Burn MP4 to DVD with iDVD

I'm trying to burn an mp4 to dvd using idvd. When I click on "OneStep DVD From Movie" and select my mp4, iDVD hangs with most menu items grayed out. Any attempt to interact with the interface just causes a beep. Any suggestions?

Ok, I answered my own question. I had a project open at the time. Once I closed the window, selecting "OneStep DVD from Movie" worked just fine.

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6.5 GB long iDVD project, intended to be burned on a DL-DVD (Memorex Double Layer DVD+R, 8.5 GB, 2.4X) with my iMac G5 20", 2GB RAM, more than 160 GB remaining on hard disk; this computer normally burns DL-DVDs on DVD+R, as written in the user manual.
Okay, I let the software encode the project, meanwhile have a walk and when I'm back, the disk is ejected, and iDVD hung with a window telling the "recording is finished", still "thermometer", and a useless "Cancel" button; the rolling color wheel is also here. Force quit shows that iDVD doesn't respond.
And the ejected disk remains blank! So I guess iDVD hung after encoding, and didn't burn.
The project doesn't need any resources located on another CD or DVD.
I disabled all other apps to gain resource space, but no way.
I read it was a bad idea to burn from a disk image, because Disk Utility doesn't manage DL-DVDs...
Did I miss something?
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Memorex Double Layer DVD+R, 8.5 GB, 2.4X
I would suggest Verbatim DVD+R DL. Memorex single-layer has a bad track record here...
I read it was a bad idea to burn from a disk image, because Disk Utility doesn't manage DL-DVDs...
I don't think that's true. Try it. I've used Toast 6 with a disk image from DVD Studio Pro. That worked fine.

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Hello,
I bought myself an HD-camera with a Hard Disk (Sony HDR-XR500E). The native format is AVCHD.
When I transfer the video to my iMac (Intel Core Duo 2,16GHz) I can see the video in my Final Cut Express where the video is transcoded in Apple Intermediate Codec AIC format.
The editing works fine. The pictures are sharp and there are no visible artefacts.
I can export the timeline to Quicktime Movie, and the result is a rather big .mov file.
When I playback this file it appears automatically in a FCExpress window, and I have no problem playing the file.
When I use that .mov file to create a DVD with iDVD the there is a problem. When there is amore than a little bit of movement in the picture, the vertical transitions become distorted (jagged). It looks like I see an interlaced picture where both frames are displaced a little bit. This effect is very good visible when I stop the movie playing.
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Hello Tom,
Sorry for the late reply but the last few days I had other things to my mind.
In the meantime I realise why I was confused, … and you gave me the understanding or the missing link to understand what was happening.
My original problem was burning a HD project I made in FCE on a DVD in SD.
I thought that:
1. FCE made an export in a HD format, … and this is right.
2. iDVD could only accept a movie file in SD, … and this was wrong.
That’s why I was looking for a method to convert my HD-movie in an SD-movie to feed iDVD.
So my problem is solved.
Bringing a HD movie from FCE to iDVD is very simple: It’s the same as bringing a SD movie to iDVD. iDVD recognizes an HD movie, and does the conversion to SD automatically. So my problem is solved. I produced a DVD starting from my HD movie and it looks as good as the movies I made in the past with my old DV-camera.
It’s a pity I couldn’t find the workflow, to turn a HD movie made by FCE into a SD movie on a DVD using iDVD, in the documentation of FCE or iDVD.
Why was I confused?
When I was looking at the playback in the canvas window I saw rather good pictures (no artefacts).
When I was looking at the exported movie with my QT player I saw a lot of interlacing artefacts. That’s why I thought there was something wrong with the coding of the exported video, … but it wasn’t.
Your explanation about looking at the canvas window in 100%, and the fact that viewing at any other than 100% was showing a reduced resolution (with interpolation, using only one field) made me understanding the problem.
I did a few tests to verify my thinking. In FCE I used de-interlacing on the video. In the canvas I saw a rather good picture nearly the same as the original (without de-interlacing). When I exported that de-interlaced video and viewed this file in QuickTime, the artefacts were gone.
So, my conclusion is: Don’t use QuickTime to control an exported movie from FCE, because QT is using an interpolating scheme with both fields. The result is absolutely bad especially when there are fast moving objects in the movie.
Tom, thanks again for your help.
I was just wondering what kind of education you have in video, because you seems to know what you are talking about.
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Hi Bengt,
Thanks for replying ! I spoke with tech support and we tried everything including saving it as a disk image but after the burn it still was out of sync.
Then we tried creating a project in i Movie and then imported (shared) the project into i DVD and it worked !
This was a frustrating issue to tackle but I'm ready for it if it happens again.
Thank you very much for your help. Have a great day.
Best regards,
Joe F

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