Burned DVD slideshow transition
I made a slideshow project on iDVD, and burned it on a disc.
When I played it, I found one problem
During the transitions, where the pictures are sliding in and out...when the transition stops, the picture becomes slightly brighter, and when it moves again, the picture slightly dims and slides out...ie, its not a "smooth transition" or "smooth slideshow"
this "brightening" and "dimming" of the pictures during transitions doesnt happen when I directly play off of iDVD...only happened after I burned it on a DVD. I've tested this out on playing the DVD off a DVD player, and my Mac.
can anyone help me on this??
Thanks!
The transitions don't work well with menu DVD players; if you experiment you will find some are worse than others. The problem is, slides in an iDVD slideshow are considered to be chapters and many players pause on Chapter changes.
For best results, create your slideshows as movies in iPhoto or iMovie. I use Fotomagico and others like Photo to Movie; either of these commercial programs give you many great slideshow features.
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How to get good picture quality on a burned DVD slideshow using IDVD?
After producing a slideshow on IDVD from either jpg or psd photos, it looked great when I played the project. Picture quality was excellent. When I burned a DVD to share the slideshow with a friend and when I played this on the same computer, it had lost resolution and looks awful. I am using best quality but this made no difference. On a hdtv using a standard player, the quality is mediocre. Is there any way to get a decent picture quality. I have also burned a DVD and CD from the IPhoto album, and the quality is better. IPhoto will not burn a slideshow or at least I do not know how to. Can you produce decent quality DVD using IDVD or is there a better application to produce decent DVD of photo slideshows?
....or is there a better application to produce decent DVD of photo slideshows?
Yes. It's called DVDSP (apple's top of the line DVD Authoring application). It has a much longer learning curve than iDvd and is more $$$ but it does work well. The Help Menu alone is over 640 pages long. However, is this app significantly better than iDvd solely in terms of visual quality?.... No.
But it does offer many more tools to address visual artifacts on the finished DVD, more audio control, much better control of durations per slide, audio, buttons that work as expected, among other things. (for additional examples of this see chapter 12 of the DVDSP Help Menu / starting on p. 373).
Short of DVDSP, and much less money, you can also try these 2 third party apps which come highly recommended on this iDvd Forum:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
At the moment most macs do not yet support burning to Blueray (which does offer much better results). Once this technology is more commonplace, then I believe we will see a significant improvement in what you are trying to do above.
Hope this is helpful but if not just come on back.
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Can someone PLEASE help me. I made a slideshow in of soccer pictures in photoshop premier elements 9 and I can not burn it to a dvd. everytime I try Photoshop locks up and closes. Thank you in advance for your help.
carlaFrom Organizer, can you Send to Premiere Elements? Does that launch Premiere Elements, with your SlideShow in the Timeline?
Once you have your SlideShow into Premiere Elements, you can choose Break Apart, to do editing of the SlideShow in Premiere Elements. You can also add Audio, Titles, Videos, etc.
In Premiere Elements, you can add Chapter Markers to the Timeline (do not add a Stop Marker at the end of the Timeline), and then in the Create Menus Tab, choose the Menu Set to use, if you want Menus and navigation. When you are done, it is a good idea to Preview, to see that everything is working, as it should.
When satisfied, then insert a blank DVD into your multi-drive (I recommend Verbatim, Taiyo-Yuden or Falcon Pro, and NOT brands like Memorex, TDK, Ritek, or any "store brand"), and choose Burn to Disk. You can also Burn to Folder, for later burning to disc, by utility programs, such as ImgBurn (free and great), or test more with a DVD software program, playing the resulting VIDEO_TS folder (with the necessary files, IFO, BUP and VOB inside). For more detail, and also some great tips on Premiere Elements, I recommend Steve Grisetti's Basic Training Series from Muvipix: http://muvipix.com/products.php?searchphrase=basic+training&btn.x=16&btn.y=10
Have you done the above? At what point did the program crash, and did you get any error messages?
