DVD SP 3 Drop zone issues

Hello all... I just recently upgrade my PowerBook G4 to Leopard. I am using DVD Studio Pro 3 and my projects that worked in 10.4 Tiger now are working 90% of the way but my frames/dropzones (buttons) and background videos either don't play/show or they only show up for a moment when I stop it. I have tested it with a DVDSP 4 system and it works. Any suggestions?

Hi Dan
It could be soemthing simple like that your asset has a 00:00:00;00 start timecode and that is throwing things off. I have to admit I've never created subs with graphics references before - usually just do it with text.
I would have thought also that if yoiur asset is drop frame and your stl file is specified otherwise that will also cause you problems
Might be worth trying just saving a portion of the file out and change the front timecode refercne for say the first ten lines to 00 instead of 01 and see if they import
Hope this helps
Steve Kirkham

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Drop Zones have been improved in 10.0.6, so I'm sorry you are having difficulties. Motion Titles and Generators (and I'm sure Transitions) with drop zones now behave as expected -- i.e.: dragging out the effect clip will no longer change the playback speed/retiming of the drop zone media, nor will it be limited to the original length of the effect as it was before; which means, you can drop a clip and resize the template to accomodate the playing length of the clip without sacrificing the timing or a predefined "out point".
There is a recommendation for "best practices" for upgrading to 10.0.6 (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5550?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US). I think it was incomplete (at least it was in my case) because of the preferences issues that came about. You can try to delete preferences, but I ended up doing a complete "fresh" install. I followed these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5149 to remove any and all possible problem files.
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DVDSP doesn't encode progressive scan. it doesn't matter what your encode settings are. I've done extensive testing on this issue. here's what happens:
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iDVD do not copy Your material - only points to where it is stored. So if on any external hard disks, USB-memories, CDs or DVDs are missing - assetts are broken.
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http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8978/picture8vt.png
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if you click on a corner handle of the drop zone then press shift and drag the corner outwards, the drop zone will snap fit to match the format ratio of the image revealing the complete image
the reason you wont be able to move the image sideways is that there wont be any image to reveal-if the image is a different ratio to the drop zone, the image will fit inside the drop zone either by hieght or width
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Those are really good. I like the Plasma TV one and the 9-block 3D.
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I created a DVD and added images to the Drop Zones. When completed I burned the DVD. The images in the Drop Zones are grainy with horizontal lines.
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Note:
I did use the computer for other things while burning. Do you think that caused the image quality to drop? Should I not do anything while buring the DVD?
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I created a DVD and added images to the Drop Zones.
When completed I burned the DVD. The images in the
Drop Zones are grainy with horizontal lines.
The preview before the burn looked fine, really crisp
and clear.
I did use the computer for other things while
burning. Do you think that caused the image quality
to drop?
I doubt that is the source of your image quality problems. What was the size (in pixels) of the images you used?
Should I not do anything while buring the
DVD?
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com.apple.iDvd.plist
Drag and drop this file to the trash or to the desktop and relaunch iDvd.
Come on back if this fails to help. Please also let us know exactly how much available hard drive space is remaining on the boot volume (your main HDD). You may also want to repair permissions at this time from apple's disk utility.
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