Burnning iMovie with iDVD on 4 gig CD

I have been creating an iMovie and I burned it by using iMovie buttons. The iDVD opened and processed (burned) the iMovie but at the very end it stopped and reported an “erro” another time it just crashed, ejecting the CD. I noticed that the size of the iMovie file was 7 gigs. I have allot of clips (most unused) associated with this movie.
I am quessing the size of file ( 7 gig) and CD 4 gig capacity is the problem. But I don’t have that much in use in the actual file. Any help appreciated.

OK - I assume you mean you have DVD media (about 4GB) and NOT CD media (about 700 MB)
iDVD compresses your source material with mpg-2 compression so the size of your raw source material in GB isn't important. What IS important is the running time of your iMovie project in minutes. A single layer DVD can hold abou 60 minutes in Best Performance mode and 120 minutes in Best Quality mode.
By way of reference, if you raw source mateial was in DV fomat, 60 minutes of DV format content is about 13GB.
I doesn't sound like the length of your source material is your problem.

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Can't burn imovie with idvd & can't keep the audio and video clips to ancho

Two questions:
I've been working on a series of short digital stories in iMovie and have been trying to put them on a dvd. Using iDVD wasn't successful. Couldn't get them loaded into the map on the DVD theme page. So I dragged finally gave up and dragged the iMovie filesinto the DVD icon on my desktop and burned them. But now I have to drag the iMovie file from the DVD onto the harddrive before I play them.
I would like to have all of the short movies in one DVD.
I would also like to have one longer iMovie file but I'm having a devil of a time making all of the files, audio, video, photo, etc. stay in place while I'm working on each section. Perhaps this isn't feasible?
With thanks for any help you can give me. I'm a novice at this program but enjoying the challenge.
I'm using a borrowed machine...2 GHz G5 with 2 GB DDR SDDRAM
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

I've been working on a series of short digital stories in iMovie and have been trying to put them on a dvd. Using iDVD wasn't successful. Couldn't get them loaded into the map on the DVD theme page. So I dragged finally gave up and dragged the iMovie filesinto the DVD icon on my desktop and burned them. But now I have to drag the iMovie file from the DVD onto the harddrive before I play them.
Were you dragging the project file into the right place? Try a simple theme like the Portfolio Colour theme under the iDVD3 collection. By the way, the simple thing first, I hope you were using iDVD5 not iDVD4.
There can also be problems if the iMovie projects were created in iMovie4 and converted to iMovieHD. If this is the case load each one again. Make some simple change, undo if you wish, then save again.
In any case try using file > Import and note what happens. I think this (old fashioned) way is easier than gragging in the projects. You can tidy them up later.

Sharing iMovies with iDVD

On the older versions I was able to easily and quickly share my iMovie with iDVD - this version takes hours! Is there an easier way to send to iDVD?
Why is the rendering process so slow?
- James Canty: [email protected]

the newer version is therefore less user-friendly and more time consuming than the older version... who planned that?
Apple had found that many iLife users were not using iMovie, some would argue that iMovie 06 became "too good". Others will say that many of the features of iMovie 06 made it hard for beginners to learn, so iMovie 08 is usually easier for the absolute beginner.
I use both iMovie 06 and iMovie 08 (iMovie 06 about 90%, iMovie 08 about 10%).
Many reviews of iMovie 08 recommend using both iMovie 08 and iMovie 06.
I do find that iMovie 08 is "feature reduced" and not as DVD friendly compared to iMovie 06. iMovie 06 is "timeline based", iMovie 08 is "clip based". The lack of a true timeline in IM08 is hard to get used to for some.
iMovie 08 is NOT an upgrade of iMovie 06. It is a completely new application. iMovie 08 is better for absolute beginners that don't want to burn a DVD. Most others will like iMovie 06 for its far greater editing power and ease of making DVDs. (Like creating Chapter Markers and Share to iDVD.)
When iLife 08 is installed, all of the old applications are automatically deleted EXCEPT iMovie 06, because Apple WANTS you to have it.
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 find iMovie 06 to be easier and faster to use than iMovie 08 on longer jobs (more than 10 mins). iMovie 08 is faster for shorter jobs.
iMovie 06 and iDVD 08 is a terrific combination.
The Web site below has a good comparison of iMovie 08 and iMovie 06.
http://www.geethree.com/slick/imovie8.html

