Creating Looping DVD

Is it possible to create a seamless looping video file in iDVD? (Seamless meaning looping without any glitch or hiccup at the loop point).
The video file would be exported to a la Cie silverscreen drive rather than burned to DVD.
Thanks for any info.

If I understand your question .. this is done iDVD
To turn on looping for a movie or a slideshow in the main iDVD window, select the movie or slideshow button on the DVD menu. Choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow. To turn off looping, choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow again.
To turn on looping for a movie or a slideshow (including autoplay movies and slideshows) in map view, click Map. Select the movie or slideshow icon and choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow. To turn off looping, choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow again. Looping autoplay movies can be useful for creating self-playing presentations, such as kiosks.
To turn on looping for a slideshow in the slideshow editor, double-click the slideshow button in the menu to open the slideshow editor. Select the checkbox labeled "Loop slideshow." To turn off looping, click the checkbox to deselect it.

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Creating looping DVD: no theme, no menu?

I want to burn a DVD without a theme in iMovie 08. According to iMovie08 help, I can do this by selecting "Loop" from the Advanced drop down menu, and the DVD will start automatically and keep playing until it stops Fine. That's what I want for one particular purpose.
Except that when I drag the video I want to burn into the Drop Zone, the Revolution theme (with horrid accompanying music) is in the Drop Zone too and I can't get rid of it.
In fact, when I select the video then Burn, it burns the Revolution theme thingy and ONLY that. If that's a menu, I don't want a menu either.
I want the DVD to start automatically and keep looping: NO THEME, NO MENU. (Sorry for shouting but it makes me nuts.) Was this fixed by iMovie 11? If not, IS it going to be fixed?
Can Apple give those of us who can't afford Final Cut Pro a "No theme" option, please? In fact, make No Theme a Theme!
And if i have to see that Revolution and hear that music one more time, I'm buying third-party DVD authoring software.

Hi
from. Mishmunken
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the auto-play box in iDVD's Map View, then set your auto-play item (your movie) to loop continuously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (auto-play) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the drop-zone (text needs to be black as well).
Disadvantage. The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time. Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage. One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Post-production with myDVDedit (free-ware)
Tools necessary. myDVDedit ( www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned. If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager.
//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
hope this helps!
From LynnLU USA
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Yours Bengt W

Can II have create a 160 photo slideshow as a looping DVD for a TV set DVD?

I have ~160 digital photos that I would like to run as a looping show for a family party. They range in size from .5 to 1.5 mb. I know each chapter in iDVD5 has a 99 picture limit, so that won't work for me.
I've imported the photos from iPhoto while in iMovieHD, put transitions between them, then imported that project while in iDVD. It had 2 chapters (one with 99 pics) with one chapter set to loop. I burned it and could watch it on my tv's dvd (a Samsung), though it did not loop at all. The DVD wouldn't even play on a Sony DVD player.
I can't quite justify (or afford a Final Cut product), but might have hit the limit of iLife.
G4 867MHz Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.5 GB RAM, iLife '05

Can I have create a 160 photo slideshow as a looping DVD for a TV set DVD?
Not sure why your iMovie method did not work. If you put your iMovie in the "autoplay" area you see in the map layout of iDVD and set it to "loop" in the advanced menu, it should loop just fine.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164968
If this didn't work on some DVD players, you might try another brand of DVD-R. I like verbatim.
Alternatively, you can make the slideshow in iPhoto and use "Send to iDVD" - this also creates a QT file, so it is not subject to the 99 slide limit.
John B
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With iDVD, how can I create a DVD that auto plays on insert and then loops?

I want to burn a presentation using idvd which will be played at an exhibition. how do I create a dvd without menu that auto plays upon insert and then loops?
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To create a OneStep DVD:
Connect your DV camcorder to your computer and set the camera to VTR, VCR, or Play mode. Turn on your camcorder if it doesn't turn on automatically.
Open iDVD and click the OneStep DVD button. (If iDVD opens to a recent project, choose File > OneStep DVD.)
Insert a recordable DVD disc.
iDVD rewinds the tape in the video camera and captures the video.
------------or-------------
To burn a OneStep DVD from a folder:
Choose File > "OneStep DVD from Movie."
Locate the movie you want to add in the dialog that opens, then click Import.
Insert a blank DVD disc into the optical drive.
This kind of disc is sometimes called "kiosk mode" and is a good way to create demos or other presentations that play automatically and require no user interaction.

Which app will allow me to create a looping DVD?

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How can I create a dvd with NO theme?

I'd like to create a DVD that shows an image of my choice when inserted in player, with one play button start movie. All themes seem to have some moving graphic or fancy stuff.

