Burning CD Text

Does iTunes 7 for Windows support burning audio CDs with CD text included? I know that iTunes 7 for Mac does.
If not, then is there any way at all to burn my protected iTunes files to audio CD including the CD text?

Sure. Load iTunes, go to the Edit menu, choose Preferences. At dialogue, click Advanced and then click the Burning tab. Put a tick in the Include CD Text checkbox. I believe there are still some issues with this and that the text isn't always displayed, even the player is compatible. This is because there are two ways of implementing CD Text and Apple has only chosen to include one of them. I think.

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Can Apple comment on their lack of support for burning CD-TEXT?

Can Apple comment on their lack of support for burning CD-TEXT?
I've been getting the runaround from the support people. They said to resolve my issue check out the following kb articles. The articles were aimed at giving me more information about ID3 tags and formats that I care about. I just want my burnt cd's to work in my CD-TEXT capable cd player.
I've done this using alternate software packages so I know my hardware supports it. I'm really looking for a complete solution for myself (techie) and my wife (non-Techie) to use and make us both happy. I have to admit, this really bothers me.
I know I'm not the only person asking about this. Please add the support for CD-TEXT to I-Tunes.
Thanks
Windows XP
Windows XP

Apple people don't comment here, it's a user to user forum.
But you've got me interested. CD-TEXT, what is it? Should I just look it up in wikipedia or do you have a better explanation of what it is you're after?

Audio book cd's burn with text

Even with the "include cd text" box unchecked my audio book cd's burn with text and when I try to put them on my laptop to listen to them I can't import them into media player because the text is on the first cd.
How can I get it to stop putting the text on the audio books when I burn them?

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this just using iTunes. However, I'm aware of 2 approaches to overcome this limitation either by using a 3rd party app on the Mac or the iPod:
a)Use a utility program on your Mac to join all the track files into a single file and transfer the generated merged file to your iPod. One such utility is called AudioBookBuilder and it's available in the Mac App Store.
b)If by iPod you actually mean an iPod touch, you can transfer all the individual tracks to your iPod and then use a player app to listen to the audio book, ideally an app that is capable of keeping track of where you stopped listening so that you can resume listening later. One such app is called AudioBookCD and it's available in the iPhone App Store. Disclaimer: I developed the AudioBookCD app to address this need.

Compressing Video for DVD Burn Makes Text Look jagged

Hello,
I'm currently at the final steps of a lengthy video production project and am struggling to make the text elements of my finished video display correctly after compression prior to burning it to DVD.
I create and produce music for a living and don't have nearly as much experience with video editing. I'm a bit new to all of this and am using FCE 4.0.1 to create my video & Compressor and DVD Studio Pro 2 to compress and author video for DVD.
*My main issue is this:*
I'm using an imported still image as the title card for my film. It's a mixture of large plain Helvetica Neu font text with some additional stylized lettering created in Photoshop (which is why I'm not using FCE's built-in text generators for the title card). The typography isn't very wild and crazy, it's basically big bold letters and a few gentle curves. I exported the image (1200x600) from Photoshop as a .png and imported it into FCE.
When I export my finished video file (.png title card and all) out of FCE, I export it as a raw uncompressed Quicktime file:
Apple Intermediate Codec 1440x1080i
29.97 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1440x1080) (Anamorphic not checked).
Field Dominance: Upper (Odd).
(It displays in quicktime at 1920x1080 though.)
After initially exporting from FCE, the title card image and all the other text in my movie created from FCE's built-in text generators look fine. It's only after I compress the finished movie in DVD Studio Pro or Compressor that I get jagged looking edges on the curves of my letters, primarily the title card image (the text generated by FCE's generators holds up okay).
In compressor I'm using the "MPEG-2 6.2 Mbps 2-pass settings for DVD" preset and in DVD Studio Pro. Using '2 pass VBR', 'Best' motion tracking, 'best' and 'highest quality' on all the compression settings I can find. I'm encoding at a total rate of 6.5Mb/sec max and 6Mb/sec average. These are standards for compressing to DVD and since I'm preparing a master for reproduction, I've been told I shouldn't increase the data rate over this or I'll run into player compatibility issues down the line.
Any ideas on how I can make this text image last through the compression process and still look clean and crisp without having to increase the data rate of compression? I'm going to play with different file formats for now, but it that doesn't work I don't know where to go from there.
Thank you for any help insights you can provide.