Burn Disk - Can I Share iMovie with iDvd only

After completing an iMovie, can you send it direct to iDvd, then burn it on a disk OR do you have to share in media browser to burn a disk using iDvd? I thought I only needed to share with iDvd and then I would be able to burn the disk. When trying to do so, there is a file but it says it was not rendered correctly and nothing happens when attempting to burn a disk.

Hi
• Share/Export to iDVD - Usually don't work for me and when working delivers a poor result
• Share to Media Browser and then from within iDVD and media collecting it works OK
BUT if DVD is Your aim and You want good result - then iMovie'08, 09 or 11 are not tools of choise.
• iMovie up to HD6 - and -
• FinalCut any version
ARE !
Yours Bengt W

Will not share Imovie with Idvd. Gets so far and then a box saying Unable to prepare project for publishing because an error occured (-41)

Cannot SHARE project from IMovie to Idvd. Gets so far and then a box with a message saying Unable to prepare project for publishing because an error occured (-41).

Bengt is as always entirely correct, but another meaning of error -41 is that you have chosen the wrong encoding setting for the length of video you have:
iDVD encoding settings:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
That was for single-layer DVDs. Double these numbers for dual-layer DVDs.
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced two-pass technology to encode your video (The first pass determines which parts of the movie can be given greater compresson without quality loss and which parts can’t. The second pass then encodes those different parts accordingly) , resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned about the time taken.
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

Sharing iMovie with iDVD

I have just made an iMovie that is about 90 minutes in length. I tried to share it with iDVD and it says the movie is too long. I can burn it to a dual layer DVD so room on the DVD is not a problem. Is it possible to share a movie with iDVD and have it run longer than 60 minutes (as opposed to iDVD encoding it down to 60 minutes? Or do I have to split it into two movies? thanks in advance.
Gary
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You just need to change iDVD Preferences to Best Quality from the default Best Performance. Will encode for SL.

Buring iMovie with iDVD

After completing an iMovie ( with Photos and Video clips) and burning with iDVD I get a "swimming" ie a wavy appearance when playing dvd on computer or tv. Any ideas?

Hi
To little info to be able to suggest.
• What version of iMovie
• How did video play in iMovie - was it stabilized ?
• Recorded with what Camera eg Nikon D90 or miniDV tape Camera ?
• Brand of DVD
• Type of DVD
More info that might help us to pin-point the culprit ?
Yours interested Bengt W

Photo enlargement when burning iMovie to iDVD

I am currently making a slide show on iMovie. 40 to 50 photos. After burning to DVD there is ONE photo that enlarges out of space. It is the same photo every time. I have tried Ken Burns ON, Off and Fixed. It plays fine on the computer but when I play it on DVD with TV this same photo keeps enlarging completely out of the photo space. All photo were taken with same camera, go figure. I have "Shared" iMovie to Desktop and then drag and drop in idvd. I have also burned from iMove to iDVD and still this ONE photo will not transfer correctly. Even tried scanning to iPhoto JPEG and still it won't work. And tried scanning the business card to iPhoto to JPEG. Anybody got any ideas. This is driving me up the wall.

