Dual Layer Dics from iDVD on iSight iMac

on the iLife page it says that iDVD supports dual layer disc on a Powermac. but Since the new iMacs have dual layer burners does this mean iDVD will happily burn dual layer dvd's?

You do not have to make your movie size smaller. As long as the content of your movie, the iDVD menus and submenus is under 120 minutes, and you choose 'High Quality' or 'Professional Quality' setting in iDVD's preferences, you can burn to a single layer DVD. iDVD automatically compresses the data to fit.
Be sure to use a good brand of DVD disk, such as Verbatim, Maxell, Taio Yuden. Many people have had problems with store brands, TDK and Memorex.
Burn at a slow speed of 4x or less.
I have burned many movies to DVD; most were around 25-30 GB in size, but some were 60-100 GB. All were under 120 min, and all burned fine.

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dont know what to do. the idvd project file is working fine untill i burn a disk. the problem is only on the burned dvd. so i guess i need to trash my whole project (AGAIN!!! YAY!!!) and start over (AGAIN!!! YAY!!!). wow, ive never had so many problems with an application before in my life. i dont have much hair left to pull out.
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Have you tried burning a disc image to the desktop yet from the file menu within iDVD6 and using apple's dvd player app to actually play said disc image?
Click here
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i seriously cant see why i cant just burn a dvd from the computer on a standard dvd but it is the menu's that bulk out the file. as long as it gets to DVD i dont mind losing the menus as long as it plays on other dvd players and not just my super drive?

You do not have to make your movie size smaller. As long as the content of your movie, the iDVD menus and submenus is under 120 minutes, and you choose 'High Quality' or 'Professional Quality' setting in iDVD's preferences, you can burn to a single layer DVD. iDVD automatically compresses the data to fit.
Be sure to use a good brand of DVD disk, such as Verbatim, Maxell, Taio Yuden. Many people have had problems with store brands, TDK and Memorex.
Burn at a slow speed of 4x or less.
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Combo Drive reading Dual Layer / booting from external DVD USB

I am helping a friend with an iMac G5. He has the combo drive which is not able to read the dual layer Leopard DVD. I have looked to see if there is a firmware update for the drive however no luck. I am able to put an external usb DVD and it reads the disk however I was not able to boot from the disk using keyboard commands I tried AppleOption+ShiftDelete, C, and also tried Option but no luck.
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Do you happen to have a more recent Mac that can read the Leopard installation DVD?
If so, you may be able to start up your Mac in FireWire Target Disk Mode,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
and let the iMac G5 use your Mac's optical drive to boot from the Leopard DVD.
Also, it is true that PowerPC Macs can generally only boot from external drives that are FireWire.

Using Dual Layer DVD with iDVD

I have a 2 hour movie that I have imported into iDVD. I put in a dual layer DVD-R, but iDVD insists that my two hour movie can fit on a single layer DVD-R. Yes, I'm sure it can crunch the heck out of it, but I want the quality to be high--THAT is why I BOUGHT a dual layer support drive!
Is there any way I can tell iDVD to not crunch it down to 4.5 Gigs, but to just 9 Gigs?

Hey, you used the word "experiment" twice in the same forum which gets you twenty points but you lose 10 points since it was for the same experiment.
I get twenty (40-20) just for writing this response. Points are redeemable at the nearest refrigerator for hoppy beverages providing that you speak nicely to the member of the household that stocks said items, (or you can play back audio of yourself speaking compliments, but it must be recorded in 16 bit audio, as 12 bit audio will only buy you grief).

Dual layer DVD in iDVD questions

Hi,
For now, I have a PB 12" with a single layer DVD burner. I plan to buy soon an iMac 24" which have a dual layer DVD burner.
My questions have to do with dual layer thing.
Every year I film a theater play that last for about 2h30m. So, with my single layer DVD burner, I have to split the movie in half, and burn it on 2 DVDs.
Does a dual layer DVD would permit me to burn all the theater play on one DVD-DL so that I will be able to save the burning of the second DVD?
In my actual configuration, I cannot choose in the project information a dual layer DVD to burn an image to. Is there a way of doing so, so that I'll be able to burn my theater play on my iMac later?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Steve@Mac
Does a dual layer DVD would permit me to burn all the theater play on one DVD-DL so that I will be able to save the burning of the second DVD?
Read over the following link and then post back if you still can't select Dual layer for your project. And yes you will be able to put the entire play on one DL DVD-R.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3974158#3974158
Also to create a disc image:
1. Choose File > Save As Disc Image.
2. Type a name for the disc image.
3. Choose where you want to store the disc image.
4. Click Save.
You can use Disk Utility in Mac OS X (or Roxio Toast) to burn the disc image to a DVD when you are ready. Use 4x or slower (slower is better).
Click Here
Here's some pricing info on DL Verbatim DVD-R (pretty reasonable I think).
Good luck!
SDMacuser