Hi
Easy is to put movie into AutoPlay box in organizing view in iDVD window (top left most box)
But this ends in a menu - This can be a black photo to simulate No Menu
All themes seem to have some moving graphic or fancy stuff.
No - and especially the old ones. AND by using the mid round button under the iDVD menu window (the one with two semi-circular arrows) You turn off Animation - I always do !
from. Klaus1 in Somerset, UK
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well).
Disadvantage. The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time. Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage. One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary. myDVDedit ( www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager.
//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
hope this helps!
From LynnLU USA
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Yours Bengt W

Is it possible to create a DVD in iDVD without using the themes they provide?

Is it possible to create a DVD in iDVD without using the themes they provide?

Hi
No Menu DVD
from. Mishmunken
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the auto-play box in iDVD's Map View, then set your auto-play item (your movie) to loop continuously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (auto-play) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the drop-zone (text needs to be black as well).
Disadvantage. The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time. Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage. One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Post-production with myDVDedit (free-ware)
Tools necessary. myDVDedit ( www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned. If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager.
//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
hope this helps!
From LynnLU USA
www.mediasoftmac.com/dvd-creator-articles/convert-mov-video-to-dvd-on-mac.html#1 29
Yours Bengt W

How do I create a DVD with no theme, i.e., it plays what was recorded when inserted in the player?

How do I create a DVD with no theme, i.e., it plays what was recorded when inserted in the player? Nothing extra, just the recorded content.

Hi
No Menu on DVD
from. Mishmunken
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the auto-play box in iDVD's Map View, then set your auto-play item (your movie) to loop continuously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (auto-play) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the drop-zone (text needs to be black as well).
Disadvantage. The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time. Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage. One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Post-production with myDVDedit (free-ware)
Tools necessary. myDVDedit ( www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned. If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager.
//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
hope this helps!
From LynnLU USA
www.mediasoftmac.com/dvd-creator-articles/convert-mov-video-to-dvd-on-mac.html#1 29
Yours Bengt W

Creating a DVD without any Menus (No Themes)

I know how to set iDVD to create a DVD to play immediately when inserted in a DVD player. However, when the show is over, it goes to a menu. Which I do not want it to do. How can I create a DVD without any menu?

How can I create a DVD without any menu?
WIth iDVD, the best you can do is autoplay. You can loop the autoplay movie, which would prevent it from going to the menu (unless the menu button is pushed).

Creating autostart DVD in kiosk mode?

I need to create a DVD or video file that will run in kiosk mode for an exhibit we have up. Since I've never done this before I have a few questions.
1. The video has already been created by our local cable TV folks and they said they can save it in any format we need. My first question is: what formats will work best?
2. It looks like just using the autostart feature in iDVD will allow me to create the DVD that will run automatically. Do I need to do anything to make it loop continuously?
3. One last question that might be beyond this forum: Is there a way (script, etc.) that we can start up the computer daily and have it shut down automatically, and begin running the DVD automatically? We'll be disconnecting the keyboard and mouse so that folks can't mess with the computer.
Thanks in advance for your advice/ideas.
Patrick

Hi
1. StreamingDV .DV or QuickTime full quality and as .mov
2. Don't know if this can be done.
I would in iDVD import movie into Autostart box (in box view - upper left most box)
then Select Looping.
I guess that a normal TV & DVD set-top player might autostart when mains returns.
But You have to try out first to be sure.
Yours Bengt W

How to "simply" create a DVD?

Hello.
Can anyone help me understand iMovie HD 6.0.2?
iMovie used to be simple to work with. Now I find every operation I try to perform is riddled with obstacles and confusion. I can no longer simple go from a completed iMovie file to iDVD. Everything gets screwey. For example, when I select “Burn Project to Disk,” I get this confusing message that says, “This feature creates a duplicate of your project onto a CD or DVD Rom. It does ‘NOT” create a video DVD for playing in a DVD player....???” Huh?
When I click Export, iDVD, I get another confusing message - “send your movie to iDVD - Share?”
I click Share and I get this message: “Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change the encoder setting in the Project Info window to Best Quality.”
What, where, how? Where is the “Project Info Window?”
I tried giving up with iDVD and using Toast. But where is the file to use? Where is the file to burn?
This is maddening. When I use my older laptop running 10.3.9 and iMovie 4, there are no problems. But this current version is driving me crazy. Nothing is simple and nothing works. It seems I have to (from my finished iMovie project) export to a QT movie file in order to then import it to Toast. But even then, what settings to use are a major confusion.
Sorry - I am frustrated. I just don’t understand how come this has become such a difficult chore. All I want to do is capture video and then create a DVD.
Whoosh! What a rant. But, like I said, I am seriously frustrated with this.

