITHOUT any theme or chapter stuff. iDVD won't seem to let me do that and has already screwed me up twice in the process. How can I bypass that theme and chapter stuff and just burn my DVD? I would like the instant play feature on the disc when it is done.
I have iMovie 6 and a MacBook.
Thanks for any help,
videolou

Hello videolou,
here's how to create a DVD 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.
3. Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just un-check the appropriate check box. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software
4. 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
hope this helps
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(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.
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Burn DVD without breaks/chapters

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I think this is a missunderstanding.
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• DO not set any Chapter Marks in or Within 2 sec of any transition in Your movie
(Yes there are ways around this - First Export Your Movie as full Quality QuickTime.
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what Brie meant:
to burn a DVD, you need a DVDburner, a combo drive can NOT burn DVDs, just CDs... that is a hardware issue...
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Burn DVD without Themes, Menus, etc.

I was able to import an old VHS tape into iMovie very smoothly. Now I want to burn a DVD of that tape that could be played in any DVD player. Just a one-to-one copy--no frills.
When I start a project in iDVD5, it demands that I select Themes, Menus, Buttons, etc. That's not what I want at this time. I just want a clean DVD copy of my original VHS tape. Nothing else.
I can't seem to find a way to do this in iDVD, yet I feel that such a simple action is so basic that it must be an iDVD option.
Can someone please tell me exactly how to do this?

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Hi
well - Your frustration is 100% understood - and what's up is that
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But still burn
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• Data-DVDs
and if there is no iDVD on Your Mac (and it's not on newer Macs as Apple discarded it), You need a program that can do this.
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Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html
only You can buy from Apple is
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AppleMan1958
You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.¨
Some people succeded in getting a iLife (boxed version incl DVD) by tretting to return the Mac ( within the 15 days ? ) and by telling a senior sales man this. Not relevan in Sweden I think - but one idea.
This is a Major flaw and a great bit of BAD WILL - BAD PR.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2333
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I would like to burn movie without a theme...can't figure out how. I tried exporting to the desktop and then dragging onto Magic movie, but that still seens to require a theme.

Thanks for replying Showman. I have seen reports on the forum as to a variation to the solution described here, but haven't tried it personally. It doesn't require looping of the movie, but is slightly more involved.
The idea is to use a fairly basic theme, with no animation or music (one of the earlier themes if you have them). Replace the background with a black image and change all text to black. So effectively the theme is completely black. Now use the procedure previously described (which you are familiar with) to automatically play the DVD without seeing a theme (using the first drop box in Map view).
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