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Two years ago I purchased a newer Pioneer 109 Dual Layer bruner for my iMac, I installed the French patch back then, and the Dual Layer option showed up, and I burned doual layer just fine. After my reninstall of softwares I again installed the French patch, but this time, ...no Dual Layer option. Dang.
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Burning a 2h30min project without a dual layer superdrive

I have a dual layer Lacie external dual layer DVD writer, I recently purchased iLife because I was told that you can burn dual layer projects with iDVD 5.
Obviously, as I have found out, you can only do this with a dual layer internal superdrive.
I have tried the patch to make iDVD burn larger projects(from the French site Hardmac) and it didn't work for me, also tried to save as disc image but to no avail.
Is there anyway to get my project onto a dual layer DVD without shortening it, would be good if iDVD gave you the option to split the project over 2 discs.

Hello, Robert!
Have a look at this. A rep from LaCie posted to it: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b9ba73
Be sure to read all the posts for some info that should help you.
Good Luck!

Dual Layer option grayed out in iDVD '08

I have been struggling to get a movie burned for awhile, partly due to learning the software on my new iMac (2.4 GHz 24") and the other part spent learning the size requirement limits for a Dual Layer disc (not sure I have my project trimmed all the way down yet).
I finally have what I think is a finished project, am ready to try to burn it and all of a sudden iDVD will not allow me to select "Dual Layer" as an option in the Project Info dialog (the option is locked on single layer and grayed out). I tried rebooting and that made no difference. The drive is the built-in DL burner.
This is a new problem as I have been able to make this selection in the past. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
-John

Is your project over 60 mins. but under 120 mins.? You'll have to address the project info window like this:
You should have an option available to you under DVD Type to select DL as opposed to SL. If it's grayed out, quit iDvd and and relaunch the app again. You may have to do this more than once (assuming you are using the correct media and that your mac sees the appropriate DL burner).
Plus you must select the appropriate media when burning to DL. I recommend using Verbatim or Maxell while troubleshooting on this forum. Thereafter you can choose whatever works best for you and your mac.
In addition, please read the following from the iDvd08 Getting Started pfd:
Checking the Project Info Window
DVD projects can take up a lot of space on your hard disk, and it’s useful to know when
you need to make more room. In addition, a DVD disc has a maximum capacity. As
you’re working on your project, monitoring its size will ensure that everything fits.
The Project Info window, shown below, provides all this information and more.
To check the size of your project:
m Choose Project > Project Info.
Â The total size of your project, in running time (in minutes) and in size (in megabytes
or gigabytes), shows below the Capacity meter on the far right.
Â The Capacity meter shows how much of your project’s total size is used by each of its
elements. The bands of color indicate what proportion of the project each element
accounts for.
Â The numbers below DVD-ROM, Slideshows, Menus, and Movies specify how much
space (in gigabytes) each uses. When you click these numbers, the display switches
to show the number of these items in your project and how many tracks they use. An
iDVD project can have up to 99 tracks.
DVD-ROM refers to the content you’ve specified to be added to the DVD-ROM
portion of your burned DVD. The running time and size figures that appear below
Menus reflect the total duration of all the menus in the project. You can have a total
of 15 minutes of motion, such as video on buttons or in the background, in all
menus. A project can include up to 99 menus.
In general, the amount of content your iDVD project contains correlates to the quality
of your burned DVD, given the encoding setting you have chosen. The white arrow in
the Capacity meter points to the quality of your burned DVD. Quality is highest on the
green portion of the Quality meter. If you have chosen Best Performance as your
encoding setting, the entire Quality meter may be green.
Hope this helps but if not come on back.
Message was edited by: SDMacuser