I find that using Share>Media Browser and selecting the HD 720p option works well with iDVD. I haven't tested this recently (so it may have improved), but the option to Share to iDVD appears to produce inferior results compared to the Media Browser option. Others here have reported this also. Bear in mind though that I'm using interlaced imports - AVCHD, either as Full (1920 x 1080) or Large (960 x 540).
The Media Browser option produces an H.264 file, either in an .m4v container or a .mov container, depending on the size. The Share to iDVD method, however, produces an Apple Intermediate Codec file (AIC) - at least the last time I checked. Perhaps iDVD doesn't handle AIC as efficiently as H.264.
You can access the shared movie in iDVD's Media>Movies panel. Just drag it from there into the iDVD theme background.
I'm not sure that I've addressed all the points in your post Guy, but I hope this helps in some way.
John

Failed to burn iMovie project, iDVD "not responding"

A preemptive thanks for your time.
I am trying to burn iMovie projects through iDVD. I have done this successfully in the past. What happens now is after going through many of the steps up through Encoding Video, the process gets stuck when the status window says "Encoding Audio". No error message occurs or anything like that, the burn wheel stops spinning, and the "multicolored wheel of computer confusion" pops up. Needless to say this means that I am even more confused than the computer and examining the iDVD icon in the dock reveals that it is "not responding."
This same problem happens with two similar projects (one of which was burned successfully in the past.) I am using Sony DVD-R disks. The projects are the typical size for about 50 minutes of edited iMovie project (15GB).
HELP!

As Rich says:
This question is frequently asked!
iDVD is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages that iDVD is not responding. It is. Do not force quit.
Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
Make sure no other application is running, make sure you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!
(The current record mentioned here for encoding a DVD with lots of added audio etc is 47 hours!)

Burning imovie to Idvd drop out

I am burning my imovie to dvd but it is quitting each time during audio encoding. What can I do please?

How are you getting the movie from iMovie to iDVD? What version of iMovie are you using? If you're using the Share ➙ iDVD menu option (older versions of iMovie) change that to the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option and add the movie to iDVD via the Media Browser in iDVD.
As for the encoding error see Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic for possible causes and solutions: Multiplexing Error
Then follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty 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.

Error message when burning HD with iDVD

When i try to burn a HD movie directly from iMovieHD( v. 5,02) with iDVD( v. 5.0.1), i get an error message code OX8002006D, followed by another:
"Burning Finished.---errors were found during burning process."
and "there was a problem during multiplexing/burning"
and the disk is ejected blank.
With a Standard Definition movie, using the same DVD-R or DVD+R disks(4X) and same procedure, i have no problem. The movie was only about 2 minutes long with about 19 GB available.
Anybody out there who knows what's wrong?
Hans

There are a bunch of folders within your home folder, you may want to decide what exactly you want to back up or not.
Besides your personal folders (Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures), you may want to decide whether you need to back up the library folder. The library folder generally contains preferences for most of your applications, and also caches and applications support files. These can become really big in some cases (Mine is more than 8GB, will not fit on a dual layer DVD). And the Library>Caches folder contains temporary files that will change from time to time, this might be the cause of your previous error since the shortcut is no longer valid.
Once you chose your files and make sure they will fit on your blank CD/DVD, you can just do what you did before, drag the folders to a Burn folder, make sure you are not running any other apps, so they won't be modifying the files.
There are programs you can use to backup to CD/DVD, Disc burner like Toast will span across several discs if the data does not fit on one. For a more automated solution, Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html) can backup to disc images which you can then burn to discs. I personally don't know a lot backup programs that provide good support for CD/DVDs, so I'll leave this to other folks.
If you are going to backup regularly, I would recommend spending some money on an external drive. You can find quite a few free software for automated backup and saves money and time on burning CD/DVDs. Plus you have the advantage of being able to boot from the external drive should anything bad happened to your internal one.

The Real Question, Sharing iMovie With iDVD?

With iLife 08, sharing to iDVD was a pixelated mess when played back on a DVD player. They stated that they changed this I think? Is this true? Does iMovie 09 share with iDVD like iMovie 06 to iDVD results?

iMovie 08/09 can only process progressive video.
08 -- during export -- deinterlaced the DV video by simply dropping 1 field.
The new Share option uses -- during export -- deinterlaces by combining both fields into one frame. Both PAL and NTSC are scaled to 960x540 which is a size that works for both ATV and iDVD. It leaves it to iDVD to re-size for PAL or NTSC.
The question is what iDVD does with 540p. It should re-interlace the video giving good results. Doing so will un-combine the fields yielding interlaced video without combing on moving objects when viewed on a TV.
So -- how do the DVDs look when played on a TV?

