IDVD '08 "OneStep" DVD, 2nd posting

Option to make multiple DVD copies: when my iDVD "onestep" video project finished multiplexing & burning successfully, I was given the opportunity to burn another DVD before quiting/closing the project. A 60 minute DVD takes another 42 minutes to make the next copy. At least you do not have to go through the entire process all over each time. The DVD (in professional quality) looks great. This is the only project in iDVD '08 that I can thank Apple for, so far. The rest has been a nightmare!

iDVD One step stores the files in temp memory / location .... so you will need to empty the trash and shut down the mac. And then power back up again. Start again and make sure you have adequate HD space.

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IDVD 6 OneStep DVD

I've connected my Mini DV camcordered with firewire cable to laptop, inserted blank DVD disk and have camcorder set to VCR, but when I click on "OneStep DVD", nothing happens. What am I doing wrong here. (new mac user)

I have yet to find any sort of solution to this very odd problem. Its the first time I've had a problem with a mac like this where there seems to be no hope of finding a real answer. Usually if Apple doesnt have something the community will show up big time. Thank goodness I have years of good times with a mac or this might really turn me off to them. Anyway just so you know the best I can find is that along the lines of what was posted here you might need a ton of space...above 35Gb just laying around for the program to even try (I've seen this on macosxhints.com). I dont know why apple doesnt put in an error message at least telling you that you are short space but thats the best I have so far.
What I do is use magic movie on imovie and then "share" it with idvd. Thats effectively what Onestep is trying to do. Good luck

IDVD 08 OneStep DVD Default Capture Folder Gone?

Was burning a dvd with OneStep - worked great, until I ran out of space on my hard drive to continue. The program stopped with the 'not enough space to complete the import' message, then froze. I forced quit, but it looks like iDVD kept all of the capture footage from the unfinished import in a secret location.
I looked in the 'Preferences' - "Advanced" tab for the OneStep capture location, and it had a strange looking file path listed: something like: /var/folder/E/+Emslkjrjslk98 (didn't write down the last part). I changed the path to my external hdd so I had space to capture, but how do I find this original default file location to delete the captured footage from before? (And no, there isn't a folder named "var" in the root of my Macintosh HD.)
Running iDVD 08, in Leopard, on a new MacBook Pro. Any help much appreciated!

iDVD One step stores the files in temp memory / location .... so you will need to empty the trash and shut down the mac. And then power back up again. Start again and make sure you have adequate HD space.

Using OneStep DVD

i just made a dvd using idvd's "OneStep DVD", it worked with no problem. the only thing is, while the movie was being extracted from my mini-dv camcorder i could see it using more space, for example (before extraction:64.46Gb-after extraction:62.26Gb. oddly enough after restarting my mac i now have 64.26Gb. is the movie that was "extracted" anywhere on my mac still? nothing in my movie folders etc... please assist, thank you.

When using OneStep, nothing is saved to your hard drive (unless something crashes )
When you quit and restart iDVD, all temporary files associated with the OneStep project are deleted.
please assist, thank you
I don't understand what the problem is.

IDvd - Onestep dvd from movie, not working?

I am trying to make a onestep dvd from movie - from an avi file... but every time I make one (I followed all the directions perfectly). It looks like it is burning and takes about 4 hrs. but nothing happens. it just says I have inserted a blank dvd. Why does this keep happening?

