Burned DVD Slow

I just made my first large DVD project. It contained several small iMovie's and an iPhoto slideshow. About six total. The project plays well on the computer however when it's burned and plays using a dvd several of them pause at the end and take forever to go back to the menu. There is only one that does this quickly on the actual dvd. Also the dvd icon to select the targeted iMovie on the dvd disappers. Has anyone seen this behavior? I've only done smaller projects and this one is about 2 gb total. Thanks for any help or suggestions you can provide.

Hi
But next time - You can also do - If You get a working DVD - first time.
Use Disk Util tool - to make a copy of it - Musch faster.
THEN - REMEMBER to not BURN more than three at a time and let the DVD-laser-burner cool down for 20-30 minutes till next batch. IT is very easy to over-heat the laser ====> Expencive Repair ! !
I do also
• use Verbatim DVDs (only as they work so much better for me)
• DVD-R - as they also play on older DVD-Players
• Set down burn speed to x2 =====> Less Burn Errors ==> Plays so much better
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk - to make iDVD and Mac OS to run OK (IMPORTANT)
Yours Bengt W

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After it's finished, you can save and quit, and the video will be encoded when you open iDVD to burn your project.
That is exactly what is done when the project is saved 'as disk image' so that the project is preserved, ready to be burned (using Disk Utility). Saves on disks, allows you to see if there are any problems before attempting the actual burn.
Also, it worked that way recently for me while making said disk image. The power failed for about a second...just enough to make the mac restart. I thought, oh, great, just as it was nearly finished with the creation of the disk image. It probably had about 3min to go. I figured I had just lost about 6 hours and would have to start the encoding all over again. So, I opted to 'save as disk image' again, and it started with the rendering of the menus and then suddenly 'encoding video' began at the very place it had left off. I was highly skeptical of the resultant disk image, but it took only about 5 min and I had the entire DVD project on the disk image! The burned DVDs were perfect! I had no idea that a power failure would do anything but cause all work to be deleted and necessitate redoing it. What a nice surprise!

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Press the option key (alt) key and launch iPhoto and create a new library and import a few photos into it - does that work
LN

How can I convert my imovie from ipad to burn dvd on PC

I have produced a 30 minute video for my son's football team using Imovie on my ipad. I do not have an apple computer and need to convert the imovie to my PC in order to burn DVD's. This process seems impossible. I have read many forums and am trying to export the project to my camera roll, however the process never completes itself. It will export for literally hours without completing the process. This project have taken me weeks to complete, mainly because the process is very slow with imovie and extremely frustating. Now, I'm ready to finish up and am so worried I will never get it off my ipad. What do I do??

NO files larger that 500mb (which is **** near any video) will not transfer!
At: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
It incorrectly state this:
"Windows XP cannot import video files larger than 500 MB using Camera and Scanner Wizard. You can transfer these files directly from your device by selecting them in My Computer and dragging or copying the movie files to your computer's hard drive."
Problem is that NO videos are shown as I open my ipad up in "My Computer", only photographs I have taken
THIS INSANE. You put Hign Def Video camera on the IPAD and NO simple way to get the you home made videos of it? Search this topic "transfer video from ipad to computer" you get NO help. the only responses are from people hocking there "computer programs that will do it" or "apps" that transfer files.
Apple here is the reality. At this point, regarding computers, PC is King...get it? We do not all have apple computers to go along with our ipads. ... So incase i need to break it down for you....YOU NEED TO HAVE A EASY WAY TO REMOVE VIDEOS FROM AN IPAD TO A FREAKIN PC...
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-ipad designers not seeing this as a problem
-the lies at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083 that discuss easy it is to simply open up "my computer" and drag an drop
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Error occur when burning DVD

My macbook pro can't burn DVD, both DVD-r and DVD+R DL.
I tried to use a better media (eg. verbatim) and slower speed (1X)
but the problem comes again and again.
I suspect the error may relate to the failure of "laser component" in the DVD drive
Because when I was using LiquidCD ,whcih is a DVD buring software, to burn DVDs,
the error message said that the software cannot control the strength of the laser.
Does it mean the problem relates to the failure of "laser component" in the DVD drive?
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Take it to an Apple Store or call Applecare assuming it is under warranty. Is this problem only with this software, which I have to admit I have never heard of.
Out of warranty I'd get an external burner vs. fix it since they perform better anyway.