I started with a variety of HD raw footage (most of it gathered on Canon 5D Mkii SLR Digital camera in the form of: H.624 1920x1080) but converted all my raw footage prior to editing into:
Apple Intermediate Codec 1440x1080i
29.97 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1440x1080) (Anamorphic not checked).
Field Dominance: Upper (Odd).
I edited everything in Final Cut Express 4.0.1 using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1440x1080i60 at 29.97 fps sequence preset.
When I finished editing all my video I exported it as a raw uncompressed quicktime file which is also:
Apple Intermediate Codec 1440x1080i
29.97 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1440x1080) (Anamorphic not checked).
Field Dominance: Upper (Odd).
But when played in quicktime this finished video displays at 1920x1080, which I'm happy with. (I'm assuming this is the proper behavior of Apple Intermediate Codec? It seemed to take 1920x1080 footage, converted it to 1440x1080, and then spit it back out as 1920x1080 after the whole editing process.)
But seeing as how my issue is with an image file I'm creating in Photoshop and importing into my video sequence, I don't quite understand how the rest of my footage would really effect it. I've made sure to create the image using the same dimensions and pixel aspect ratio as my sequence frames by using one of the standard Photoshop screen templates (HD widescreen 1440x1080). I save my title card image as a non-interlaced .png file and import it into FCE.
When I place the imported image on the timeline, FCE doesn't resize it because it matches the frame dimensions of the sequence. When I view the image at 100% in FCE's viewer all of the image's lines, curves, and shapes display properly as they appear in my original photoshop file.
But for some reason FCE treats this imported .png image file as a 'rendered proxy.' So while it looks fine in FCE prior to rendering and exporting, when I export the video sequence containing this newly imported title card image, the resulting uncompressed quicktime file contains jagged horizontal lines across some of the characters in the title card image. It almost looks as if there's some interlacing issue going on.
However after much experimentation and trial and error I landed on a custom compression setting in Compressor that seemed to take care of this issue. I did as you recommended and selected a high quality 7.5 Mbps encoding preset (7.5 Mbps max/6.4 Mbps average), but noticed a 2 pass VBR rendered better results. What really seemed to do the trick was adding a deinterlace filter to the compression preset, and that miraculously seemed to eliminate the jagged lines in my title card image, restoring it to its original appearance (at least during my initial inspection in Compressor's preview mode).
After letting Compressor crank away, I looked at the finished compressed video in quicktime and the jagged interlaced-looking lines in my title card image have returned. Compressor's preview was somehow misguided.
Now my plan is to burn this compressed video to a DVD and view it on a TV to see if maybe these jagged lines in the final compressed version are only being caused by viewing on my computer's monitor. I'm hoping this is the case, otherwise I'm at a loss of what to do next.
If you need any more details please let me know. Otherwise I hope this is enough to give you a better idea of what issues I'm dealing with.
Thanks again for your insights.

I created a powerpoint presentation and used idvd to burn, the text is blurry? how do i fix this

I created a powerpoint presentation, used idvd to burn disk. the text is a bit blurry. how can i correct?

