Flash frame at beginning of movie

When I preview my DVD before burning, there is a white flash immediately before the start of the movie.
This happens whether or not I use a transition from menu to movie, or a transition in iMovie.
For example, if there is a fade in at the top of my movie, and I put a "fade thru black" transition on the DVD menu, the result is a nice fade to black, a white flash, then the fade in on my movie.
Also tried exporting the movie as DV first then importing into iDVD. Same problem.

It's probably a single white frame left over from some editing or other.
Click on the clip that starts with it and use your keyboard arrow keys to advance one single frame at a time. When you have found it, delete it!

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Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Carrie

This problem is fairly common. The easy solution that usually
works is
to set it up so that when the QT sprite 1st appears, have it
off the
stage for 1 frame. Then, move it into place. The flash will
now happen
when it can not be seen, and the video will appear to start
at the
beginning, since the viewer will only have missed the 1st
1/15th of a
second or so.

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I have a Mac G5 with FCP HD 5.0.4. It came with iDVD 4.0.1. I wonder if you can help me with my problem.
When I create an iDVD project, I get a brief freeze, then a white flash frame at the start of every chapter (scene selection). Same for "play movie" (the automatic chapter 1).
I found advice online pertaining to the same problem with iMovie and iDVD - so I thought I would give it a shot with FCP. I export my FCP sequence (best quality QT movie) without chapter markers. Then I import the single file into a new FCP project, add chapter markers and export it again - to drop into my iDVD project. But no change. Still the white flash frames.
I have iMovie 4.0.1 - but it only does short movies. My project is about 60 minutes.
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Hi Sue,
Thanks for this.
Two problems. First, I don't have iMovie HD - I have iMovie 4.0.1.
I tried your idea (with a short clip). I exported QT movie from FCP HD (best quality, no chapters) into iMovie. Then I exported the no chapter QT movie iMovie to desktop. Then I imported the QT movie to an iMovie new project, added chapters and created an iDVD project from iMovie.
Same problem. I never get to the burning stage. The "freeze then flash frame" problem at the beginning of all chapters is in the preview.
My iMovie 4.0.1 doesn't accept my 60m film (too long) - so I'll need another solution anyway.
I tried reinstalling iDVD 4.0.1 - but still the same problem.
At this point I'm willing to upgrade to something else. Sounds like I'm better off with iDVD vs DVD Studio Pro, given my current knowledge. I shouldn't need iMovie HD, if I have FCP HD already?
By the way, the QT movie export of my project plays fine with QT player.
Thanks so much,
Mikado1

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Handbrake is the wrong tool for this...MPEG STREAMCLIP or DVDxDV Pro are the better options. I use DVDxDV...REALLY good with non-Hollywood movie type DVDs. Can extract to DV or Uncompressed...whatever you need. MPEG-4 like H.264 isn't meant to be used as an editing codec, it is designed for final delivery. That might be why you are getting the odd flash frames...the way it is compressed.
As for ProRes brightening...that means that your system needs to reduce the quality of the image in order to play it back without dropping frames...that is one symptom. Another is really low quality playback. To see what you really working with it is good to have a capture card and external monitor connected so you can tell what things really look like...as the computer monitors are playing back a low res proxie.
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As instructed in this thread, I've started a new thread regarding this problem.
I work as an editor at a channel with Premiere CC 7.2.1 installed as our NLE. We have several 27" iMacs, 21" iMacs and about a dozen MacbookPro's.
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Red frames have also been introduced on MXF exports from iMac's (i7 27"), via ethernet to an Isilon.
I've taken the advice on the previous thread and told an editor to delete her cache and re-export. She did this and the red frames were not on the new export.
However, we have a high turnaround of news and current affairs content where a red frame may not be spotted. This could happen in a SOT or PKG for news. This file with the red frame could be loaded into ENPS and played out live. As the producer will be viewing the proxy in Sienna, they will not see the red frame as it'll only be on the ProRes, which is in a TX server they do not have access too.
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I'm using a bunch of crossdissolve transitions between still pictures and it was going fine until suddenly when I added the crossdissolve transition now there's a flash frame within it. It didn't use to happen in when I added the transitions because the earlier one's in my film are all fine but suddenly now there's this glitch.
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This has been a reported problem.....and I noted in pretty much only with cross-dissolve, and only some of them. You need to delete the problem transition, and then look at the preceding clip frame by frame, starting from its end. (Just for anyone who might not know, frame by frame advance and reverse is done with the arrow keys).You will probably see a single white frame. Isolate it by Command-T on either side of it and then delete it. Reinsert your transition and the white flash should be gone. Sometimes, the white frame will be found on the clip after the transition, and to find that one, start at the beginning of the clip and advance frame by frame until you locate it.
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/3477422#793232
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/791816?tstart=0
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