Compressed image going from iPhoto to iDVD

Why is it that the image gets compressed—like a mild version of CinemaScope opening credits on 4:3 TV—when I export from iPhoto to iDVD? The QT looks fine when I play it in QT but as soon as I bring it into to iDVD (or DVD Studio Pro), it gets squeezed. Is there a workaround?
Thanks!

I am curious about this as well. I can scan or import photo into iPhoto and they look perfect. Matter of fact, I know these are high quality images because I scan them in at 300dpi or larger and verify image settings in photoshop. They ALWAYS look good in iPhoto/Photoshop and in preview mode from iMovie but once burned in iDVD they come out like a low res preview in iPhoto - I keep waiting for it to bring in the high quality version but this never happens?

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Images imported from iPhoto to iDvd are not as sharp as originals. Any solution?

Trying iDVD for the first time. Imported images from iPhoto. However on the DVD, the images are not as sharp as the original files which are very sharp and well-focused. Any solutions or is this kind of degradation just to be expected?
Thank you!

Hi
There are several layers to this.
a. There are no HD-DVD - DVD is as standard only Standard Definition as on old CRT-TVs and can never be anything btter as iPhoto showes on Your Mac screen (5 to 10 times higher resolution)
b. One can get a result less than iDVD SD quality and down to really bad by
• Using iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - as they discard every second line in the picture = 50% loss
• Using iMovie HD6 and NO Ken Burns effect AND "Share to iDVD" as this also results in disaster (heavely pixelated Bad bad pictures) - (as iMovie will render badly)
c. I build my SlideShow in
• iMovie HD6 - and no Ken Burns effect - BUT I close iMovie and import iMovie movie project (SlideShow) from within iDVD and now iDVD will render and so much better.
• FinalCut also delivers maximal quality over to iDVD
(from FCE/P - Export out as QuickTime .mov - NO QuickTime conversion (Important))
• iMovie'08 to 11 - I Share to Media Browser and as Large (not HD or other)
iMovie HD6/FinalCut + iDVD will give as high quality possibly to the resulting DVD.
I use
• Verbatim DVD-R
• set down burn speed to x4 (Plays better on many DVD-Players)
• Pro Quality encoding - I got the time and like the result
Yours Bengt W

Trying to add album from iphoto into idvd slideshow. Not all photos are loading. Message "creating thumbnail images...(31 remaining). Been there a long time. What is wrong?

trying to add album from iphoto into idvd slideshow. Not all photos are loading. Message "creating thumbnail images...(31 remaining). Been there a long time. What is wrong?

Open your iPhoto Library, go to that particular album and verify that you can view the full sized version of each image by double clicking on them. Report back with the results.
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Slide Show from iPhoto to iDVD

How do I transfer a slide show from iPhoto to iDVD? I like the effects in the show make in iPhoto, and I don't see anything comparable in iDVD. Thanks.

Export the slideshow to QT and then add the QT movie file to an iDVD slideshow. This will scale the movie file to the TV safe area like it does with still photos avoiding the approx. 10% image loss due to TV overscan on older TV set.
Another slideshow application to consider is PhotoPresenter which offers over 25 animated themes, some of which are demostrated here.
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Importing photos from iphoto into idvd

I am trying to import photos from iphoto into idvd for a slideshow. When the photos move into idvd they are not in the same order as they were in the iphoto library. What could be the possible cause of this?? I did go into iphoto and place comments in after the fact. Would that have anything to do with it?