but the presentation can not have any movement, transistions or music
It's possible to create an iDVD slideshow from a PP presentation with still slides of each PP page.
Here's how to get any file into iPhoto as a jpeg file:
1 - open the presentation in Powerpoint and select all of the pages in the "page" mode (don't remember what that mode is called)..
2 - type Command+P to start the print process.
3 - click on the PDF button and select "Save PDF to iPhoto".
Note: If you don't have any of those options go to Toad's Cellar and download these two files:
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Unzip the files and place in the HD/Library/PDF Services folder and reboot.
4 - select either of the files above (the 300 dpi setting is primarily for images bound for iPhoto.books).
5 - in the window that comes up enter an album name or select an existing album and hit the Continue button.
That will create a 200 or 300 dpi jpeg file of the item being printed and import it into iPhoto.
Open iDVD and create a slideshow with the "+" button. Go to the Media/Photos browser at the right and drag the album with the PP pages into the slideshow window.
NOTE: if there are more than 99 slides in the presentation this method will result in a pause at slide 100 due to the fact that DVD standards only allow 99 chapters in any slideshow and each slide is considered a chapter. iDVD gets around this limitation by renumbering slide 100 back to 1 and so forth. The pause can be minimized, but not eliminated, by following the workflow below:
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.
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CD Text not showing up on burned cd's.

When I burn a cd, the cd text is not showing up even though I have the include dc text option checked. Any suggestions?

iTunes has an option to burn CD Text, but it does not have the ability to read CD Text. If the CD Text is burned on the CD, then any of the ripping tools listed in this article will be able to read the CD Text.
If you don't have the time to look at that link here is a summary: almost all ripping tools except iTunes can read CD Text.

Burning text in iTunes

I'd like to use iTunes to burn a data disc of mp3s. Is it possible to also burn a text file on the disc that contains information on the tunes? Thanks.

No, I have the burner that came with my iMac.
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K05:
Firmware Revision: Q523
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

Does iTunes 7 "Include CD Text" Burn Feature Work?

The CD player in my car will display the disc title and song name if it is encoded with CD Text information. It works well with Toast. I noticed that iTunes 7 has a Burn preference "Include CD Text" checkbox, but when I select it and burn a CD the info does not appear in the car.
Does anyone know what's up with this?

I burnt a CD yesterday with iTunes 7 and the CD Text feature turned on. I tried the CD in my car, a 2005 Nissan Aramda, but nothing displayed. I know the CD player supports CD text so I wondered if iTunes didn't burn the CD correctly. I started trying the CD in all my CD and DVD players. On my Sony DVD player, the disc did display the disc title but not the track titles. However, I'm not sure that it would since it's a DVD player. That at least told me that iTunes wrote something on the disc. Then I read that if you insert the CD you burned back into your Mac and launch Toast, select Disc Information under the Recorder menu, you can see a listing of all the burned tracks and the CD text that was written on the disc. Sure enough, iTunes 7 had burned the disc title, track name and artist for each of the tracks.
Given that iTunes appears to burn CD Text correctly, the mystery is why my car doesn't recognise it. I'm also wondering about the two standards for CD text and if maybe the one iTunes supports isn't the same as the one my car supports. I'm hoping that maybe someone else can shed some light on that.
Thanks,
Eric

How to include non-photo text files when burning a DVD-RW

I'm using Photoshop Elements 3.0.1 on Windows XP Service Pack 2.
I want to include a couple of text (TXT) files on a DVD-RW disc that I'm going to burn my photos to. The text files will contain a chronicle of the trip on which I took the photos.
I can't figure out how to get Photoshop Elements (PSE) to let me include these text files. Is there a way to do that in PSE? It seems to only allow you to work with photo files.
As a work-around, I tried first burning the text files to the disc using Nero and not finalizing the disc. I then tried to use PSE's burn command to add the photos, but PSE objected that the disc was not empty and asked me if I wanted to erase its contents. When I said "No", it asked me to insert a different disc. So apparently PSE will only work with an empty disc or a partially-full disc that you are willing to erase first.
Help!
Thanks.
Steve Westfall

Ward,
I didn't try burning the photos first and then burning the text files with Nero, because I read elsewhere in the forum that PSE has the nasty habit of always finalizing the disc when it finishes its burning session, which means you couldn't add anything to it in a subsequent burning session. However, I haven't verified that. I'll have to try it.
The work-around that I finally came up with and successfully used was basically your second option. I used the export command to export the pictures that I want to a directory, and then used Nero to burn those pictures and anything else I want to the disc.
Still, it seems like there ought to be a way to get PSE to include files other than photos.
Thanks for your input.
Steve

Naming Burned CD'S

How do you set a name to a CD that you've burned? For example, when I put the CD into someone elses's computer, will the playlist name come up as the CD title?
-Also, how can I ensure that the song titles and artists will show up?
THANK YOU!
-O.

