Can iDVD projects be saved on Apple TV?

Can iDVD projects be saved on Apple TV?
Thanks,
Ken

No, export the source movie fit the tv specs.
H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): Up to 5 Mbps, Progressive Main Profile (CAVLC) with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps, 960 by 540 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
iTunes Store purchased video: 320 by 240 pixels, 640 by 480 pixels, 720 by 480 pixels (anamorphic), or high-definition 720p
MPEG-4: Up to 3 Mbps, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

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Can iDVD projects be saved/viewed on Apple TV?

Hello. Curious if iDVD projects can be saved to Apple TV?
Thanks,
Ken

Apparently the answer is No. However you can view the antecedent iMovie project in the form of H.264 according to Winston C. on the AppleTV Forum. In other words, you'd have to finalize the iMovie Project (not the iDvd project file) as follows:
imovie projects need to be finalised as h264 video files so as to be used with the tv. Quite simple really, just share as a movie, choosing the size of movie that suits the source video you have used in the project.
But as suggested above, it's likely a good idea to verify the above info within the proper forum. Those specific links follow:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7398173&#7398173
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8622290&#8622290

Can a project be saved on a dvd without rendering or encoding?

Can I save the data of my project on a dvd or cd without rendering it, encoding it or transcoding it? and then be able to load it again with losing any files?
Please help!!

Elio,
I'm not clear on exactly what you wish to save to writable media. If it's just your Project file (.PRPROJ), then the answer is yes. This would be a data CD, or DVD. These files are not very big, so a CD would probably work fine.
Now, if you wish to "archive" your Project, complete with the media files, you probably need a bunch of DVD's as these files will be in raw form and not compressed. Project Manager can be used to "archive" your Project, but you will very likely want to do this to a large HDD, and not to writable media.
Also, I might be missing what you want completely.
Hunt

Can Captivate 6 projects be saved as Captivate 5.5 or 5?

I just want to know if I can work with my co-workers who have Captivate 5.5/5 installed if I upgrade to Captivate 6? Can the projects be saved down to be compatible with 5.5/5? Please advise.

Installing Captivate 6 won't automatically wipe out your Cp5 install because they are installed into different folders. I have every version of Captivate from 3 through to 6 on my development laptop!
But like others have warned, upgrading project files to newer versions is always a one way trip. So you need to be careful that if you double click on a project file it gets launched by the right version. Sometimes the newly installed version will get precedence and open all Cptx files, whether it was used to create them or not. If you're not paying attention, and you hit Save, you might have just unwittingly upgraded an older project.

How do I archive iDVD project? Best/Smallest size?

Hi,
I need to know the best method to save a movie project that was made in imovie, then burned to DVD using iDVD. I want to save a copy of the finished product for archival purposes on an external drive. I want to be able to pull up this archive and be able to burn another copy of it to DVD or just be able to view the archived movie on my powerbook (directly from the external. I want it to be saved in the smallest size. I am ruling out saving the imovie project, as that is usually up to 12 or 14gb. I tried to save the iDVD project that was burned to a disc, but I wasn't able to view that again, or burn it to another dvd disc? Would it make sense for me to edit the project like always in imovie, open iDVD, and save it as a disc image first, and then burn it to DVD-R whenever I need a copy? And if I do this, is the disc image file going to be able to be viewed on the powerbook, without using the burned DVD? Also, I read on here that the iDVD doesn't have an option to burn to disc image? I know Toast Titanium does. I have that also. But, can I edit the movie in imovie, and then just open Toast Titanium and use it to make a disc image? And then at a later date, call up the disc image with Toast and just use Toast to burn a DVD? Also, I should note that I will need to burn 2 imovie projects to the DVD (they are 1 hr long t.v. episodes each) I need to put 2 episodes on each DVD. I know how to burn them from imovie directly to iDVD, but then I am back to the whole question of archiving them in something other than imovie projects or iDVD projects?????????
Thanks to anyone who can advise
-Tom