Hi
from an avi file
.avi is not the food for iDVD - it usually can not handle it at all.
.avi - is no codec but a container - so one must use another program to figure out what codec that's in there.
Then convert it to sometrhing iDVD can use.
My UN-Structured/sorted notes up till Yet ! (May be MANY Faulth ! be careful)
AVCHD
• need of Intel Mac and iMovie’08 or 09 or 11
• can be converted to AIC via Voltaic
Containers.
.mov.
.avi.
You can use MPEG-Streamclip to convert some of the AVI files so that QuickTime can play them
and then to streamingDV for iMovie.
True file formats (?).
.asf (from QuickTimeKirk)
Your product is based on Windows OS and the .asf files are designed for Windows Media Player.
Microsoft discontinued Mac support for Windows Media Player in 2003.
iv50 - old codec on window platform.
• Open on a PC-Window with Microsoft Movie Maker.
• Put into TimeLine
• Save on ”this Computer” as .wmv
move over to Mac and open with QuickTime Pro and save as StreamingDV
(if Flip4Mac is payed then no Waterstamp and time limit)
or
Open in FinalCut Pro as is = No Waterstamp or time limit.
Flip4Mac -- //flip4mac.com
is third party software that "plays" most WMP formats via QuickTime Player. They also sell upgrades that allow conversion from WMP to QuickTime formats.
These upgrades are supported in iMovie version 6 but not for version 7 or 8 (iLife '08 and '09).
So. What to do?
Purchase one of the Flip4Mac upgrades.
Copy the files from the SD card to your Mac and convert to QuickTime formats (DV Stream would work best).
Import the new .dv file into iMovie (any version).
.dv
streaming DV    imports directly it is the same as from miniDV (tape) Camera
.wmv
iMovie is by concept meant to work with miniDV camcorders . . any other 'imports' need a conversion or are not supported... a quick solution would be purchasing a plug-in from www.flip4mac.com, 49$, which allows the conversion of .wmv (a PC format) into something useful for iM (dv-stream) ...
or, ask the emailer to send it in some other codec .. mpg4 for example .. which will be converted by iM 'out-of-the-box' ... and, to work with iM, the video should fulfill a few standards .. 720x480 pixel resolution, 30 frames per second ... otherwise, you will experience a dramatic loss of quality ..
.mp4
container not to be mistaken for .mpeg4 which is a codec - and it’s most often could contain a H.264 encoded material (PS3 and AppleTV)
.m4v
found in iMovie project folders - imported into iDVD without any problems
.mov
found in iMovie project folders - imported into iDVD without any problems
.ram     real-movie by Real-player download
Both Real Networks (.RM, .RA, and .RAM video files) and Microsoft (.ASF, .WMA, and .WMV video files) makes it VERY difficult to import footage encoded with these formats. Especially on a Mac.
.mpg
.mpeg
.vob
.vro
.m2v
.m2a
.m2s
.mts
.m2ts
.swf files are Flash files. You need Perian
.flv Awkward timing in your choice of software as QuickTime 7.4 has dropped support (we hope it is temporary) for Flash Video formats (.swf or .flv file extensions).
MPEG-1.          VideoCD
MPEG-2.             DVD
MPEG-4.         cell-phones to satellite TV - scalable
//danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/qt_plugins/3002.shtml
Mpeg Streamclip. Supported formats.
• MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3...
MPEG Streamclip converts from mpeg-1 to whatever you like (within reason).
MPEG-2 Playback File Types.
.mpg, .mpeg, .vob(2), .vro, .m2v, .m2a, .m2s
QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component
Recording types.
DV                        standard miniDV (tape)
DV Widescreen    16 X 9 on standard miniDV (tape)
HDV 1080i            Full HD quality
HDV 720p
MPEG-4
iSight
From Mac to PC - convert to .avi or .wmv
• Transport problem and 2?Gb limit on DOS/UNIX formatted hard disks - You need a
hard disk formatted on a PC in NTFS format
FAT 16 has a 2 or 4Gb file size limit
FAT 32 should be able to handle larger ones
• Rather copy back to miniDV tape (Camera) and use this
QuickTimeKirk. You don't format the drive using a Mac.
Use the PC to format using NTFS and avoid FAT 16 or FAT 32.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
Yep. They want DV-AVI as the format. Same thing but in an AVI container.
Export from iMovie to AVI (Expert Settings) and click the "Options" button to set DV as the codec.
Yours Bengt W

IDVD Won't Record Video In OneStep DVD

I connected my Sony DV camera to my MacBook Pro using a FireWire cable, I switched the camera to VTR mode, I opened iDVD and clicked on OneStep DVD, I inserted a recordable DVD, it rewinds the tape for me and then says that it's capturing the video, the tape plays for about 3 or 4 seconds and then this message pops up:
"Nothing Captured: No video has been captured. Aborting OneStep DVD creation."
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?????

Hi
May be my list offer any help ?
*NO CAMERA or A/D-box*
Cable
• Sure that You use the FireWire - USB will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin FW one ?
• Test another FW-Cable very often the problem maker.
Camera
• Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
• Toogle in iMovie pref. Play-back via Camera (on<->off some times)
• Some Cameras has a Menu where You must select DV-out to get it to work
Does Your Camera work on another Mac ?
Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK eg recording and playback to TV)
Connections
• Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
the Movie project to dedicated external hard disk.
Mac
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
I go for a minmum of 25Gb free space for 4x3 SD Video - and my guess is 5 times more for 16x9 HD ones
after material is imported and edited.
SoftWare
• Delete iMovie pref file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into this and have a re-try.
• Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
• FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
Using WHAT versions ? .
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie 8 (7.1.?) ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
*Other ways to import Your miniDV tape*
• Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
• If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
More
• FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
• Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
• Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choise / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
mbolander
Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After uninstalling Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
*No Camera or bad import*
• USB hard disk
• Network storage
• File Vault is on
Yours Bengt W

IDVD 08 freezes while importing from camera for OneStep DVD

I am importing video from a Sony camcorder (dv) as the first step in a onestep DVD process. I have tried two different tapes and it has frozen both times - once at 14 min. and the second at 19 min. It seems to be in the middle of a scene in both cases. The camera is still running, but iDVD is no longer importing and is reported as "No Response". Have to Force Quit.
Any ideas?

