Burning Disc in idvd help!!

I am unable to burn my iDVD project onto my Memorex Lightscribe CD-R discs! I was able to burn onto my Memorex Lightscribe R discs, but then they won't play on my dvd players. I was told -R would play on my dvd players, but now I can't get it to burn. When I insert my -R discs, it tries to read it in iDVD but then ejects it immediately. PLEASE HELP!!!

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.
The following will let you make sure the encoding is good before you commit to burning and help avoid making "coasters":
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.
OT

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Skipped audio files when burning disc in iDVD.

I burned a DVD using iDVD version 7.0. The audio files sound perfect on the computer but on the disc there are skipped areas noted in three different audio files. I did try different discs and burned discs on both my laptop and my desktop. I have used this program before but never encountered this problem. Any tips? Thanks

Hi
My notes on this.
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• 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
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

Burning disc using iDVD

Having just made my first iDVD, I am trying to burn it onto a TDK DVD+R 4.7gb single side disk. Won't burn and is stating "insert recordable disc" even though disc is brand new. Probably obvious to everyone else, but no doubt there is catch ?

Uhh, that's complicated. It's just different standards, backed by different organisations. Few years ago, when it started, it looked like a stupid formats war, with customers confused, low sales, etc. One could imagine that the industry learnt the lesson, but never underestimate stupidity: now the same kind of war is about to start regarding the next generation DVDs, the BlueRay or the HD...
Anyway, recent burners can deal with almost all curent formats (-R, -RW, -R DL, +R, +RW). Some of them are compatible also with +R DL (that's Dual Layer), and with -RAM. If you need that compatibility, you can buy an external burner (look for one with FireWire connection, is better even than USB 2).

Will quicktime X burn disc in iDVD?

I do a slideshow using Photo to Movie and make a Quicktime X movie, and save in Movie folder. I then open iDVD and place my movie on the desktop. I then drop my movie into iDVD using one of the themes. Then I try to burn to DVD but this is aborted soon after initial reading. The discs I use are fine as I have tried several makes of well-known brands. I never had this problem with Quicktime 7 on Leopard. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and Quicktime X was part of the package and QT 7 is no longer in my utilities folder, so I cannot revert to it to complete my DVD. Is there a solution?

Thanks for the response to my iDVD problem.
I did as you suggested and created a disk image of the project - tried to open it with DVD player but it couldn't see it. I quickly made disk images of DVD projects that had been successful but they weren't seen by the player either - perhaps I misunderstood that particular part of the scenario.
Anyway, I re-created the project with a newly-made file and it worked fine - but as I said - its all fairly random and success rates are low.
My projects are always created in FCP5. I use DVD-R's - the last batch being 16x.
I don't use MP3's because they still don't work properly in FCP so I don't think the problem lies there.
Any other suggestions gratefully received.

Burning discs on new iMac

I'm having problems burning discs on my new iMac Intel G5. When I try burning discs from iDVD, the disc ejects and I get a message telling me to put in a recordable DVD. I've tried resetting the NVRAM and SMU. I've tried Sony and Memorex discs. Once I got it to work but it took 1 hour to burn an iMovie that had about 5 slides in it.
However, it does burn to disc when dragging photos or documents to the DVD and then burning the Disc. It also burnt a disc straight from iMovie but for the 5 slides it took about 30 minutes.
I'm using the same discs I used on my old G5 Power PC machine. I took it to an authorized Apple dealer and they said nothing was wrong with it.
Any ideas?

I got the DVD burning to work. I tried some different discs and found that the +R seems to work better. I purchased some new Maxwell +Rs and some new Memorex -Rs. I got both to work however the -Rs seemed to have taken longer to burn. I tried some Panasonic -Rs and they worked. I tried a Maxwell RW and it worked.
I also had tried Sony -Rs and some other Memorex -Rs and they didn't work. The computer kept telling me to put in recordable DVDs. These were new DVDs and I couldn't get them to work. They worked in my older iMac G5 non intel machine.
My conclusion is that the DVD player in the new iMac isn't as forgivable as the DVD player in the older G5. I never had trouble with that DVD player rejecting anything.
Thanks Don for your input on buring software. I'm going to look into getting either Toast or Popcorn. Any opinions on which is the best? Do these software packages create an initial screen like iDVD does along with chapters and themes?

I loose both sound tracks of the last chapter when burning a movie to a disc in iDVD

I loose both sound tracks in the last chapter when I burn a project to a disc in iDVD. The sound tracks are there if I play the movie in iDVD before burning to disc, but as soon as I try turn burn to disc the original sound track & the sound track imported from iTunes disappears in the majority of the last chapter.
I'am using the latest version of iMovie & IDVD. The project in iDVD is listed as 96 minutes & 3.9GB & I'am using an LG single sided DVD 120 Min 4.7GB
Any help will be appreciated.
Mike (Australia)

Hi
May be something here.
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• 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
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

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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.