Normal audio CDs do not support this. However an extension to the spec for audio CDs called CD Text does let the CD store artist, track, album name information.
iTunes 7 added the ability to burn audio CDs with the CD Text included, Roxio Toast has had this capability for some time.
Not all CD players can read the CD Text, iTunes and Windows Media Player cannot (WMP also cannot burn CD Text), a lot of in car CD players can.
If you are burning an MP3 CD then the situation is totally different. In this case, any information displayed is read from the MP3 tags contained in the MP3 tracks.

Include CD Text turned grey-out

Oddity, I burn one cd, it includes CD Text, I'm able to select include cd text, fun stuff. I burn a lightscribe label for the disc [through SureThing, subsequently installed Nero]. Plopped the CD into my PS3, cd text recogonized, much fun.
Burn a second cd. Plopped into PS3, no cd text detected, swapped back to iTunes, and it seems the Include CD Text option on that device is now grayed out. The other burner in the system can still select it.
Have yet to attempt another burn until I dig up a cd-rw to test with. That, and they're burns for protected content, so I hopefully reasonably don't want to be burning through my 7 burn attempts debugging .
HP DVD Writer 740b [drive that's now greyed out, the primary burning drive]
LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S [drive that lets me select CD Text, however, it doesn't appear to persist between itunes sessions]

Okie, consider me confused now. Tested the 'good' cd with another computer, no cd-text. So I'm guessing, the PS3 picked up the data off CDDB. How that really managed, I'm not too sure though, but hmm.
Dug up a cd-rw, burned on the burner that supposedly can burn cd-text. Itunes doesn't pull auto-info on it, but a cddb/gracenote query in media player pulls up the appropiate album information. PS3 play test, mimics original 'good burn', it appears to pull cd info off cddb.
So I'm left pondering, instead, why one of the albums I bought off iTunes has no album information then I remember, mcchris and suspect that it may not even have a cddb entry now .

"include cd text" is still greyed out:-(

deleted old itunes (because s/w update wouldn't update it) d/l'd & installed 10.6.3 on my minimac(dcore duo, 10.6.8, uj-85js) but i stiil can't burn audio cds w/text
i can burn w/text on my macbook with a uj-8a8...is there some majick incantation that will fix this? or is this feature only available in osx 10.7 (even tho itunes is v10.6.3 on both)-:

i should also mention that i share my itunes library via nfs on both machines...where is the itunes prefs.plist stored? it's not in ~/Library/Application\ Support
if this is a lion yes/tiger no issue i'm jumping to linux...

Burn Folder locked and need to Burn CD with yext Docs

WEll my G4 Power Mac Digital Audio (2001)not let me burn a CD with a text Doc that went into the burn folder which I can not get rid of and I am the administrator because it is locked. How can I get rid of the Burn Folder, empty its contents, and just trash it?

well it did just jump into the trash, but still I would like to burn a text doc to disc

In attempting to burn a playlist onto a new CD, iTunes seems to burn about half the tracks then shuts down and issues an error msg. (4900) - although that msg. has rec'd a lot of attn., there does not appear to be an adequate or workable fix or suggestion

In attempting to burn playlists onto new CD's, iTunes regularly completes half the burn, stops, ejects the CD and issues error msg. #4900. Although there appears to have been similar problems for some time, I cannot locate any suggestions for fixing the problem. I have installed the newest version of iTunes but that does not appear to have any effect on the problem. Thoughts?

I had the same problem after updating my DVD-Drive Firmware.
Disabling the Option to burn "CD TEXT" solved my problem. Hope that helps !!

Branding iron burnt text effect?

Hi Guys'
I need to create a logo that looks like a branding iron just burned the text onto something...any ideas or tutorials available for this?
Thanks
Samuel

Use the title of this thread as part of the keyword string for a Google search, like so:
photoshop tip|tutorial|technique Branding iron burnt text effect
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