Dvd burn stops idvd crashes

Have been having problem when burning dvd, burns so far than quits & notice idvd crash
do not understand what the message means is happening with every dvd burn attempt
Also need to know how to send idvd project to trash / delete when done with it

I had the same problem until I realized I was editing in HD after years of editing Standard DVD video. My hard drive was formated for 32bit and can only record up to 4 GB per file. I had to take one of my hard drives and reformat it to the journal setting so there are no blocks which leaves the entire hard drive of a 2TB unit to record those unbeleavable HD movies. The mov I was trying to take to IDVD was 26GB and it recoreded all the way this time. I DVD will automatically dreduce it to fit on a standard DVD.
Whats rediculous is that every one records in HD now because they can but give little thought as to how its going to be edited. Standard DVD looks great when played on a blue ray and no professionals dont want to pay the extra fee to edit and take it to blue ray as many people dont have Blue ray yet.
Other problems can also stop your recording like a bad still photo file or one that is still in a raw state and not formated.
Hope this helps.

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I created a 3 hour iDVD file on a dual 2.0 G5 desktop with a dual layer DVD Superdrive. I have since migrated to a MacBook Pro. Now, when I open the iDVD file, it says there is no DL Superdrive on my system and that it will convert the file to single layer or something like that, with the option to cancel or proceed. If I purchase an external DL DVD burner will iDVD detect it and allow me to continue working with the file?? Or do I have to get a whole other Mac with a DL Superdrive (iMac or 17" MBP)?? The error specifically stated 'Superdrive', so I am not sure if just an external DL will work. Thanks for any help.

Sorry to have to post this here, but your topic "How can I see the bitrate while playing a DVD?" in the DVD SP forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=325516
has been archived and no one can reply to it.
Thank you so much. Using VLC 0.8.5 to view bitrate was an excellent discovery for those who don't have the cash to buy the DigiGami poducts.
Perhaps you should re-open a new topic for others to respond to.

DVD burned on iDVD stutters on DVD player. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi there, i'm new to burning DVD's and using this Apple Disscusion, so please bare with me!
So, I tried to use iDVD to burn a home movie onto my disk which is:
Aone
8X
DVD-R
120 Minutes
4.7GB
Everything seemed to burn fine onto my disk and played back perfectly on my Macbook, however when I put the disk into my Samsung DVD player, the movie is unwatchable. The audio and video stutters, pauses, skips; even on the menu screen and then at about 3:50, the movie flicks back to the start.
I don't think it is the DVD player or the disk as it plays other DVD's perfectly, even one from a friend with home movies on using the exactly the same disk.
Therefore I was wondering if is iDVD doing this? If so, is there any way of solving this problem? I am currently burning at a speed of 8X, does this need to be different? Also in Project Info, the encoding is set to professional quality. Other options in Project Info include:
Video Mode - PAL
Aspect Ratio - Widescreen (16:9)
DVD Type - Single-Layer (SL) - 4.2 GB
I hope I have given all the information needed,
Any help would be greatly appricated!
Thankyou!

If You keep frame rate from start to end. Then my next thought is about material used. That this might create a problem for iDVD and resulting DVD-disk.
My collection of thoughts (mine and others)
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
Yours Bengt W

Dvd burning from idvd with strange results

I have made a short 5 minute movie in FCP and exported it to QuickTime as I have done numerous times before. I created a menu in IDVD and then dragged QT file in. Everything looks great and plays on screen great. Then I burn the DVD. Once done I put it on TV via a different DVD player and it plays however about a minute into the video on the top of the screen I see part of another image. It almost looks like part of my G4 background screen (which is a picture) has somehow leaked through and gotten burned onto this dvd. Anyhow, I thought it was a bad DVD so burned another (TDK 8x DVD-r). Same thing happened again. Even when I put this burned DVD on my G-4 and play it I still have weird image. I went back and checked the movie again in FCP and then re-exported to QT as a self contained movie and did the whole IDVD thing all over again. Still has the weird image leaking through. By the way, before burning I did play the QT file through QT and that plays perfect! It also plays perfect through FCP. I am concerned it could be my drive. Any suggestions or hints.

Well I discovered the problem previously posted by me concerning dvd burning with strange results. I found the exact spot in the burned dvd where the video had the other image appear along the top and then went to FCP and found the exact spot on it. Lo and behold on FCP at that exact spot in the video a "marker" had been inserted. I cleared all markers and re-exported and burned again in idvd and everything works perfectly. So apparently the marker insert in FCP caused all the problems.