Good luck, and let us know where things are going wrong, please.
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DVD slideshow transitions off by one frame
iDVD 08. Multiple slideshows of about 20 pictures each. Variety of transitions. Sometimes use "fit to audio" and sometimes use a fixed slide duration. I don't know how many "frames" it takes to complete a transition, but let's say it's 10. For each of the slideshows, the dvd transitions to the proper image, but then goes 1 frame beyond the picture before displaying for the specified time. So what we end up seeing is not the best quality picture, but rather one frame into the following transition, which of course is not the best quality, and with transitions like cube, reveal, and mosaic looks particularly off.
Any ideas? Thanks.Hi, I just tested this and can't reproduce the problem. I tried selecting lip in/out in both premiere cc (2014, 8.0.0 169 build) and ame and both were frame accurate. Can you double check your frame rate settings please? Also what OS are you running and version of premiere?
Thanks
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Trying to burn a slideshow to dvd.I can get it just the way I want in Iphoto,but when I send it to Idvd,it changes akk the transition settings.Help?
Try exporting the slideshow as a QT movie file. It should keep all of your transitions, etc. and then you can drag the QT file into the iDVD menu being careful to avoid any drop zones.
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I keep getting "error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshows" message. I have been burning DVD's in exactly the same way for the past 12 months and mostly on my MacBook which is 3 years old. Obviously I'm using iDVD. I purchased an iMac about a year ago and moved to use this for dvd burning without problem. A few months ago (approximately) I started to experience problems with burning with the error message above. I tried everything including starting the whole process from scratch right down to capturing the movie clips from my video recorder into iMovie, then using them in iDVD. Still the same message came up. I lost count of how many times I repeated the process with different clips and variations and the same thing happened. This was also the case with my MacBook and my husband's iMac.
After taking both of mymac's tothe service centre, having new optical thingys put it and even a new hard drive on my iMac along with a new DVD burner the same thing happened. They told me it must be the process that I am using that is incorrect!
I took my 27" iMac to an apple shop and asked them to assist me while I use the same technique as I always had. The same message came up so they tried using my clips in one of their mac's. The same message. They tried it with different clips and the same message. The only way we could get theirs to work was with a magic DVD which did not produce what I needed and was limited with only one page.
I now cannot use any of my Mac's for the intended purpose that I bought them for - to produce good media for my work! It was suggested that I purchase some non Mac software to burn DVDs which defeats the object of having a mac with iDVD in my opinion. I have a book on iDVD which is very informative and have followed the process to the letter and checked all the trouble shooting and still no remedy. It was mentioned that an up-date may have caused the problem on all my macs.
I feel that this issue should be addressed by Apple as a matter of correctness.
I now find that on the net there are many posts in forums and such like with exactly the same (almost word for word) problems. Please Apple, keep/regain your good name and sort this out.
Jayne ConnellyThanks Bengt W for your attention to this matter. So much appreciated. And thanks for putting me right on the aim of forums (new to this). Although, you may regret asking for more information. I've added everything I can below.
The process I used is as follows:
Import recorded clips of between 5 and 15minutes each from my video recorder into i
Edit the clips (remove unwanted start and endng)
Add title to front of clips
‘Share’ them to ‘movie’ (export using QuickTime)folder in .mov format individually
Open iDVD and ‘create new project’
Select ‘favourite’ theme that I have set up forall my work dvd’s (this has been used successfully many times and I’ve triedwithout using the favourite them).
Add 2 submenus for each group of clips
Select submenu - drag and drop between 3 – 6 clips in each of the twosubmenus
Change title colours on clips
Dragand drop image into drop zones where required
In‘map’ view I check for any yellow warnings before burning to disc
In an attempt to remedy the problems I’ve tried the following:
Try new DVD discs
Try different themes (favourites and standardones)
Change images in drop zones
Start whole process again even from importingfrom camera again
Two other completely different computers (iMacand MacBook) with iDVD
Go to apple shop and use their computers to doin iDVD
Try with one clip and no menu pages added
Use a clip that I already have that did notoriginate from my camera
Turn computer off and restart
New hard drive
New optical lense (thing)
New DVD burner
Saving to disc image rather than dvd disc
Other points:
I also have a ‘flip’ and ‘iPhone’ whereI’ve imported footage camera which, although limited, records and makes videoclips and burns them to DVD through iDVD without problem.