iDVD opens and that annoying music is playing which I cannot find a way to shut it off. And it just sits there playing that tune,
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To change the music completely, Look on the right side of your iDVD window. Find the tab 'Menu' on the bottom and select it. You will see at the top 'Loop duration.' Setting that to 0 will ensure that your menu page has no sound when burned. If you want sound, but not the default tune, go to 'media' and select 'audio' to find your iTunes music and choose one of them. To set it as your menu tune, click 'apply' and then go back to the 'menu' option to set the loop duration and volume level. Usually, you will not want to play the entire song.
a rapid moving dot or line keeps running left to right across the bottom. There's no clue what to do next.
That moving line represents the loop duration of your theme for audio and video and/or photos in drop zones. When the 'dot' reaches the right side, the action/audio it returns to the left and the action/audio repeats.
The Drop zone is visable but what do I use to drop in it?
The Drop Zone is for you to 'drop' photos and/or short videos to make your iDVD menu more interesting and creative. It is not a part of iMovie. iMovie has no way of knowing that you might want to put some of your favorite photos or movie clips in your drop zone. You have to select for yourself which items you want in your DVD.
Just as commercial DVDs often have clips of their movies moving on their main DVD menu, so you can create this effect. You can change your theme to find one that has only a few drop zones. If you have iDVD's older themes, some of them do not have drop zones and choosing one of those thems might make it easier for you.
Putting a photo in a drop zone is easy to do with drag and drop from iPhoto or from any other photo that you just drag into iDVD.
I tried Open DVD Map and am faced with another mysterious confusing window showing three smaller squares in it, each a small picture of what looks to be the theme and then the first frame of my movie
The Map view is designed to give you a pictorial view of the menus/paths of your movie in iDVD. First will be your main menu and then branching off will be your submenus if you have chapters in your movie. Under each submenu will be a movie icon of the beginning of each chapter.
Your movie must not have chapters, so you should see just three squares. The first one should be gray and say to drag content here to automatically play when disk is inserted. This option is to be used if you don't want any theme, just to have the movie play straight away. The second square will be your iDVD main menu screen and the third will be the first frame of your movie.
Do I click Burn Anyway?
Only if you are satisfied with your iDVD project, have the theme you like, have the audio and its duration you want, filled the drop zones(if any) with your photos and you have checked to see that your movie plays ok with 'preview.'
Most of us highly recommend that before you actually burn a disk, you save your iDVD project using the 'Save as disk image' command. This will look as if the project is burning, but will create an image of the project for you. You can use this to see if there are any burning problems and you can play it back on your computer to see that is is ok before you burn to disk. Then, you can burn directly from the disk image to disks. (When you get to this point, post back if you cannot see how to do this).
Also, PLEASE read and do the tutorials as Lennart advises.....they are quite informative and guide you through this process. You are making it much harder for yourself if you skip this important information source.

Hi everybody, I am trying to create a DVD pal without menu with the program iDVD from a .mov file. Any ideas? Thanks so much.

Hi everybody, I am trying to create a DVD pal without menu with the program iDVD from a .mov file. Any ideas? Thanks so much.

(From fellow poster Mishmumken: )
How to create a DVD in iDVD without menu (there are several options):
1. Easy: Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously. Disadvantage: The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy: If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well). Disadvantage: The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Roxio Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way": Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary: myDVDedit ( http://www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
Our resident expert, Old Toad, also recommends this: there is a 3rd export/share option that give better results. That's to use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option. Then in iDVD go to the Media Browser and drag the movie into iDVD where you want it.
Hope this helps!

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I have created a show in Motion 5 that will be shown at a memorial service. It has to be a DVD and it has to loop automatically (Kiosk). I know I can create the DVD directly from Motion or export the show to Compressor (I don't think there's any difference), but I don't see a way to have it loop automatically. Any help would be appreciated.
Ron

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Looping DVD's

Hi all,
For some time I have created simple DVD's with menus.
Often those DVD's are used at shows, so I obviously link one clip to the next and the last one loops to the first clip.
At home, they will run continuously, but a client of mine tells me that on his pc machines, everything works fine, but it does not loop.
Anybody have any insight?
Thanks
Jeff

Nope. If you put markers in you can do various things to control the playback. Stories could work.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php
Quick rundown - let's say 3 clips with markers at the beginning of each clip
Play All - Markers 1,2,3 in the story
Just section 3, only marker 3
Etc. etc. Any combination you want with repeats. Story with Markers 1,2,1,3,1,1 will play those sections in that order.
You can set the end jump for each story anywhere you want, including back to the same story. Mae sure you can break out with the menu button on the remote to get to menus to get to other sections.

When creating a DVD face in Photoshop 13 my save options are limited to .PSE and .PDF. Why can I not save as a jpeg or other file format? This was never an issues in Elements 10 (my previous version).

I just recently purchased Elements 13. I am in the process of creating a DVD face for a video. The design is complete and I would like to be able to save it as a JPEG so I can use it in another program that prints my DVD's. The problem is that it only allows me to save the file as at PSE or a PDF. No other options are available. Why is this? I upgraded from Elements 10. In Elements 10 I have never had a problem saving this type of project as a JPEG. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ANSWER FOUND!
Once I finished composing my question I went back and spent some time to figure out the problem. Rather than choosing the "save as" option, which doesn't work, or attempting to choose "export" (grayed out), the correct option is to choose "export creation", which is near the very bottom of the initial drop down options. That works! I still think it would make sense to have it as an option in the "save as" area.

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