Content appears in iDVD preview but not on burned disc

Hi there,
I am using a MacBook running Leopard.
I have burned 2 other DVDs using iDVD and havent had this particular issue. I put 5 videos on a DVD. I preview the videos before burning the disc to be sure they appear and are linked to the right button, etc etc. All looks fine. When I select that video to play on my DVD player after I have burned the DVD, I get nothing. Just the Sony DVD brand screen. I have cleaned the disc but it still isnt playing at all. It is almost as if there is nothing there. But it shows up just fine in preview before I burn the disc.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Does the finished iDVD play on your mac but not on your home DVD player?
If this is the case, please try a variety of DVD Players at a store that sells these set tops to find out if this happens on most units or not.
Also you say,
I get nothing. Just the Sony DVD brand screen.
Are you referring to the media / DVD Brand or the default screen on a sony set top player?
if it's the latter, try adjusting the inputs and outputs on the set top dvd player thru your remote control.
Lastly, are you using Verbatim / Maxell DVD-R media or some other media?

Burning discs, help! ?????

the only way i know how to burn discs is by creating a playlist in itunes and then selecting that playlist to burn and even then the disc is a music cd
im used to using nero burning rom on the pc, is there something similar to this already on macosx
basically im asking because its not always that iw ant to burn an audio cd on itunes; if i wanted to burn a data/mp3/vcd/dvd disc, how would i go about it?
thanks in advanced

http://www.roxio.com/enu/mac.html
Roxio Toast is a Mac versatile software package that let's you do disc burning of many different varieties, kind of like Nero on the PC.
One advantage of Toast is that this software supports many different types of optical drives that you may have added to or upgraded in your Mac, where as the Mac built-in software typically only supports selected drives that shipped in a Mac (only an issue for an older computer that might have shipped with a CD-ROM and a RW drive was added by the user) PatchBurn is a utility that can help add the native support to some drives, in the case of an upgrade drive that didn't originally ship in the Mac.
http://www.patchburn.de/
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Check out one of the "Missing Manual" books from your local library, that might help learn some of the Mac language and where to find things since you are new to Macs.
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IDVD doesn't burn discs properly!

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First time posting, so please excuse any naivete
Hi there, I'm having the opposite problem of many of the questions I've read on here- the audio on my burned disc won't play on my computer but is fine on my TV. I am running the latest version of idvd on a 2008 macbook. The music for the menu is a .m4a file (?) imported from itunes and the movie is an imported project from imovie. Both play fine in idvd preview and I have burned discs of this project before with no problems. This time I burned one disc through idvd, discovered the missing audio, deleted the encoded assets and re- encoded before saving the disk image and burning another dvd through disk utility. Both dvds are having this problem . I checked sound on my system preferences, it's on- though I can't find the "main audio" that was mentioned in another thread. Maybe I don't have enough space on my startup disk? I've been trashing some things to free up space, but I'm not sure where to check to see how much space I have.
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 6001)
Acer Aspire 5520
iTunes 8.0.1.11
QuickTime 7.5.5
FairPlay 1.0.15
CD Driver 2.0.7.5
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 2.1.1.13
Bonjour 1.0.5.11 (118.5)
iTunes Serial Number 25042FB61CBEED6A
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iTunes is not running in safe mode.
Video Display Information
NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M
** External Plug-ins Information **
No external plug-ins installed.
** Network Connectivity Tests **
Network Adapter Information
Adapter Name: {FB97CCED-8C3D-4788-9FD1-7EDF228EAD8D}
Description: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter
IP Address: 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained: Sat Oct 04 17:05:55 2008
Lease Expires: Sun Oct 05 17:05:55 2008
DNS Servers: 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1
Adapter Name: {4A66390C-37F1-4179-AF6D-56BE200D52CB}
Description: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
IP Address: 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask: 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server:
Lease Obtained: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970
Lease Expires: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970
DNS Servers:
Active Connection: LAN Connection
Connected: Yes
Online: Yes
Using Modem: No
Using LAN: Yes
Using Proxy: No
SSL 3.0 Support: Enabled
TLS 1.0 Support: Enabled
Firewall Information
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Connection attempt to Apple web site was successful.
Connection attempt to iTunes Store was successful.
Secure connection attempt to iTunes Store was successful.
Secure connection attempt to iPhone activation server was successful.
Last successful store access was 2008-09-26 09:39:17.
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LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0),
UpperFilters: NTIDrvr (1.0.0.6), GEARAspiWDM (2.0.7.5),
E: MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ870QJ, Rev 1.00
Audio CD in drive.
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4 8 12 16 24.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 4.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 4.
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iPodService 8.0.1.11 is currently running.
iTunesHelper 8.0.1.11 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 2.11.32.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
FireWire (IEEE 1394) Host Controllers:
RICOH OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller. Device is working properly.
Most Recent Device Not Currently Connected:
iPod nano (3rd Generation) running firmware version 1.1.3
Serial Number: 6U747640YXR

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I have the same problem. iDVD disks that I burn on my G5 will play on G4's, my PC, and all consumer DVD players that I have tried them in. But they will not play on my G5 that created them, and they never have. The disk just spins for a few seconds and then ejects. It never gets recognized and never mounts. There is no error message. I regularly distribute my DVD's to 20+ people, and the disks play on all of their players, though I don't know if anyone tried to play one of my DVD's in a G5.
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