Burning movies to DVD using imovie

I downloaded some movies I took from my Canon FS100 to iMovie. How do I burn them on a DVD?

First, make a project. Then share your project to the Media Browser.
If you prefer to make a DVD of your raw import, go to the iDVD Media Browser and navigate to the Event file.

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Good software to make and burn movies to dvd using 10.8.2

10.8.2 does not support I DVD I am looking for a good software to make my own movies yet be simple to use and burn to DVDs. I'm a beginner and need help thanks

You can use iDVD with 10.8.2 - I am; it still works (although it is no longer included as it used to be). So, if you have a retail iLife 09 or 11, install it. If you don't, it is absolutely worth going to Amazon or ebay or some other resellers and buying a copy of the retail iLife 11 disk.

How to burn movie to dvd from imovie?

How to I burn a home movie from imovie theater to dvd?

Steve Jobs "BluRay is a bag of hurt"
Not if you buy FCPX from them at $300.
Then they will provide you with the ability to burn both DVD and BluRay.
Not dead yet !
The "BluRay is a bag of hurt" is a bunch of hooey.
Apple's business model is for downloaded everything. They don't sell software/movies/music on physical media. It's as simple as that.
I have iTunes, Netflix and Flixster. But the movie watching experience is always vastly superior when I just pop in a Blu-ray and watch my movie in 1080P and 7.1 sound.

I'm not very techy, so be gentle! i am using midvd app to burn home movies to dvd from iMovie '11 version 9.0.9. It now burns the dvd but there is nothing on the disc. its not recognised by the iMac or any other dvd player.

I was using midvd app(i never had idvd) to make home movies on dvd from imovie '11 version 9.0.9 with no problems before xmas 2013. ive just tried to make a new one today and it wont work.
It seems to burn to the dvd (you can see a mark on the back of the dvd as if it has some info on it) but it wont play on imac (just says blank disc) or any other dvd player.
I have tried reinstalling midvd app and also tried 2 other dvd creator apps and the same thing happens the app says its burning and the external superdrive whirs like its doing something but it wont play.
The only thing i have done since xmas is all the updates to the operationg system and updated imovie (i didnt like the new version so went back to using the previous one)
Any ideas - i am new to all things mac!

When you export your movie from iMovie, are you choosing H.264? That is the only compression method supported by this miDVD. Youc an give this a try first:
Use Share > Export to Quicktime > Movie to Quicktime Movie > choose Options and then make your choices in Settings, etc (you can choose whatever size your video is - mine was 720 HD at that time):
If that does not work, I'd suggest going to their support site as they claim to be able to burn to DVD.... I just checked their site and here is their list of supported file types:
http://shedworx.com/midvd-supported-file-types

No sound when burn movie to dvd (premiere elements 3, sony vaio, vista)

Hi,
When I burn a movie to DVD using premiere elements I end up with no sound.
Analyzing the VOB with avicodec reports it has no audio track - and I get the same problem if burn to a folder or direct to a disc.
Exporting to mpeg or other formats works without problem.
Also - when I try the burn, I find a large .wav file in the temporary files folder, which seems to match the sound the DVD should have.
But for some reason PE isn't combining it into the VOB?
My current workaround is exporting as mpeg, and importing this to moviemaker and burning from there - but it's a pain to do this.
I saw some posts about this topic from last year - and mentioning VAIO as a common factor - but none of the sugggestions there have worked, and I can't find any solution/new info. Apologies if I've missed something in the forums.
Any info/suggestions would be much appreciated!
cheers,
Mark

Sadly, we see a number of problems that are unique to the VAIO.
Sony is notorious for rewriting the operating system to fit their needs. Still, you'd think, if Premiere Elements came bundled with it, it would at least work with the system.
I highly recommend manually updating the operating system and firmware (these things become outdated weekly, and outdated firmware can really wreak havoc on your machine), clearing off the junkware, optimizing Vista and making sure you have the latest version of Quicktime and, if you're using Premiere Elements 3, that you have installed the 3.02 patch. These links to the FAQ library at the top of this forum will show you how.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc43f9a
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc448a7
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c057647
And, if all that fails, it might well be worth a call to Sony, since they supposedly built and tested their machine and software before they sold it.

Burn avi to dvd using idvd

i dont have idvd, i dont even have a mac so this may be a really stupid question, but is it possible to convert an avi file and then burn it to dvd using idvd?
for example if a had a film in avi could i put it on a dvd to watch on a dvd player?