Try this possible solution from acgray on Mac OS X Hints:
I have worked with many users who like to take iPhoto albums and make DVDs of them with iDVD. However, one very annoying bug (feature?) has to do with the fact that when you are in iDVD, it randomizes the sort order of the Photos in your album. Not only that, but it is painstaking and time consuming changing the order in iDVD.
My solution..
Select All in the album in iPhoto you want to use in iDVD as a slideshow. Then use File -> Export -> File Export. The secret is to select "Use Album Name" as this will rename the images in sequential order, based on the order that you put them in. Save them in their own new folder somehwere easy to find (ie on the Desktop).
Then, in iDVD, either drag, or I believe you can import the entire folder into the Slideshow project window, and voila! your slides are in order. I believe you can throw away the folder with the exported images as they should now be saved into the Project, but don't quote me on that.
Here are a few other helpful links on this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8967410&#8967410
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9159493&#9159493
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10963514&#10963514
http://www.kraehe21.de/iptja/
Hope the above suggestion/s help but if not just come on back.
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Including "Comments" from Iphoto to iDVD

I am trying to include Comments from Iphoto to iDVD and could use any suggestion on how to do this? I just want to be able to see the copy we have worked so hard to type in next to each photo.

Export the slideshow to QT and then add the QT movie file to an iDVD slideshow. This will scale the movie file to the TV safe area like it does with still photos avoiding the approx. 10% image loss due to TV overscan on older TV set.
Another slideshow application to consider is PhotoPresenter which offers over 25 animated themes, some of which are demostrated here.
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Wanting to use Photoshop CS6 to open images directly from iPhoto 11. Using OSX10.8.2 and iPhoto 11. Just installed Photoshop CS6 and want to open images directly from iPhoto. Before I installed PS I was not able to edit photos in iPhoto 11. Nothing

Wanting to use Photoshop CS6 to open images directly from iPhoto 11.
Using OSX10.8.2 and iPhoto 11. Just installed Photoshop CS6 and want to open
images directly from iPhoto. Before I installed PS I was not able to edit photos
in iPhoto 11. Nothing happens when I click on ‘edit‘ it is blank.
And now it will not work using Photoshop CS6 either.
From Help Center I have gone to iPhoto/Preferences/ Advanced and chosen Photoshop CS6 to Edit Photos but then cannot find an 'Open' to click? Perhaps this is the problem?
When I select a photo in iPhoto and click the Edit button - nothing happens.
Please advise. Glenys

This may be of help to you:
Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window
that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
Note: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.
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Exporting slideshow from iphoto to idvd /message says" disc is full"

when exporting slideshow from iphoto to idvd /message says" disc is full" It is a new mac with 2gb extra memory. I have cleared out all extraneous files, so there should be room on the disc. Help, this is a student''s work and would love to help them burn the dvd slideshow.

Patricia
IS this your Hard Disk is full?
OS X needs about 10 gigs of HD space to function normally. It uses this space for things like Virtual Memory and temporary files and other OS operations.
I have cleared out all extraneous files, so there should be room on the disc
How did you do this? Did you empty the trash?
Regards
TD

Moving slideshow with 100 plus images from iPhoto to iDVD

When creating a slideshow in iDVD you have a default limit of 99 images. This becomes a problem when trying to create a large slideshow with no interuptions. My partner and I almost figured out a way around that. We created the slideshow in iPhoto rather than iDVD and then went to the "Share" menu and selected "Send to iDVD" and it sent the slide show over to iDVD exactly how it was created in iPhoto. The problem is we want to make sure that all transitions from slide to slide and the music are smooth.
Please comment on this topic.
Also in iPhoto there is a default movement (simular to Ken Burns effect) that we can't figure out how to turn off. There is an option to turn on Ken Burns effect but not to turn off all image movement during show.Note: these movements are differnt than Transitions. Let us know your thoughts.
Thanks

Instead of using iPhoto, how about using iMovie? Simply drag the photos from your desktop folder (if that's where the originals are located) directly into the clip pane of iMovie. Once the photos are in the clip pane, drag them into the time-line, then you can adjust the duration of each slide, add transitions and add music. This is the way I've always made slide shows and I have had excellent results. In iMovie, you can also easily adjust where the music aligns with the slides and overlap one song to the next. Also, if you drag the photos into iMovie directly (rather than using iPhoto), the Ken Burns effect will not be activated, which I think it is automatically if you import photos from iPhoto. But if you want the KB effect, I think you need to import the photo from iPhoto.