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I have been trying to burn DVDs (using DVD-Rs, not DVD+Rs) on my eMac (OS 10.4) without success. The machine just acts as if nothing has been put in the drive; it whirrs and whirrs, no icon appears, no error message, nothing, until after half an hour or so I have to just eject it. On another forum, I was told that the problem was probably that my eMac can't recognize blank DVD-Rs, let alone burn them, without an external drive that has to be purchased separately. I want to be sure that's really true before buying anything, needless to say!
Another string on this forum suggested looking under "optical drive" under "About This Mac" to find out this kind of thing. I see nothing that specifically says "optical drive," but under Hardware and Disc Burning, it says:
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B:
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Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
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CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No
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(And, if so, what kind of drive is recommended?)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Chris Roth
[email protected]

While you can replace the intenal drive, opening up an eMac is not a trivial process and it's far easier to add an external drive. Go with Firewire rather than USB, even if your eMac is USB 2.0; support for Firewire under OS X is better and more stable.You can get a Firewire enclosure for around US$30 to $40 and a bare DVD-RW/CD-RW for about the same; or buy a complete system for around US$130 to $200 depending on features such as third-party burning software (Toast) or built-in label making with special DVD-R or CD-R blanks (LightScribe). OS X 10.3.3 and higher (which of course includes the 10.4 in your profile) includes native support for DVD-R burning, so you don't strictly need third-party software such as Toast, but Toast is more flexible than the built-in burner and allows for packing more data on a disc since Toast has better control over the disc's directory size. LightScribe is an appealing idea, but slow, and the blanks are expensive. When consideringf whether to roll your own, so to speak, with an enclosure and bare drive, don't overlook that you'll need a good-quality Firewire cable; cheap cables can cause a surprising amount of grief. Unless you have a bare DVD-RW drive handy, I persoanlly find the convenience of a commercial drive, with cable and power supply/cord already packaged together, outweighs the savings of assembling a drive yourself. I'm partial to LaCie D2 Firewire drives myself, but there are other models that work fine.

Burned DVD's have momentary pixelation

Hi
When I export my project from FCPX everything is perfect. When I use IDVD to add theme and chapters there is pixelation for 2 minutes on the burned DVD at the exact same spot of my project every time. Even though the source is 100% it keeps occurring and it's a critical part of the project(wedding). What is going on?

Hi
How did You do the Export from FCP ?
I do
As Quicktime - NO QT-Converstion
And I do as SD-Video Quality - Feeding iDVD HD usually give bad result due to bad down scaling function
Free Space on BOOT hard disk ? How much ?
Is there a special with the material where problems arises ?
- Photos in any other format than .jpg
- Video Sequence - Video-CODEC and frame-rate here ?
- Special funcyion here as "Slow Down, Anti Shake etc) ?
- AUDIO - I only use 16-bit 48 or 44.1kHz .aiff - NO .mp3, .vma etc -
Yours Bengt W

Quality Issues Burning DVD's

I am new to iDVD and iMovie.
I am hoping to be able to burn a DVD that will play on a
standard DVD player hooked up to a TV.
I made a 4 minute movie in iMovie,
then onto iDVD...
Saved movie to HDD
Burned DVDs via disk utility (one at all 3 speeds)
Used high quality DVDs.
The DVDs I created...
only the 4x would play on my standard DVD.
It plays in black and white, not color.
It stops and starts frequently.
Do I have any other options on my Mac?
Should I copy the movie to miniDV and take it to
a company that burns DVD's?
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
I posted this question in the iMovie forum as well...
Thanks in advance,
Kell

What kind of media are you using? Are you using Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R and burning from a disc image at 4x or slower?
Use Roxio Toast or apple's Disc Utilities to lower the burn speed. If your DVD or iMovie has B&W issues where it's not supposed to, then you have a shaky connection / loose cable somewhere. Check all connections (make sure all is snug).

PB won't burn DVD-RWs

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Ty

Let me see if I can help out.
Just because your drive says it is capable of 8X doesn't mean it will burn at 8X.
Depending on what you are using to try to burn with in the way of software, I suggest you burn at a slower Speed. like 2X. Apples Software is entry level and it works but many users find harder to use than the top of the line in burning software like Roxio's Toast 7.
Here is the explination on the different DVD's.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
Just bear one thing in mind.
When it comes to DVD Players, Formats, and Burners, of the hundreds of different manufactures, All are opting to be the Industry Standard, and it appears they insert there little chinks that almost force users to use there products exclusively.
There is always a backlash from these marketing ploys.
In a perfect world you would think any DVD would work in any DVD Player and Computer but sorry it is not so there are so many things that come into play. Format, Speed, Brand, Software used. Any one or combination can affect the process.
The problem is multi-dimensional.
First check in your particular profiler on EXACTLY what type(FORMAT) of DISK's your burner will burn.
Next please do not just randomly go out and buy a spool of 30 50 or 100 disc's because they are on sale.
There is a HUGE difference in the type format disc's you buy
There is also a HUGE difference in the BRAND you choose, some are junk.
There is also a HUGE Difference in the SPEED of the media you choose.
If any one or a combination of any of the 3 mentioned above can cause burn error's or no burn at all or spit the disk out.
So it is a good idea to do a little homework on your Optical Drive and see just exactly what it is capable of and what it will use for media.
(ONE LAST NOTE)
Many of the Media Manufactures are becomming aware that many of the Apple Burners are having trouble with there Media. Maxell has just come out with a brand new one that is. Maxell 16X DVD-R.
The key is read the packaging. this new media tells you that it will burn at any speed from 1X through 16X, and it works very well on the older Optical Drives. I also opt to use the individual that include the cases there seems to be much better quality, not like that of the spools.
Remember Apples Drives to date are much pickier than those used in the PC community.
Cheers Don

Burned dvd stops before last slide

I had about 125 photos in a slideshow I just burned on a DVD. It plays fine until photo 65 and then stops. My save show plays all the way through in IDVD but the burned dvd stops. Any ideas why or what I can do? It is not a rewritable DVD.

First:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302961
Second:
Create a disk image and see how that plays. Your burned DVD should function the same way. Might be media-related.
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
Quoting David: "Cheaper brands don't use the same amount of organic dyes and are more likely to suffer premature deaths."

IDVD 6, no audio on disk image or burned DVD

Seems I've just been plagued with this problem as well, and the first time I noticed it was after accepting an upgrade from iDVD 6.02 to iDVD 6.04 as well as a firmware update.
Audio from imported .avi files plays fine in the iDVD preview and even played perfectly on disk images and burned DVDs, but now there is only audio in the video I dropped into a background drop zone, and no audio in the two movies. During a second burn, still no audio in the movies but audio for the first 5 seconds of the loop of the background movie. I should mention, prior to updating, these .avi files were burned perfectly. So this is very erratic.
I used appzapper to remove iDVD 6.04 and reinstalled 6.02, but the problem persists. I'm wondering *if any others have experienced the same issue after some form of "upgrade"*. If there was only some way to revert back to the old firmware I would. A few other updates took place as well, but I can't remember exactly what was done.
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Have you updated to QuickTime 7.1.2?
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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I know this is a topic that has been thrown around for some time, but is there any new info out there that can help the playback on the DVD home players that skip when you play burned DVD's (DVD-R & DVD+R). A group of us are trying to fix this problem. We have used different brands of DVD's as well.
One person suggested changing the bit Rate???
What do you know???

supposedly the DVD standard says bitrates of up to 10 Mbps are allowed. in practice, standalone players don't handle this. particilarly older players have problems.
first, the bitrate is the total (video + audio + subtitles). i had a video (miniDV) which i imported into FCP4 did some minor editing and sent it off to Compressor 2.0.1. in the MPEG4 panel, if i used anything higher than 6.5 for the peak bitrate for video, the disk would not work on a playstation 2 (the audio part i used dolby and it was only stereo). same dvd worked fine on Macs, XP and an high end dvd player.
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After using iDVD, and not being able to create a finished dvd from an iMovie project with my 1000mz iMac, I had to use my daughter's 1.4 gz iBook, and successfully burned a disc image.
After I burned a DVD from the disc image, it played fine in my home DVD player, and the iBook from which it was created. However, when I put the disc in my iMac, the disc was not readable within DVD player. I kept getting the following message:
"supported disc not available".
Although the name of the DVD appeared on the desktop, DVD player could not play the contents of the DVD. After visiting the Apple store, the "genius" suggested the super drive in the iMac is very sensitive, and after age, may not read all discs.
Now my question:
If i need to upgrade to a MacBook (so I have a faster processor to finish DVD projects), and the finished discs are not readable in my iMac, does this all make any sense? Is there another explanation as to why the finished disc was not readable in my iMac, yet was readable in 6 other Macs at the Apple Store? Could it be the media (I doubt), the super drive in the iMac, or the way in which the disc was burned using the iBook? (I used "Toast" to burn the dvd, not apple's "disc utility" .Any advice is most appreciated.

Is there another explanation as to why the finished disc was not readable in my iMac, yet was readable in 6 other Macs at the Apple Store? Could it be the media (I doubt)
Yes it could be the media....some drives don't like some kinds of media. You might find if you switch, things get better. I like verbatim. Is it a DVD-R or DVD+R? How old is your iMac?
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia
the super drive in the iMac
Yes it could be that too. Could even be a dirty/dusty lens in the iMac. If it's not working now, I'd try a CD/DVD lens cleaning disk. Some users don't like these and think they can damage things, but not me. But use at your own risk.
or the way in which the disc was burned using the iBook?
Since it worked well in many other players, it sounds like you've got a pretty good burn. But I said pretty good. You can get better burns if you burn at slower speeds - I use Toast at 1X when I want the "best" burn. I doubt Toast is the problem though, just maybe the speed of the burn.
DVD compatibility is still not where it should be for home computers, Macs or PCs.
Download this:
http://dvd.kentidwell.com/iDVDUOFAQ2005.pdf
And read the section on errors, "why don't my DVDs play in any player"

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Hi matty,
welcome to this board
some dvd players don't "like" fast burned dvds and not every brand of dvd-r...
burn it again (if your Mac doesn't accept it, you have to anyhow), choose a different brand and don't use dvd-r marked "16x" or higher.....
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Will the drive read any discs?
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