It is possible to put an .avi video on DVD, but it has to be converted into DVD format (which is mpeg-2). Another wrinkle is that .avi is a so-called "container" format and it is more or less difficult to convert .avi files depending on the format (codec) inside the container.
iDVD is fairly limited in the types of video formats it can convert (the latest version is the most flexible). If you have a very specific video you're wanting to convert, and thinking about buying a Mac, you could take it to an Apple store and see if iDVD recognizes the format. Alternatively, try visiting a Mac user group and see if they can be of assistance.
John

I burned an exercise DVD using disk utility and when I played it in my DVD player it was choppy and skipped. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I burned an exercise DVD using disk utility and when I played it in my DVD player it was choppy and skipped. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Commercial
Roxio Toast
<http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/>
NTI DragonBurn
<http://www.ntidragonburn.com/en/us/product/dragon_burn.asp?>
Shareware or freeware
DVD Image Utility
<http://geek.thinkunique.org/2007/07/17/dvd-image-utility/>
Disco
<http://discoapp.com/>
no longer supported, but free, simple, and runs well under SL.
LiquidCD
<http://www.maconnect.ch/>
free; iffy support, but, again, simple, and runs well under SL.
Burn
<http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html>
open source; not clear how active development and support are, but runs well under SL.
Terminal Whiz Kid
mkisofs
<http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html>
(part of the cdrtools kit)
Use mkisofs to create the disc image, and burn it with hdiutil or drutil. (Some of the free options mentioned above actually use mkisofs.)

I have produced DVD using iMovie, now want to download this back to iMovie, will not read DVD, have been told a piece of software available - any chance anybody knows what?

have produced DVD using iMovie, now want to download this back to iMovie, will not read DVD, have been told a piece of software available - any chance anybody knows what?

Handbrake is not ideal for this.
You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it.
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

Can you publish to a DVD using iMovie for Mac?

Can you publish to a DVD using iMovie for Mac? Or can you only share via Facebook etc...?

For creating standard-conform disks, you'd need a designated DVD-authoring app.
Options listed in this User Tipp:
How to create a video-DVD? (Macs without iDVD)

How do I put several DVDs into one DVD using iMovie?

I have made 5-6 small movies over the years using iMovie based on family skits. They average about 10 minutes each. I have them all burned to DVDs. I want to be able to put them all on one DVD instead of having 5-6 separate DVDs. I thought it would be a simple process to copy each DVD to my computer and then add them and burn to one DVD. When I duplicate the first DVD, it goes into a folder had has 2 files---neither of which I can open and play. Then I tried to open iMovie and import the DVD to iMovie. Can't get that to work. Then I went to the Disk Utility and was about to create an image of the DVD and did something I'm not sure of which magically at some point imported to the iMovie project I had created for this. I was able to get this process to work 3 times following the same steps (although I can't tell you why or what I was doing). But then it just stopped working for the last 3 DVDs even though I did the same thing. I don't have to use iMovie. I just want a simple way to combine DVDs into one DVD. Any help would be greatly appreciated as these are going to be Christmas gifts. Thanks.

If the iPhone is shown 'full-on' so the video doesn't have to be distorted then you could use 'Picture in Picture' in iMovie. See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mova1aaa682b
If, on the other hand you have an oblique view of the iPhone (as is the case in the video you reference) the movie will have to be distorted in order for it to fit the screen of the iPhone in the picture and show the correct perspective. iMovie doesn't offer this flexibility and you would need to use Final Cut Pro.
Geoff.

Burning movie to DVD after it was already done

Created a movie in iMove HD6, burned it to DVD. All is great!
Days later, I need a few more copies, and iMovie wants to do the long rendering process again.
Since it was done once, is there a way to expedite the process?

No, you will need to do the long rendering process again, because you burned directly from iDVD. But, as long as you have to re-encode again, instead save your iDVD project as a Disk Image (an option on the File menu) and burn your DVD from the Disk Image using the Disk Utility application on your Mac. The rendering process will be done only once, when you create the Disk Image. After that, you can burn as many DVDs as you want, in as many different sessions as you want, from the Disk Image with Disk Utility without any more endoding. Takes about 1/10th of the time.

Burning movies to DVD

I have just edited an hour and a half program that needs to burned to a DVD and copied to a VHS tape. I used iMovie. When I go to iDVD, it says I need a double layered DVD. What is that? I am doing this for a cable TV program and don't know if that would work. Also, they want a VHS tape copy. Can I do that, and if so, how? Can I export it to a VHS player and record it? Help!!

Go:
Preferences
General
Encoder Settings
Best Quality
And:
No, you can't not have a theme. Just pick one like 'Transparent Black' from the 4.0 themes. It has no music or motion. You can just drop in a still of your own from your movie.