Slideshow project shared from iPhoto causes iDVD to crash

I've searched the forum and found a few threads that sounded like they pertained to this issue, but I didn't see much discussion beyond the question or any answers that had confirmations that they solved the problem.
I've created a slideshow project in iPhoto '08 (version 7.1.5), and I used the "Send to iDVD" option from the "Share" menu to send it to iDVD '08 (version 7.0.4). The export appears to work, a menu button appears in iDVD, and I'm able to work in iDVD to make changes to the theme, menu text, etc. However, if I try to actually view the slideshow movie in iDVD (either by double clicking on the menu button in the iDVD interface, or by using the "Preview DVD playback" button and then choosing the movie from the DVD menu), iDVD crashes. This is happening consistently. I've gone to my Movies folder and found the exported movie file that iPhoto created. This plays back in QuickTime Player just fine. If I add the movie to my iDVD project manually (as opposed to using the "Send to iDVD" option in iPhoto), it still causes iDVD to crash if I try to preview it.
Out of curiosity I brought a non-iPhoto generated QuickTime movie into iDVD, and it played back with no problem. I checked the compression format. The movie that worked was an Apple Motion JPG A movie file. I tried another non-iPhoto generated QuickTime movie file. This time iDVD crashed again. I noticed that this second non-iPhoto generated movie file said it was using the "Apple MPEG4 Decompressor" which is the same format as the movie file that iPhoto did create. I then tried an Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2 QuickTime movie file and that worked just fine. Is that the problem? Apple MPEG-4 Decompressor movie files cause iDVD to crash? Could that really be possible when this is the format that iPhoto uses when exporting? Is there a solution? I don't see a way to select a different compression format when exporting/sharing a slideshow from iPhoto.
I discovered this problem while teaching a class to 12 students who don't know much about doing creative projects on a Mac. There are going to be 12 folks who don't think very much of Apple's computers and/or its software if I don't get this problem solved quickly (last day of class is tomorrow). Everything has been going along swimmingly up until this final step of getting the slideshow into iDVD and then burning it to take home. I'm stunned that this isn't working since I've never run into this problem before, but it's happening consistently with every workstation I've tried here in this lab. All computers are running iLife '08. We're all trying to do the same thing. Slideshow project created in iPhoto, trying to send it to iDVD for burning. I been doing stuff with iPhoto and iDVD for years without problems, so I didn't think I needed to run through an entire process here in this lab before teaching the class. I just expected everything to work like it always does. D'oh!
Help!

UPDATE:
In case you're interested.... Just because iDVD crashes when I try to preview my slideshow movie from iPhoto doesn't mean I can't successfully burn my DVD project to disc. I was skeptical, but it works. The burn process went off without a hitch, and the DVD plays back using Mac OS X's built-in DVD Player.
Another workaround is to use the "OneStep DVD from Movie..." option in the iDVD file menu and avoid working inside of iDVD.
Someone suggested that perhaps my trouble was connected to using a legacy theme as opposed to one of the newest 7.0 themes. Any truth to that?
Just because I can burn a DVD successfully doesn't mean I wouldn't still like to fix the crash problem if possible. I'm grateful that I now know that I can work around the crashing problem, but I do think it's something that should be fixed and not just avoided.

Better Slideshow from Iphoto or IDVD?

I have a project I'm working on. It's strictly going to be digital photos, but there are about 400 of them. IDVD can create the slideshow, but I can only fit 99 slides in each section. This means I have to make four different slideshow. Furthermore, IDVD will only apply one type of transition to each slideshow, not individual slides.
I can make a slideshow from Iphoto that fits all of the pictures and I can customize the transitions for each slide.
I'm just wondering which one provides a better quality slideshow. I understand that Iphoto has a few more options to work with, but slideshows can only be exported to small, medium, or large. Will there be a noticeable quality difference between the two programs?
Thanks for any input..