Oh my, where to begin.
If you think you will ever want to change your saved iDVD project (change the menu, add more videos) then keep the Project file. That is what iDVD can read. After you've burned a DVD (or made a disc image) with iDVD there still is an encoded MPEG inside the Project file. So you don't need to save the iMovie, just the iDVD project file (or project folder if your version has more than just a file).
A disc image is the same thing as having the video DVD written to your hard drive. iDVD doesn't open a DVD; nor will it open a disc image. When you mount a disc image (double-click on it) there will be a new icon on your desktop. If you open DVD player, it will play the movie from the mounted disc image the same as if it was playing a DVD disc. You may need to choose Open VIDEO_TS in the DVD player File menu and select the VIDEO_TS folder in the mounted image in order to play the video. If nothing appears on the screen, press the space bar to start playback.
Disc images are burned in Toast using the Image File option in the Copy window. You can burn one disc image to one DVD.
What I recommend is that you add your multiple movies to your one iDVD project before saving a disc image or burning a DVD. iDVD 4 can handle up to 2 hours of video per DVD, although I think it is best to keep at near 90 minutes or less for best quality.
As for saving a copy for future use: you need to save the iDVD project itself if you want to re-use it in iDVD. If not, you can save a disc image which is the same as burning another DVD except it is on the hard drive. By the way, Toast can make a disc image from your burned DVD. Insert the DVD, select it in the Toast Copy window and choose "Save as Disc Image" from the Toast File menu.

Can't open saved iDVD project

I've been working on my first iDVD project for some time now using iMovie/iDVD08. The first version (movie and slideshow) works fine and I can open the associated .dvdproj file and make amendments if and as required. The DVD which was produced looks good.
However, as it's a 57-minute long movie, I was keen to introduce chapters. I used GarageBand for this purpose, sent the movie with chapters back to iDVD and added appropriate Scene menus. All worked fine on my computer. I saved the new project and retrieved it (just to be sure to be sure). All OK so far. I burned a new DVD which looks good and scene selection works great, however ....
can't now retrieve the .dvdproj. Any attempt to do so causes iDvd to hang. Activity monitor shows "Encoder server not responding." I need to force quit this process and also iDvd itself to get out of this bind. Very frustrating. I've been through this entire process now twice (recreating from first chapter-free version) and the problem recurs.
Can anybody assist?

Hello, Conor,
Welcome to the discussions.
First, you should delete iDVD's preference file. With iDVD closed, go to your home folder(YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist.
Drag this plist file to the trash. Don't worry; iDVD will create a new fresh one when you relaunch it.
See if you can open your project now.
Post back if this did not work.
Now, if you had an iDVD project that burned successfully, and you still have that iDVD project saved, you should be able to open it just as you did when you were working on it. Getting that message about the encoder server not responding is strange. Your project should already have encoded since you were able to burn a DVD. That problem may be resolved by deleting the plist file. You might also try just shutting down the computer and restarting it.
However, remember that iDVD is not like iMovie where the project's contents are actually saved within the project. An iDVD project should be thought of as a virtual or alias project. Its files point to their location on your computer. So, your iMovie is not physically within iDVD's files. If you move or delete any files that your iDVD project needs, iDVD will not be able to locate them.
It is highly recommended that you do a 'save as disc image' for each of your iDVD projects. This process looks just as if iDVD is burning a disk, but it is creating a disk image that can be used to do the actual burn, using Disk Utility.
It is useful to keep your projects as their disk images to do further disk-burning of that project in the future. The disk images cannot be edited, so be sure you are completely finished editing your project before creating a disk image. A disk image is a self-contained file, so you no longer need to keep your original iMovie or iDVD projects. Keeping only the disk images will also save drive space.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Why do you still need the iDVD project if you have already burned your DVD? If you want to make further edits to your iMovie and burn a new DVD, you can always recreate your iDVD project.....not the simplest solution, nut once you have created an iDVD project, it is usually fairly quick to recreate it .
If you just want to burn more disks from that project, you can always use the first DVD to make a disk image of your project, and use that disk image for further burning.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1945.html

Saving and reopening an iDVD project from a hard drive - HELP!