I appreciate the disk space problem, as the first time I tried to capture, it ran out of space on my internal drive. That's when I moved the capture to the firewire drive.
So I checked the internal drive - 13.6GB available before capture. In addition, I monitored it throughout the capture process (using the application "What Size", which tells you how big all your files are) and found it stayed stable throughout the capture sequence.
Meanwhile, the firewire drive showed the captured file to be growing as it captured more video. I've tried to capture this particular tape twice, and I see that it froze with the captured file size at EXACTLY the same size: 4,294,934,528 bytes. This is about 19 min, 53 sec. of video.
I wonder if a) it only really works capturing to the internal drive, or b) if something got messed up when I ran out of space the first time. I think it did capture all or most of the tape when I ran it the first time on the internal drive.
I guess I could clear more space on the internal drive and give that a go again. Ideas?
Doug

IDVD - OneStep DVD

Unable to capture from OneStep. Have followed all the steps...doesn't seem to be reading the camera (Z1U).
"To use OneStep DVD, connect your digital video camera to your computer using a FireWire cable. Then turn on your camera and make sure it's in VCR mode.
Click OK and insert a blank disc. OneStep DVD rewinds the tape, imports your video, and burns it to a DVD."
COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP HERE.
Also, is it possible to do a time code burn in OneStep?

Unable to capture from OneStep. Have followed all the steps...doesn't seem to be reading the camera (Z1U).
"To use OneStep DVD, connect your digital video camera to your computer using a FireWire cable. Then turn on your camera and make sure it's in VCR mode.
Click OK and insert a blank disc. OneStep DVD rewinds the tape, imports your video, and burns it to a DVD."
COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP HERE.
Also, is it possible to do a time code burn in OneStep?

Onestep dvd help - only copying one section

I've successfully used onestep idvd to burn a disc from our camcorder. I put the 2nd dv tape in the camcorder, brought up onestep and first it gave me an error message (sorry, can't remember it) and then said it was aborting the process. Tried it again and it only copied the 1st section of my video, it stopped copying at the point where i turned the camera off and then back on again at a later time...the point where the blue screen comes up between footage. How do i tell onestep dvd to copy all the dv tape?
Thanks

it stopped copying at the point where i turned the camera off and then back on again at a later time...the point where the blue screen comes up between footage. How do i tell onestep dvd to copy all the dv tape?
OneStep is looking for breaks to stop copying, and your break is too big. No way I know of to get OneStep to "skip" the timecode break. I suggest you import into iMovie, and then use OneStep like this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/424.html
or just use iMovie>iDVD normally........

Aperture 3 slideshow to iDVD to blank DVD: export commands seem contradictory

This problem is actually related to Aperture v3.3.2 and iDVD v7.1.2 and my previous attempt (11/14/2014) to create a preliminary slideshow (with captions and music track) on Aperture that when completed can be exported to iDVD and then in its final form to a blank DVD. Now I’m trying to use tutorials. The problem is when I pull up iDVD webpage, the pop-up tutorial window is unpredictable. The four project buttons (“Create a New Project”, “Open an Existing Project”, “Magic iDVD”, “OneStep DVD”) are okay, opening to the expected start window. But the long button named “Video Tutorials” is inert and doesn’t do anything except to open to a standard “Apple – Mac: iMac” sales window. Has Apple decommissioned that button because of changed iDVD status? I think I need those tutorials to finish my iDVD project. Otherwise, I’ll have to use my 2009 “iMovie ’09 & iDVD Portable Genius” manual, which is okay, but I want to at least try the tutorial route before I exhaust all options.
Two members of the Aperture help community have already been kind enough to offer helpful suggestions to my earlier posting on the problem, but iDVD doesn’t seem to be intuitive enough to benefit from work-arounds. The “Getting Started” PDF off the iDVD Help pull-down seems promising (35 pages), but the “Video Tutorials” is useless. It opens to a standard “Apple – Mac: OS X Yosemite” sales window.
I understand that Apple hasn’t supported iDVD for quite awhile, but any help will be greatly appreciated. A.Z.