For example, I have just gone through steps 5 - 11 using some clips that were already imported from my iphone to iPhoto and dragged across. I used a theme that I've used before which has failed and added one sub menu page where the clip went. It burned to disc image successfully.
The startup disc, I believe will have no space issues asit’s a new hard drive with no use apart from this. That could have been an issue before (I didn’t check it) butnot now.
Other technical stuff that I don't understand but you may:
I have…… Mac OS X Version 10.6.7 with all updates onit. Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Corei7. Memory 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
iDVD version 7.1.1
HardwareOverview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM111.0034.B02
SMC Version (system): 1.54f36
OPTIARCDVD RW AD-5680H:
Firmware Revision: 3AHB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (AppleShipping Drive)
Cache: 2048KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL,-RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO,CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: Toshow the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
If you can solve this you are better than the 'apple geeks' in the shop and the service technicians in the service centre (and of course me but that's no achievement).
Eagerly awaiting your reply.
Jayne -
Can someone please tell me a simple but effective method for burning a slideshow to DVD? Now that the connection between iPhoto and iDVD no longer exists, I can't figure out a way to get there with an acceptable quality result.
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailier like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
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I have spent a total of 4 hours over 2 days at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store and NO ONE can figure out my problem! Maybe someone out there is able to help me??
I have a slideshow I created in iPhoto that I need to put on a DVD. Everytime I finish the menu portion and go to burn, it quits after a few minutes and gives me the following error "Error during rendering/encoding: there was an error during rendering/encoding of the menus/slideshows. Burning process aborted."
I know that the burner works because my husband burned a DVD of my daughter's birthday using iMovie.
1) Does anyone know what could cause this? This iBook G4 is brand new so memory is no problem.
2) Does anyone know if you must have one of the menu choices or can you skip that part and just burn the slideshow with no menu beginning?
This is really stumping everyone I've talked to. I even went so far as to purge all the photos and rescan them thinking maybe something was corrupt in the photos. Of course, that solution did not work. We also made an archive of the slideshow on CD and took it to another Mac in the store and it also failed to burn on the other computer as well.
Any ideas out there? Whoever solves this one will become the "Ultimate Mac Genius" forever.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)I had that same problem awhile ago. When sending from IPhoto to Idvd, you can either send to Idvd, or export. I believe I just tried the other method, the export, then it worked and the funny thing is I was also able to go back to the old way after that one time and everything works fine again. A very vague answer I know, but it worked for me, hope it helps you.
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I am trying to burn DVDs from iPhoto slideshows. My pictures number in the hundreds and we know that iPhoto captures 99 and then "starts over". This plays fine from the Mac Book but glitches arise on the DVD when playing it on a DVD player. Any suggestions on how to overcome the 99 "Chapter limitation" that IPhoto has? Has anyone heard or tried an app called Vilisoft? I read good things but I am not sure if it will do what I want.
JimThen use multipel 99 picture slideshows.
You can have up to 8 or 9 slideshows per menu. If you add a sub menu reduce that by 1 and add 8 more to the sub menu. The top menu can have links to up to 8 or so submenus (depends on the theme) and each submenu can have up to 8 or so slideshows.
However, converting a very large slideshow to a QT movie as Terence suggested does not envoke the 99 slide limit in iDVD. It just becomes a single video/movie file. So you should not have a problem with exporting at the large size, 720 x 540,
and dragging the resulting file into the iDVD menu being sure to avoid any drop zones.