I made the video 720X480 or 'large'.
This is actually the rectangular ('thin') NTSC DV video pixel size - in digital still image terms the real size is 640x480.
I've noticed, sacrificing a dvd to do so,
that the slideshow I made from iphoto fills the
entire screen while the one from idvd does not. I've
also noticed that some of the edges (nothing really
major) are cut off on my CRT TV.
CRT display devices (like TV sets) have something called 'ovescan' to hide the syncronization pulses included in the video signal.
iDVD gives you a choice of correcting for overscan if your DVDs will be viewed on TV sets (but on computer monitors, you will see black edges).
The video does not look as good as it could, but I
guess it is acceptable. I wonder if we'll have
higher quality options in the future release of IDVD?
Right now we are limited by the NTSC/PAL DV specification. As we all make the transition to HD, things should get a little better.

Going from FCP to idvd

Please help me in the easiest terms possible! What is the best (easiest!) way to compress a file from FCP so that I can use idvd to burn it? It is a 3 hour wedding video.

The normal process in FCP is the same whether you're eventually going to iDVD or to Compressor then DVD-SP.
Step 1: Export a QuickTime Movie (File->Export->QuickTime Movie). Do NOT recompress all frames, but do include chapter markers (if needed). You can make the movie self-contained or not (I prefer self-contained movies but you will need more space than for a reference movie).
Step 2: Use the resulting file in Compressor. Choose an appropriate preset based on your program's run time. If no preset exists for the run time you have, duplicate a preset then adjust the bit rate to accommodate the longer run time. Make sure you use AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio - not AIFF. Once you have the settings you need, let Compressor do it's thing. You'll end up with an MPEG-2 video file (.m2v) and a Dolby Digital audio file (.ac3).
Step 3: Import the two files from Compressor into DVD-SP for authoring and burning.
Note that with a program that long, you won't have much space for menus or any other extras which is why I recommended using dual-layer media.
This tool may help in determining the bit rate you need to use: http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/bitbudget.html
-DH

How do I put just pictures from iphoto to idvd to make a dvd?

Okay. I had a lot of trouble today. I wanted to get pictures from iphoto to a dvd. So I did that by going to iphoto then share then burn. Well, that worked on my blu ray. The pictures would come up sorta like iphoto (the rolls and everything) But my videos did not work however. But I figured out that they were .mpg and they need converted. But I heard that what I did (using iphoto) won't work on reg. dvd players but for some reason it works on my blu ray. Anyways, I heard that using idvd will work. How do I get my pictures over to idvd and burn it to a dvd? I tried doing this once but the themes were what was messing me up. The pictures would show up in a theme and I don't want that just the pictures. Any advice, tips, etc would be appreciated!

Hi lace66
Welcome to apple discussions. You may wish to pose the very same question to the iPhoto Forum also since I'm not 100% certain if any of the following apples to iPhoto 6 => iDvd. It's really a question for that particular forum. It's been months since I've worked in earlier versions of iLife. However, w/in ilife'08 as well as the latest iLife version '09; you could do it easily like this:
click here
Essentially you simply select the photos you want within iPhoto, go to the top menu where it says "Share" => Send to iDvd. Or (another option) you could burn your photos directly one step down on the drop down menu where it says "Burn" (directly below "send to iDvd") if I'm not mistaken.
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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Why duplicate images uploaded from iPhoto to Elements?

Uploading images from iPhoto to PS Elements 13 created duplicates of every image. I have a MAC with Maverick OS. Is this a problem for others? How does one organize in Elements with twice the number of images to handle? Very frustrating!!

Thanks for your reply, Barbara B.
iPhoto is slated to be discontinued in January 2015. I didn't mention that because of this, Elements will be my photo organizing software of choice, thus the upload.
Specifically, the issue I am having is that when uploading my 'unique' images from iPhoto to Elements, Elements duplicated each image, so now I have twice the number of images than were actually in iPhoto. There is no change in metadata, these are true duplicate images.
This seems to be an issue with Elements, and I wondered if anyone else has noticed the same problem?

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i can't make it out from your screenshot. are your pictures managed or referenced? it's very easy to determine if the problem is with a picture or with aperture. if it's referenced, just look it up with the finder and see if the system can read it. that way you know aperture's the culprit, otherwise you have some kind of disk corruption. if it's managed, you'll have to dig inside the library to look up the picture and do the same thing.
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