External dvd burner stopped working

Hi, have an older imac -installed tiger os a while back worked fine- bought a LaCie external cd/dvd burner worked fine until this am 12/29 when THE COMPUTER TURNED ITSELF OFF!! (no human intervention, no power outage) restarted computer which functioned fine- hooked up LaCie and imac would not recognize burner(couldn't bring it down on menu)very bizarre Hope this makes sense to someone Thanks

If possible, try to use the drive on another computer, just to make sure it is still working ok. Even a PC is good for testing, since you just want to make sure it is ok.
Try resetting the PRAM, by restarting the Mac and immediately holding down the CMD, Option, P and R keys simultaneously (CMD is the cloverleaf/apple key) before the "bong" sound. Keep them down for at least three "bong"s, then let the system finish starting up. Plug the drive, pop a prerecorded CD/DVD and see if it mounts. You can use Disk Utility to check if the system "sees" the unit, or you can also run System Profiler for that purpose.

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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00033108
You may want to try the following methods to fix first:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us
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DVD burned from iDVD skips on TV not computer

Help! I create a graduation DVD every year for the 8th grade at my daughters' school. It is created in iMovie and is made of pictures and music - basically a slideshow. After I create it in iMovie, I pull it into Garage Band to chapter it, then send it to iDVD from there. Basically I have been getting calls from parents that when they try to view the slideshow it skips terribly on a television. However, if they put it in their computer it views just fine. Can anyone tell me how to correct this problem? I will soon have 40 parents calling me for new DVDs!!!!
Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me with this problem!!! It is truly appreciated.
Lisa
PS The music teacher informed me that previous video projects I created for her before April viewed just fine on a television. It was with the April 19th Musical that started to have problems and only could be viewed on a computer.

Just to add to the good advice already posted above; might also what to consider two more items. The first being that your mac is not built for burning back to back dvd's. You can burn one fine, maybe even two but thereafter you must allow the lens to cool prior to burning subsequent dvd's or you will experience exactly what you pointed out above. Namely, much higher error rates when burning additional dvd's causing them to skip, distort, or stop altogether.
Secondly, consider making a disc image to the desktop and burn from that image only to Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, or Maxell Dvd-R at no higher than 4x. Use Minus media if the distortions are solely visible on set top dvd players or TV's (as opposed to your mac or pc). Minus media will give you better results over plus media toward your objective of universal playback.
Hope this is helpful but if not just come on back.

DVD burn stops at 66%.

I have been able to burn DVD's for a while now but all of a sudden on one project it began stopping at 66%. Now I can't get any of my project to get past 66%. I have tried to paste it into a new project. I have tried adding a still to the menu.

I had the same problem until I realized I was editing in HD after years of editing Standard DVD video. My hard drive was formated for 32bit and can only record up to 4 GB per file. I had to take one of my hard drives and reformat it to the journal setting so there are no blocks which leaves the entire hard drive of a 2TB unit to record those unbeleavable HD movies. The mov I was trying to take to IDVD was 26GB and it recoreded all the way this time. I DVD will automatically dreduce it to fit on a standard DVD.
Whats rediculous is that every one records in HD now because they can but give little thought as to how its going to be edited. Standard DVD looks great when played on a blue ray and no professionals dont want to pay the extra fee to edit and take it to blue ray as many people dont have Blue ray yet.
Other problems can also stop your recording like a bad still photo file or one that is still in a raw state and not formated.
Hope this helps.

Losing Audio in DVDs burned from iDVD 6.0.2

I'm trying to convert several Hi8 videotapes to DVD, and have successfully imported & edited footage in iMovie: audio tracks appear & play fine. When moved into iDVD, the audio works find in preview also. However, when I burn the DVD, I get either complete loss of audio or partial loss of audio (oddly, the first 2 clips retain audio, rest of audio is lost). I've tried burning as Disk Image, tried playback on several DVD players, all to no avail.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Apple please note: As a loyal Mac user since 1986, I have found iDVD to be the most frustrating and user-unfriendly piece of Apple software I have yet encountered. Various iDVD glitches have resulted in my wasting at least 20 DVD blanks so far, and the process is far from transparent.

Slewis,
Welcome to the iDVD forum.
Various iDVD glitches have resulted in my wasting at least 20 DVD blanks so far, and the process is far from transparent.
Stop burning DVDs until you get this worked out. Try Using "Save as Disk Image" instead. I know you said you've tried this, but keep trying until the images play fine on your mac before burning.
Also read this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303550
I know you have 6.0.2, but follow these steps anyway.
You should also check the audio to make sure it is 16 bit.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636
You might also want to go back to iMovie and use the "extract audio" command. This often helps.
John B.

DVD Burned from iDVD 6.0.1 plays on iMac but not a DVD player?

After burning a DVD production on DVD-RW and DVD+RW CDs and both directly from iDVD and by first creating a disc image. In all cases they worked on my iMac but none of them worked on the DVD player. Only the DVD+RW is compatible with the player and it appears the DVD starts to load but can not finish the process. Is there something I missed or is there a bug in iDVD 6.0.1?
The iDVD production was made from scratch using Magic iDVD and some video files. The Map has no errors and there where no error messages.