I don't use Aperture so don't know if it can export a slideshow as iPhoto does. But if it can here's how it's done with iPhoto:
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p as the size.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

OneStep DVD from movie file

The OneStep DVD from Movie file works fine for my 4:3 movies -- but I can't seem to figure out how to get my 16:9 movies to come out letterboxed when viewed on a standard screen. Is there some setting I can change to give me the results I need? I don't want or need anything more than a simple video that loops -- no theme, menu, etc -- so I haven't wanted to create a 'project'.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I found the solution to my problem of burning a letterboxed SD 16:9 movie with iDVD on another forum and it worked like a charm! Details below:
Name: Christopher S. Johnson
Date: Nov 18, 2006 at 8:26:34 pm
Subject: Re: 16:9 and idvd 6
I'm not sure why but iDVD doesnt see the anamorphic flag on SD anamorphic QT movies. It WILL behave properly for HD QT files though.
This is the "Christopher S. Johnsnon" work around:
Open your anamorphic SD QT movie in QT player Pro.
Press Command-J
Highlight the Video settings in the list
Select Visual Settings in the tabs
UN-check Preserve Aspect Ratio
Change the width from 720 to 854
Hit Return and
Save the movie
Now bring it back into iDVD and you are good to go!!!
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"Nothing Captured--Aborting OneStep DVD Creation"

I'm trying to use iDVD 6's OneStep DVD to convert Digital 8 tapes from a Sony camcorder directly to DVD. Sometimes this works flawlessly and other times I get the message that nothing was captured on the tape (although the tapes work fine) and that the process has been aborted. I can't understand the randomness of this error. Thanks for your help. mark

Digital 8 tapes
Are you 100% sure that all the tapes are Digital 8 (DV)? Your camcorder will read Hi8 and 8mm analog tapes, and even convert them to "DV" for import into iMovie, but iDVD OneStep won't read in tapes being converted on the fly.
The other possibility is large breaks in the timecode.
Finally, I'm not a OneStep fan. Try iMovie's MagicMovie and then iDVDs Magic DVD for a two step process. At least if you have problems, you know where to start to find answers....
John B.

Using OneStep DVD with a HDD Camera

I am a relatively new mac user (4 months) but i've navigated my way around pretty well and have used all the ilife software as well as final cut express and some other things with much delight. But I have a wife and have a 1 year old baby. The wife is intelligent but would rather not spend time editing video etc.. but would rather take our files directly off the camera and burn them to dvd.. So i noticed the onestep dvd process which would be perfect if we had a firewire type camera.. But we don't. We also don't have firewire on our new macbook. Hence the reason we bought a HDD camera that does AVCHD. Just wondering if anyone knows if iDVD could use a HDD camera with a quick process such as OneStep DVD.
thanks
Steve

Too late to edit my reply so I'll add this here .....
The only way I can think of to accomplish your wife's objective is with a FW minidv camcorder (example pictured below) and a Dvd Recorder with a FW input like this one (Daewoo DVR07):
Click Here
The advantage in this is that all is done in real time (as opposed to waiting for iDvd to capture and encode a one step dvd) and includes a basic menu and interval chapters if you wish (not to mention the ability to record in sessions as opposed to write at once only thru iDvd).
Btw ... iDvd's One Step can actually take longer than using the traditional approach of iMovie => iDvd (just so you are aware).
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.

Onestep dvd

When uploading from a camera to onestep dvd, it stops recording and finishes the dvd if there is a blank spot in the tape. Any thoughts?

This is the imovie forum, you will likely get better and quicker answers over in the iDVD forums.

Onestep DVD in folders, not file

Thanks in advance for any help. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my movies from Final Cut Express or iMovie into a format that is decoded accurately on a Windows machine. I read that iDVD automatically converts to an mpeg-2, so I used Onestep DVD to create a DVD that showed great on my Windows computer. However, what I thought would be a single file like (movie.mpg) is rather a video and an audio folder; and since I need to copy this into another program that runs at my kiosk, is impossible to use. Is there anyway I can get this same quality into a single file? Neither Final Cut Express nor iMovie allow you to create mpeg-2's, and I've tried every other format to no avail. Thanks again. Also, if I need to go to another forum, please let me know.

I contacted Apple Care today, and there was a resolution for this in iMovie, though not in iDVD. Basically, there is a way to convert an iMovie project to an H.263 file. If you are interested in how to do this, please follow my thread under Final Cut Express, topic "Convert to mpeg-2" http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8164350#8164350

IDVD '08 "OneStep" DVD, 2nd posting

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