Sharing imovie with idvd. Having big problems!!!!

I have tried to "share" my imovie project (13.76GB in size, approx 48 minutes duration) with idvd and nothing seems to be happening.
I understand that it will take a long time but it has been exporting for the last 24 hours. I have opened the "project info" window to keep track of the encoding process. After a 24 hour period the encoding bar hasn't filled with any blue to indicate the stage it is at.
I have also made sure the is plenty of space. I read that I need 15-20GB free space. I have 18GB of free space)
Please help me. I thought this part would be hassel free.
ibook superdrive & imac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi again wwww...,
The reason I recommend using the import video command from the file menu is so there is no chance of mistakenly dropping your 48 minute video into the drop box or background of your DVD menu. It is very easily done.
So, on with the show..... I can't say what is going on exactly, but please follow these steps and you should be up and running again in no time.
Firstly, restart your computer. Now install and run Onyx (it's a free disc maintenance app, link attached). Open Onyx and run 'Automation'. It will take about 10-15 minutes to do it's thing. While Onyx is running, open a finder window and type idvd.plist into the search box and delete this file. It is the preference file for iDVD. Be sure to delete this file ONLY. And repeat the process for imovieHD.plist and empty the trash. When Onyx has finished you will be promted to restart your computer.
After restart, open your iMovie project and go to the file menu>export or share>Quicktime and change the setting to Full Quality DV. Change the destination to the desktop for ease of finding. It will probably take an hour or so to export as a full quality dv movie and will be around the same size (GB) as your project. If you have 30Gb of free space this won't be a problem.
Now you have a self-contained, uneditable Quicktime version of your project. Now, open iDVD select your theme and then select 'import video' from the file menu and import the Quicktime movie. It should only take a few seconds to import. Then got to the file menu again and save the project (or apple command key + 'S'). And go back to the file menu and select 'save as disc image' and let it run. Don't use the computer while it's encoding the iDVD project and make sure you quit any other apps running and the screen saver too.
Just a final note. After you have exported your project to Quicktime you no longer need the iMovie file. You can delete it, however, you should also export your project back to your camera as another back up copy of your project. I have had some glitches with iMovie projects not seating into iDVD, which were solved by exporting to Quicktime. I never went into why, only how!
These steps should get you going again. It does seem like a lot of mucking around, but after you have it going again it will seem worth it.
Good luck and please post back with your results.
SR.
Onyx - http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
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Can't burn iMovie to iDVD (not responding) - after "Encoding Audio"

Hello,
I have a similar post in the iDVD board, but thought someone in this section may be able to help as well.
I have a 15 minutes project (almost 2 GB) iMovie show that I've attempted to burn to DVD through iDVD (4 times with the same problem)...
It goes through the "encoding menus" and videos, but gets stuck on "Encoding Audio" and in my Force Quit window says (Not Responding). I have almost 12 GB free on my PowerBook G4 and successfully burned a test DVD of this last week before completion (when I only had 7 free GB - I also added on another 2 minutes since then)...
Any help or ideas? I need to get this done ASAP...
Thanks
Chris

Chris, what I've found is that patience is the key here. You really can't count on the progress bar to let you know how far along in the process you are. I've run into the same problem as you. When the burn symbol stops spinning and you get the beachball/lollipop don't rush right off to force quit. Just because the force quit menu shows that iDVD is NOT RESPONDING does not mean that all is lost. What made me realize that iDVD was still working was the Activity Monitor located in your Utilities folder under applications (applications/utilities/activity monitor).
Do yourself a favor and run this app while burning you project. When you get to the point where it appears to hang on you check the status of iDVD in the activity monitor window. More than likely it will show that iDVD is still using a good % of your CPU (%CPU column numbers will constantly change as iDVD demands more or less from your processor). You may also notice that it may show that iDVD is not responding (as well as a couple other processes that are related to the prog), this doesn't mean a thing because iDVD is in reality still chugging along. Of course if the %CPU column is showing 0.00 then iDVD has indeed stopped workin in which case you do have some issues.
Hope this helps