Is there something I missed or is there a bug in iDVD 6.0.1?
The bug is probably the format you're burning to...
Use DVD-R. I'd recommend Verbatim DVD-R burned at 4x or slower. I'll bet that will play just fine...as long as the DVD player is relatively new (2-3 years old).

Size of all clips in iMovie that will fit on one dvd burned by iDVD

I have a lot of iMovie clips that I'm putting into one iMovie project. I know that at some point, the clips will not fit on one dvd, and that I'll have to split it up into different iDVD burns. Is there a way to know the maximum number of iMovie clips (size in MB, I presume) that, after being sent to iDVD, will (just) fit on one dvd? Trial and error is removing a clip, saving the iMovie project, sharing to iDVD, trying to burn, being told there is not enough space, then starting over with removing another clip - that is taking too long.

Hi
on SL-single layer DVDs - about four hours on DL if Your Mac can burn them
To get even more - Roxio Toast™ - can squees in may be up to ten hours
BUT - TO a quality near not usably. Quality invers to amount of material.
also encoding method is limiting
iDVD 08 & 09 has three levels of qualities.
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Yours Bengt W

DVD burned using iDVD 06 pulses light on computer LCD

Aspect ration (16/9) is perfect but the light pulses every half second or so. The same burned DVD plays perfectly on a separate DVD player (with the correct mode setting). Why can't my comuter play this burned DVD?
The QT mov file plays on my computer without the pulsing light. Just the burned DVD has this problem.

....or is there a better application to produce decent DVD of photo slideshows?
Yes. It's called DVDSP (apple's top of the line DVD Authoring application). It has a much longer learning curve than iDvd and is more $$$ but it does work well. The Help Menu alone is over 640 pages long. However, is this app significantly better than iDvd solely in terms of visual quality?.... No.
But it does offer many more tools to address visual artifacts on the finished DVD, more audio control, much better control of durations per slide, audio, buttons that work as expected, among other things. (for additional examples of this see chapter 12 of the DVDSP Help Menu / starting on p. 373).
Short of DVDSP, and much less money, you can also try these 2 third party apps which come highly recommended on this iDvd Forum:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
At the moment most macs do not yet support burning to Blueray (which does offer much better results). Once this technology is more commonplace, then I believe we will see a significant improvement in what you are trying to do above.
Hope this is helpful but if not just come on back.
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DVDs burned in iDvd work in other devices, but not on my Mac!

Strange. I switched to iDvd 6. Now I am having troubles I never had before (and it isn't due to bad disks -- I use the same ones burned successfully with iDvd 5).
Burning to disk produces a "NDIF disk image" -- not what I would have expected. The burned disks work in my DVD player for the TV, and even work in a PC! But they aren't able to be read by my Mac! I get a "this disk is in a format your Mac doesn't recognize" type of error. Or if the disk goes in, it doesn't show up on the desktop.
I have tried just about everything. Burning directly to disk produces the same effect.
As a note, the Disk Utility recognizes there is a disk there!
Any suggestions? I'd really like burn DVDs that are readable on my Mac again (as well as everything else).

Does anyone have an answer to this individual's problem?
I have been successfully using iDVD burning disk images and direct to DVD disc with not a single issue.
To conserve my main hard drive space I kept my iDVD templates on one of my other hard drives. Recently I was spring cleaning and inadvertently relocated the iDVD template library. Upon recently launching I realised this and reinstalled the templates.
So when I go to work I have every detail set up as usual and instruct iDVD to burn a disk image of the file so it's ready to burn to disk upon my return home from work. I have no idea why iDVD is now burning NDIF images. I have used Disk Utility to burn the image to a DVD and all seems to work fine, despite the seemingly slow verification process. After which "Your Disk has been burned Successfully."
Question:
Why is it that my Intel Mini is capable of recognizing and playing my newly burned DVD from this strange and suddenly appearing NDIF image, while my PowerMac G4 Dual 867 which I have used to burn and play burned disks for a few years now, not recognize or play a burned DVD disk?

Dual Layer DVD burn question, iDVD 6 or later.

I have a movie that is over 7.7 gigs. My iDVD 6 only allows for 7.7g, dual layer? It says I've gone over the content length? If I have a 8.5g DVD, can't I put more than 7.7g on it?
As it is it will only let me burn about 230 minutes or less, 7.7g I assume.
Do I need a later version to fill my 8.5g dual layer DVD?
thank you,
paul

Karsten
launch Terminal, and type (or copy/paste form here):
defaults write com.apple.iDVD SupportDualLayerProjects -bool true
I'm impressed! .... J/C Where did you find this little trick?
(I know, you can tell me but then you'd kill me ...... right?

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