Hello! I am a moderately experienced user of iLife and am starting to use it for a business(memorial videos, sports highlight videos, etc) My problem is this: After I finish a project and export it to iDVD I want to save it to my external hard drive and store it there(like a file cabinet for all my finished projects, so that I can come back to them later, if needed) and I am having difficulty when I do this and then go back to open it - iDVD can't find my files for the pictures and sometimes the audio and video. This said, this is my process: Create project in iMovie, export to Garage Band to create chapters, export to iDVD.(this is 08 BTW) At every step I save to the desktop. Then when I am finished burning my DVD, I create a folder(eg., Bob and Kate's Wedding) on my hard drive and put all the media from the desktop in that folder(eg, the iMovie file, the Garage Band file, the iDVD file and a folder of the pictures I used also.
If anyone can shed some light on a better process, or maybe a reason why I cannot just go into my hard drive and double click the iDVD project and burn extra copies, that would be fantastic!
I appreciate any insight. I love doing this work, but with 3 kids, I rarely get time to research the answers to my questions outside of this board!!!
TIA - Lis

Hi Mamalisa
iDVD can't find my files for the pictures and sometimes the audio and video.
And welcome to apple discussions. If you plan to do further modifications to your iDvd project then follow these steps. (btw, iDvd doesn't like it when you change the actual location of video / audio assets once encoded / burned to DVD-R unless it's saved or rather archived beforehand).
On the other hand if you plan no further changes then you may wish to follow this instead of the above.
By sdmacuser at 2009-09-03
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.

What's actually IN a saved iDVD project?

After upgrading to iLife '06, I wanted to burn a new copy of an iMovie project I first put on iDVD a few weeks ago. I've never done this before; always burned all copies at once.
When I open the named/saved iDVD project (both from within Documents and via Open Recent), it shows me empty Drop Zones and a blank menu. Where's the theme/audio etc. I put together when I first created the project?
Thanks.

It is easiest to duplicate a video-DVD with Toast (i.e. a 3rd party app).
With the Disk Utility it is very easy to accidentally burn a data-DVD (instead of a video-DVD), so follow these instructions strictly:
- Using Disk Utility (Mac OS X 10.3 and higher):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
1. Insert the DVD-R video disc that you created with iDVD into the SuperDrive.
2. Open the Disk Utility application (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility).
3. Select the disc (not just the disc session) you want to copy from the listing.
4. From the Images menu, choose New and the choose Image from "your disk name".
5. Type a file name and choose "DVD/CD Master" from the Image Format pop-up menu.
6. Click the Create button. After the image has been created you should see it in the disk listing in the Disk Utility window.
7. Eject the DVD-R video disc.
8. Select the disk image you created from the listing (that *.img is also mounted on the Desktop).
9. Click the Burn icon in the toolbar.
10. When prompted, insert a blank DVD-R disc.
11. Click the Burn button.

How do I run iMovie or iDVD projects on Apple TV?

I just bought an Apple TV. I see how to view photos, but I can't figure out how to put movie clips in a form that I can transfer to my Apple TV for viewing on my HD TV.

You can't use either iDVD or movie projects with the tv, they are just what they say n the tin - Projects. All projects need finalising before they can be used elsewhere. iDVD projects will be finalised as DVD's and of course the tv doesn't play DVD's.
imovie projects need to be finalised as h264 video files so as to be used with the tv. Quite simple really, just share as a movie, choosing the size of movie that suits the source video you have used in the project.

Can't burn my IDVD project on a DVD or the desktop

Hello,
I made a project with IDVD and now I want to burn it on a DVD, but this is not working.
First it seems to work, but then when he is at the stage to burn the movies and slideshows. IDVD gives the error with encoding/ decoding. I tried it several times but I get all the time the same error.
I tried to copy my file on the desktop, but I got the same problem.
Could anybody please help me?!
Thanks!
Monique

What version of iMovie? iMovie '08 or iMovie HD (v. 6)?
What brand and format DVD? You should use DVD-R. Verbatim works perfectly for me. Memorex and TDK have bad track records here...
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

I can't find movie in Media Movies when trying to add to iDVD project.

I finalised a project in iMovie and it is showing in the Event Library when i am in the iMovie programme. However, when I try to add it to the iDVD I am working on, it is not showing in the Movies panel in the media section. Please can anyone help.

Hi
Yes - You need to
• in iMovie
• create a NEW Project
• add material from Event's to this
• Edit it as much or little You want
• Share to Media Browser - and as Medium (ev. Large but can give Audio problems) and NOT AS LARGE ! and do not "Share to iDVD" as resulting DVD will be BAD.
• Close iMovie
• Now first open iDVD and Create a NEW iDVD Project
• Now You find Your movie - down to the Right - Media-button/Movies
• Drag and drop it into the big Menu window (not into a drop-zone) but so that it returns the text "Play Movie"
AND - Do as the rest of us - Save as a DiskImage - and test play this with Apple DVD-tool - to see that it plays OK - No need to waste DVD disks. If OK then burn the actual disk.
Yours Bengt W

I can no longer burn iDVD projects or regular disc images... what's up?