0 For 3 In Making My First iMovie With iDVD (help!!)

Hello all,
I have just made my first attempt at making a DVD (via iMovie & iDVD). Firstly, this took a while, because the content (our honeymoon) was made w/ a mini-DVD camcorder (we've since exchanged for a Mini-DV camcorder), and I had to upload the movie to my Mac (miniDVD-->miniDV tap-->imported to Mac via iMovie {as one long clip which I segmented by hand later). Not sure if this was the best way of converting, but everything appeared to be going alright. Until....
Yesterday, I made my first attempts at taking my iMovie Project to iDVD to burn a DVD. Now everything looked ok. I played the movie in iMovie (everything good), and I set up everything in iDVD (and everything looked good). Unfortunately, the point where I have issues begin when I start to BURN a DVD.
Info on movie: it's about 59min; some music from my iTunes library; 4.0 Themes.
Attempt #1
After about 2.5hrs, I checked status, and iDVD was in a spinning ball state. This was during the "encoding audio" portion of process. Activity Monitor said iDVD & encoding server were "not responding". iDVD eventually QUIT.
Attempt #2
I then "deleted encoded assets" (found this suggestion from this forum), and made another attempt. This time I checked iDVD more frequently and watched specifically around the point when "encoding audio" began. This time iDVD made it through this process. And after an overall time of ~3hrs, my DVD popped out!!
I plopped it in my separate dvd player (and later MBP DVD Player app), and I got this frustrating result: audio for the menus (4.0 Fish theme), but no audio for ANY movie content! ugh!
Attempt #3
Once again after finding suggestions in this forum, I went about Saving As Disk Image via iDVD, and then went to bed. I woke up this morning to see that overnight, iDVD had "unexpectedly quit".
I'm at my witt's end here. I've read many forum threads w/ similar symptoms, but haven't found anything conclusive. There are a few things I may try:
o Import miniDVD directly to Mac via camcorder (no tape transfer)
o Not use any iTunes music in project
o Try a more "basic" them (not use movie clips)
In case you were wondering Disk Space shouldn't be an issue. The iMovie Project took up about ~20GB, and I still have about 70GB left out of the "spec-ed" 120GB (this is on a MacBook Pro w/ 2GB of RAM).
As you may guess, I'm a total iMovie/iDVD novice. I tried all the obvious things for making this movie and it didn't work. It seems I need a "work-around" here to make this movie. I thought this was "supposed" to be easy!
Please help!!
MacBook Pro (2.33GHz) Mac OS X (10.4.8) 120GB Hard Drive

Hey Sue Thanks for the quick response!!
Yeah, with regards to the DVD camera, that was a wedding gift out of my control (I had a nice miniDV on our registry, too!). oh well!
Is it really encoding audio from a DVD even though I saved the DVD movie onto a miniDV tape & then handled it that way on my Mac?
As for all my music media, they were all from my iTunes library and were AAC files. I had one of them which was "protected" (i.e. an itunes purchase). I just now removed it.
As for the DVD Media, I'm using TDK DVD-R. (should mention I actually have made another movie. However this was with video from someone's camcorder (i.e. really grainy). I just wanted to give it a try. I made this w/ a TDK DVD-R. However this is my first "real" movie.
Ok so, I'm giving it a 4th try. This time I'll:
o Remove the Protected iTunes song from iMovie & Save Project
o Trash the preference files from iDVD
o Run "Repair Disk Permission" via Disk Utility
o Save iMovie Project
o Share iMovie Project to iDVD & then give it another try!
Wish me luck! (& Thanks for the help!)

Burnning iMovie with iDVD on 4 gig CD

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