Burned DVD stops or music skips at 100th chapter
I am creating a slideshow with music in iDVD. When playing the burned dvd the music skips or the dvd stops at the 100th picture. Any fix for the problem? I noticed that iDVD automatically assigns each picture its own chapter so it could be the 100th chapter that causes the problem. If so, is there any way to have more than 1 picture per chapter?
Thanks for your help!
The 99 photos was because, as the original poster indicates, each photo is a chapter and the Video DVD standard (nothing to do with Apple, but the industry standard) is 99 chapters max. These days many players will play past 99 chapters, but many others, especially older ones, the strictly conform to the DVD standard balk when there are more than 99 chapters.
So while iDVD will now allow slide shows past 99 photos, if you want your DVD to be compatible with the most set top players, you are better off limiting your slideshow to no more than 99 photos. If you want more, then you want to create your slideshow manually in iPhoto or iMovie and place your own chapter markers keeping the number of chapters under 100.
Patrick
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When I burn a DVD it burns visuals up to a certain point and then stops. So when I play the DVD I get so far and then picture freezes. The soundtrack seems to be ok though so not sure why this is happening. Anyone any ideas ?Hi spaceface:
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When I burn my iDVD there are several times it skips (hesitates) during the show. I have 431 shows in the show.
Any suggestions on burning a clean copy?Thats the problem with creating slideshows in iDVD. Slides in such a slideshow are considered to be Chapters and a Track can contain a maximum of 99 Chapters. Early versions of iDVD only let you use 99 images in slideshows. Newer versions let you use more images by linking Tracks together. The problem is, many/most set top DVD players will pause/freeze on Track changes - thus the hesitation you see after every 99 images.
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hi there - am waiting on final cut universal to arrive and am at the moment just needing to put a 5 min music video that a friend did from imovie onto DVD
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anyone out there have any suggestions - i downloaded deinterlacer 2.7 but have no real scooby as to using it - have to say imovie is a real pain in the backside!!!!
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welcome to this board
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well, I tried
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No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
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(iM’08 & 09)
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480x360
640x480
720x540 960x540
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• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
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thanks muchFirst if you slideshow requires more than one audio track go to iTunes and create a new playlist with the music you want. You can take the total time of the playlist and divide by the number of slides to get the approximate playing time for each slide.
In iDVD go into the slideshow window and then click on the Audio button at the right. Locate the playlist and drag it into the music bin at the bottom of the window.
Click to view full size
Be sure that non of the audio tracks are DRM protected tracks from the iTunes store. You won't be able to use them if they are. And remember this is only for slideshows created by iDVD from still photos imported from iPhoto.
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I hope someone can help. I tried just about everything that everyone has suggested so my DVD will burn properly, but my music keep dropping at the same point in every DVD that I've burned.
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Thanks!!!Can you confirm you are using iDVD 7 from iLife 8?
This will not run on Tiger, it requires Leopard.
If you are running iDVD 6 you are in the wrong forum, but we will carry on here!
Previewing in iDVD is not the same as previewing the final version prior to burning.
To preview the final version, without wasting another DVD blank, go to File menu and click on Save as Disk Image.
This creates the final version and does all the rendering etc short of the actual burn.
If you open DVD Player you can play that Disk Image as though it was a DVD.
If everything works, only then burn to a DVD. In this case use Disk Utility to burn the DVD - or better still, invest in Toast.
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I am reading this post in the iphoto for iOS forum. The iPad does not burn photos to a DVD. Perhaps you'll get some assistance if you posted in th general iPhoto forum.
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http://www.mcetech.com/dvdr16xdt-d.html
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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.
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Play the disk image with DVD Player and see if you get the same start over half way thru.
Did you create the slideshow in iPhoto in the slideshow mode?
or were you in an album and then used the Share ➙ iDVD menu option? What I'm trying to find out is if the slideshow in iDVD is a movie file or an iDVD slideshow with the photos from iPhoto? If it's the latter how many photos in the slideshow?
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