Another "how to create HD DVDs using iMovie" question

I am able to download my AVCHD footage from my Sony videocam into imovie11 (on my mac mavericks platform)....and am happy enough with using imovie as an editing program for my project. And when I am done with my "project" imovie delivers to me a MPEG-4 file. It retains HD content (1920X1080p).
My Sony blu-ray player (BDPs350) will not play this file ...(strangely because it plays everything else)... so my question is what is the best (and lowest cost) way to create an avchd dvd of my project which will play in my Blu-ray player (and not suffer much degradation). My Sony PMB software did a great job in the past, but it is not available for Mac. I am on the verge of buying Toast and "hoping" it will work but their customer service was not reassurring when I talked to them recently. Will Toast 11 do the job?

Yes and I said that
Roxio Toast - INCLUDING BD-Component can burn to both DVD and if You got a BD-Burner to Blu-Ray disks.
BUT
DVDs are 4.2-4.7Gb and BD-disks 24Gb (If I remember rigth) - Meaning that You only can put about 20 minutes movie on a SL-DVD.
This BD-DVD - can only be played on Blu-Ray players (no standard DVD-player playback these. Not even Your Mac unless it got a special program that can do this (but to playback true BD-disks a dedicated BD-player is a must)
AND - My BD-DVDs play back greatly on my PlayStation3 - BUT NOT ON some Cheap Samsung BD-players !
Do not know why.
I use:
- Verbatim
- DVD-R
- SLOW BURN speed !
And to me Roxio Toast Bundle was great value - especially Spin-doctor - as I have old vinyls and sounding bad - some sounded as brand new after processing in this. (and lot's more - back-conversion of DVDs, file conversion etc)
Yours Bengt W

Old Home Movies on DVD to iMovie

I recently had old super 8 and 8mm family home movies (My parents wedding movie and family trips from the sixties) converted to a DVD by a local photo store. Unfortunately the scenes are not in the chronological order that I asked for plus there are some that I would like to delete altogether and burn a copy for my sister. I have tried to load this file into iMovie with no success. The file is called DVD.xml and there is also a VIDEO_TS folder and an AUDIO_TS folder. When I attempt to drag and drop the DVD file it gives me an error code that says:
The file could not be imported: The file “Macintosh HD/Users/designer/Desktop/YesVideo/DVD.XML” can’t be imported; QuickTime couldn’t parse it: -2048.
HELP. I really wanted to get these scenes in order on a new DVD and give copies to my sister and my aunts and uncles. Can it be done?
Any and all help is appreciated.
Bob
G5 Mac OS X (10.4)

Hi Bob,
sorry for being late.. who invented timezones anyhow?!
very little to add to Sue's and Roy's advice...:
step 1)
convert the DVD into editable data... my website (see Sue's post) explains one method ... for sure, there are many other tools, claiming to help you:
in recommended order ... :
* DVDxDV (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple mpeg2 plugin (29$) + Streamclip (free)
* Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works >25$ + Apple plug-in
* Toast 6/7 allows converting to dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
* connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a DVD-player and transfer disk to tape/use as converter
none of these apps override copyprotection mechanisms as on commercial dvds...
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
ANY of these tools or methods convert the content of a DVD into another file format, called 'dv'.. which is iMovies native format....
step 2)
NOW you are allowed to import these converted fils into iM.. handle them as normal clips: edit them, arrange'em.. whatever...
step 3)
when you created the new project, you hopefully choosed 'Movies' as the folder... quit iM, launch iDVD, choose your project, create dvd...
summary:
dvd >> 'dv' >> iMovie >> iDVD ...
ok?
technical, there's a 'better' way by avoiding all these conversions, but this is no beginner's task (... hey, good idea for a new workshop on my site....) and some 'rare' tools are need ...
if any questions - post here.. we can go down into detail... ;))

Can't burn movies on DVD anymore with '08

I'm unhappy with not being able to burn a DVD after preparing an iMovie of vacation, family etc. There seems to be some inbetween stages that I have to go through which I don't understand. The focus appears to be on just making movies for the web with the new '08. Anybody have a better understanding of how to simply create movies for home use to play on TV?

The focus appears to be on just making movies for the web with the new '08. Anybody have a better understanding of how to simply create movies for home use to play on TV?
iMovie 08 is a wonderful program assuming that you're using it for what it was designed to do, assemble simple videos to share on the Internet.
I use iMovie 06 (with iDVD 08) if I think I will ever put a movie on a DVD. When you're ready to make a DVD just share to iDVD 08, unlike iMovie 08, iMovie 06 has "Share to iDVD" built in! iMovie 06 has Chapter marking built-in also, a few clicks and you have Chapters and sharing with iDVD.

Burning movies to DVD using imovie

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