IDVD 6 - Dual Layer Encoding Quality - not available

Hi, this is my weird problem:
- The movie I want to burn in iDVD 6 (latest version) is of a rather poor quality (Super 8 filmed from screen) and exported from Final Cut Pro with approx 10 GB total size(self-contained movie) and 1 hour 10 minutes length.
- In iDVD 6, I created a new project with the preferences "Double Layer DVD" and "Best Quality", in order to get for highest quality.
- iDVD 6 nevertheless compresses down to 3.8 GB, i.e. ignoring the fact that it could use the Double Layer size.
- The encoding result is really poor, as you might imagine.
- I tried it with a new project, without avail. I have a Dual Layer DVD drive (external Lacie Firewire and internal iMac drive).
What is wrong? Should I try Constant Bit Rate, i.e. "Best Performance" instead? Any help is highly appreciated!
Stefan
iMac 20' G5 2GHz rev B - Powerbook G4 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Stefan,
Going to double layer in 'Best Quality' mode won't help you one bit because 'Best Quality' will easily fit your 70 minute movie in less than 4 GB.
You might get a little better quality using the 'Best Performance' mode with a double layer disc.
The names 'Best Quality' and 'Best Performance' are very misleading and I wish Apple would change them. For example: with less than 60 minutes of content and a single layer disc, 'Best Performance' will give you better quality than 'Best Quality'.
F Shippey

Dual layer DVD will not play after iDVD burning

Hi All,
I am having some trouble making a useable DVD. I have a video that I recorded and imported into iMovie (2h33m long). I exported it to iDVD, which told me that I needed to use a dual layer DVD to make it fit. Here's where I noticed the first problem: iDVD has one option for a dual layer disc, stating that it has 7.7GB storage space, and my discs have 8.5GB. I set it to use the standard setting for the DL disc any ways, turned the quality down a bit to make it fit, and burned the DVD. After burning two discs, I still do not have one that works. It comes up as "supported disc not available" on my Mac, and as a blank disc on any other machine I put it in. It will run on my coworker's brand new iMac, but that is the only one. Am I doing something wrong? The only mistake that I have corrected since I have tried all this is changing the aspect ratio back from 4:3 to 16:9 in iMovie (I am not sure how that happened, as the video was originally recorded in 16:9). I am re-exporting the file to my desktop now in the proper ratio, and changed the quality to HD. I am waiting for the file to encode as we speak. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this work is for my local school board and is very time sensitive.
I am running a 28" iMac, 2.66GHz Intel i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive on OSX 10.6.8.

I set it to use the standard setting for the DL disc any ways, turned the quality down a bit to make it fit, and burned the DVD.
That part I don't understand.
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

IDVD will not burn dual layer disc correctly.

I have an iMac9,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz with 8 gigs of ram, with a OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S DVD-writable to -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW. It will not spit out a properly formated disc from IDVD. I get the "Supported disc not available" message, even though I have encoded it for dual layer in NTSC.
Has anyone ever experience problems with this? If so, what did you do to resolve it? I've burned through a half a dozen dual layer disc and these are still not supercheap.
TommyBoye

Yes I called and my warranty was up so the nerd on the other end tried to sell me the applecare protection program. I guess my next step is to go to an apple store, but as the person that replied last in that discussion said time is an issue. I guess my biggest problem with this whole thing is that it is obviously the update that messed up all of these superdrives, so warranty shouldn't be an issue. Apple even removed the download link: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070716082804520&query=superdrive

Has anyone installed a dual layer superdrive in early model imac g5?

I want to install a dual layer burner in my imac g5 1.8 ghz machine. Apple chat tells me that this is not possible with my machine. I would like to know if anyone has done this and did it work for them. Thanks
imac G5 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I bought a Panasonic UJ-845 DVD burner from OWC and installed it in my old iMac G5 1.8 ghz. There was a wee bit of minor work to replace it (you have to transfer the sled using a Torex wrench and have to remove and replace the plastic bezel.) Installation was simple and took only 15 min.
I ran it for a couple of days, removed it and returned it to OWC. Yes, it burned dual layer disks but was just as slooow as the original DVD drive. HORRIBLY SLOW!
I then bought an external Firewire DVD burner from OWC (Pioneer based drive). I'm very happy with the burn speeds on it for single and deal layer disks.
If you insist on an internal drive, remember the Panasonic UJ-845 drive is universal. ZipZoomFly.com has it listed at $89.99 with free shipping. (ZipZoomFly Part# 175300 ) That's $40 cheaper than the exact same drive that OWC sells.
Good luck.

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