When I try to burn an iDVD project it gets to the burn stage, ejects the disc, then just sits there. It says that it has one minute left. The disc is untouched and still blank.
When I try to save my iDVD project to a disc image then burn it, I get this error:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2482/3732704004e249c50ff2o.png
What on earth is going on here? I have read several other reports of similar behavior, but no solutions.

That generally means what it says, for which there are mostly two possible reasons:
Your laser lens is dirty: try cleaning it using a proprietary CD/DVD player lens cleaner (the type with a tiny brush - no liquids please!).
You are using a brand of media that your Superdrive doesn't like (they can by picky!). Most of us here get the most consistent results from using Verbatim or Fuji DVD-R, burned at 2x or 4x.
Additional information here, which may or may not apply:
iDVD: Troubleshooting issues with burning discs
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
Note the link at the bottom of the page to "iDVD 6: Exceeding motion menu duration prevents burning" in case that is the source of your burning problems.

What does saving an iDVD project do?

After I create an iDVD project and burn a DVD, I save the project, and it is usually about a 4Gb project taking up lots of hard drive space.
I have tried to use this file to burn another DVD copy, but I find it does not work. If I click burn, it starts the whole encoding cycle again.
Also, I recently need to change the photo quicktime file in a burned DVD, so I opened up the saved project, deleted the photo slides show, imported the new slideshow and burned again (there was a 50 min movie on the DVD also). I was hoping it would encode the new photos only, but it re-encoded the whole DVD.
Question - What is the saved DVD pjoject for if you can't use it for these points above?

Thanks Michael, and Lennart,
I may be a bit thick, but let me try one more set of questions.
1. If i save a iDVD project it takes up 2-3Gb of disk space, but you can do anything with this file other than reburn it and have it go through the whole encoding process again. Why would anyone save that file?
2. Is it confirmed that if I haved a saved iDVD project and I make a change or add one asset then all assets have to be re-encoded? or is there a shortcut encoding if I'm working from an already encoded iDVD project.
3. Is it right that it makes more sense to choose not to save rendered files in preferences, since you can't do anything with them and they take up lots of space (sorry this is sort of the same as Q1)?
Thanks again,
Tony

Saving iDVD projects

Since all of my iMovie source video (events) and projects are located on an EXTERNAL drive, I also like to store my iDVD projects there. I created a folder there to save them in.
Why then do SOME of these iDVD projects also end up in the Document folder of my iMac INTERNAL drive? SOME of them are 2 and 3 gig files!
Don't get it, and I'm afraid to trash the ones in the document folder.
HELP

I've noticed that the Documents folder is the Mac's 'default' destination, ie, unless you tell it otherwise, your work will be saved there. The key seems to be to watch the screen carefully when saving out so all your stuff goes to where you want it to go.
As to whether it's OK to transfer files out of Documents over to the external -- someone else will have to weigh in on that. Or you can run a small experiment on a short practice project.

Can iDVD 09 open and work with an iDVD project i made in 06?

I am bringing over my iMovie 06 and iDVD projects over to new mac with iDVD 09. I took out iMovie 09 and resinstalled 06HD. The iMovie 06 files now open ok, but not the iDVD 06 projects, when I try to open them with iDVD 09. Should I remove iDVD 09 and install iDVD 06.
I heard that iMovie 06 files will import ok into iDVD 09, but now assuming that the iDVD 06 projects themselves will not open in the newer program.

i uninstalled iDVD 09 and installed iDVD 06 to see if I could open the G4's old iDVD projects.
Error message says iDVD 06 will not work with this OS. What gives? Apparently iMovie HD06 will work, as far as I can tell, with just a few tests.
What CAN I DO HERE to bring over my iDVD 06 projects so I can work them on Snow Leopard?
Luckily the dvd projects are not many and not complex. But there are so many issues with all of this. I might as well have a computer that knows only Chinese characters. I got the new mac so my video work wouldnt clog up on the old G4. But this is beyond clog. This is cement, stuck at the starting gate.

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