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My iMac "locks up" when I try to burn a slideshow made in iMovie to a DVD
When attempting to burn a slideshow I created in iMovie to a DVD (after exporting to iDVD), the video portion encodes without incident, but when the audio starts to encode, my computer "locks up." That is, the burn "wheel" stops turning, and I get a revolving color wheel at the pointer. I then can't exit iDVD, access any other application, or even shut down the computer. In fact, the only way I can shut the computer down is to turn off the power (i.e., disconnect the power cord). What makes this all the more frustrating is that I had no trouble of this kind the first time I tried burning a DVD from iMovie (a couple of months ago). It worked fine then.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)Thanx. I guess that's a possibility. I waited for about an hour, however. I'll give it another try and see what happens.
It's likely not stalled but rather still encoding.
Takes a while & requires patience.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/id2-4.html
Hope the above is Helpful.
It's likely not stalled but rather still encoding.
Takes a while & requires patience.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/id2-4.html
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when I try to burn my slideshow.mov to a dvd disc, it will burn but when i put it in the dvd player it says 'disc error'. I have burned it thru iDVD before but forgot how to do it and it won't do it now. The slide show is on my desktop
Rather than burn directly to disk follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums. -
Hi... I am looking for an inexpensive app for my macbook pro that I can put pictures and videos together into a slideshow with captions and music WITHOUT a watermark and that also will burn the slideshow to a DVD in its own app. Help?
The issue with the A1400 is that like most economy compact cameras, they will not have very fast focus times in indoor lighting situations. Many people have gone to entry level DSLR's (Canon T3i) or micro 4/3 cameras. They are fairly expensive, but a late model refurbished T3i can sometimes be found with a kit lens for about $300.00. With Auto and scene modes, as well as full manual modes, these are very versatile cameras that focus very quickly, even in lower lighting situations. Canon is not really into the micro 4/3 cameras, instead they are focusing on the new G7x and G1x cameras, which are way out of your price range. The A720 is still available used at some places such as KEH camera, but you'll need to check often as their stock changes constantly. Obviously the DSLR's don't use AA batteries, but the T3i is good for about 600 photos (or more) per charge.
My refurbished DSLR was practically brand new condition when I got it. I could not find any sign of wear at all, so I feel they are a real bargain. These are rugged cameras that are made to last. The A1400 is a $99.00 camera, so it's not intended for heavy usage, plus the image quality of a DSLR (even entry level) is far better than the A1400. That would be my recommendation.
Steve M. -
HT1103 How can I burn a slideshow (with sound) to a DVD. I have an imac desktop.
Does anyone know how to burn a slideshow to a dvd disc. It has pictures, video and music. LLaBant
To create a video DVD disk that can be played in set top DVD players and shown on a TV set you need a DVD video authoring application, like iDVD. If you do not have iDVD on your Mac you'll have to purchse it by bying a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com.
Why iLife 09 and not 11:
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
1 - once you have iDVD installed export the slideshow out of iPhoto at Size = Medium or Large:
2 - 0pen iDVD, select your theme and drag the exported movie file into the menu window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
3 - follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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how can i burn a slideshow to a dvd disc and keep the same full screen hi-def quality to it? I exported it to idvd but much of the quality was lost.
Ask in the iDVD forum on what's the best way out of iPhoto and into iDVD. The resident expert there, Bengt Wärleby, can give you the best option.
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How do you burn a slideshow to a DVD that will play on DVD players and PC computers?
I burned a slideshow in Aperture onto a DVD containing about 40 photos with a sound track from iTunes. The disk will play on my iMac but not on my wife's PC or on two of our DVD players (less than three years old.). What am I missing in the burning sequence that causes the problem?
What Shutttleworth says is the way to go however you might run into one gotcha, iDvd is no longer available if you bought your current machine with Lion on it.
iDvd use to be part of iLife but is no longer offered as either a seperate download from the App Store or as part of any App Store bundle. If you can still find an iLife boxed set iDvd will be on the DVD in the box. Other then that you'll need to look at thrid party solutions.
Of course if you upgraded to Lion and had iLife before the upgrade you should have a copy of iDvd.
good luck
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