IDVD 6 Preview problems

I am having problems with the preview mode of iDVD6. I have my project all set and when I go to preview and try to preview the contents the video freezes, but the audio seems to play okay. What's up?

I am importing 16 bit video from a Canon ZR40 into iMovie HD 6 and then editing and then Sharing with Idvd 6. I have worked with iLife before. This is the first time I have used version 6.
Here's the scene. I got my movie edited and chapters added in iMovie and then sent to iDVD. I used a widescreen menu and could not get preview to work properly so figured there was a bug with Widescren mode since I had seen some problems on the forum pages. So I scraped that iDVD project and rebuilt it in Standard and the preview mode worked fine. I had too much video so I scaped the iDVD project again and went back to iMovie and edited it down some more then sent rebuilt my iDVD project. Preview has not worked properly since. I thought since the encoding was not done it could be causing a processor jam so I waited till the encoding was finished, but it still doesn't work properly in Preview.
Any ideas?

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IDVD Preview problem

I am trying to create an iDVD project using 6.0 Themes. I have imported the media into the project and can see the video playing in the preview menu but when I click on the video to view it the iDVD preview it is blank. When I try to create a DVD (burn it) the program hangs and I have to use force quit. The media I am using is an .avi with XVID compression. I downloaded the Xvid codec and placed it in the library/quicktime folder so that the media is viewable with quicktime. Is there another location that I am supposed to place the Xvid codec to make the media viewable with iDVD preview? Any other suggestions? Thanks!

+But why would they work on one computer and not the other.+
Same OS on both?
AVIs can contain all sorts of stuff...

Interlacing problems with iDVD Preview and burning - comb effect appalling.

When using iDVD to burn content onto DVDs, I suffer from "comb effect" interlacing related problems both in the iDVD Preview and with the final product played on a computer. I have yet to play the disc in a "real" DVD player.
I am editing HDV (60i) footage with FCE 4, exporting (both interlaced and de-interlaced - same problem) to 1920x1080 HD at a Quicktime movie, and then importing the clips to iDVD.
The clips are short (under 10 minutes) and play back perfectly on Quicktime.
Once imported to iDVD, the iDVD Preview displays (especially with motion scenes) four areas of horizontal jagged edge areas, which are spectacularly distracting.
Here is an example:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u4/praxisuniversal/InterlacingProblem.jpg
I have tried various settings using iDVD, but have not been met with success. In other, similar discussions, people have had luck with other software programs, but I am reluctant to spend great gobs of money if the Apple Discussion Brain Trust can find a way to circumvent.
Thanks!

Check out the JES Deinterlacer website and see if it helps. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html

Audio breaks up in iDVD preview/will not encode in burn

One of the folks in the iDVD group suggested I try here....This is the first iDVD5 project I'm trying to burn (of the first movie I've done in iMovieHD). All is well until I preview in iDVD then the audio/music track make a similar sort of broken up sound to what you would get if playing a CD on a portable player with your battery about to die. I used 2 songs - one purchased from iTunes store, one taken from a purchased CD. Both songs are a mess. Thought the problem might be in previewing iDVD project so went ahead and tried to burn a DVD. It couldn't encode the audio. Could the iTunes song be the culprit? Has anyone else experienced this broken audio and were you able to fix it? Thanks for any help you can offer.

I had similar experiences and discovered a couple things. They may sound crazy, but they worked for me:
Which of the two timelines are you using for your audio tracks in iMovie? I once used the bottom one only, and had errors with audio encoding every time. I moved the songs to the upper audio timeline and voila! It encoded and burned perfectly. Go figure!
I also fiddled around with "Best Quality" and "Best Performance" in iDVD. When I select "Best Quality" with a short movie, I get audio encoding errors every time. If I select "Best Performance" it encodes and burns perfect.
I'm not sure why either of these two things should matter, but for me they cause audio breakup in iDVD preview and then audio encoding errors...even though they play fine in iMovie and even exporting to QT as you also have...maybe one of these is causing your problem as well. Good luck!

My 16:9 project looks like 4:3 in the iDVD preview

Aspect Ratio is definitely set to widescreen 16:9 in Project Info, but it doesnt seem to affect the dimensions of the actual film when i double click to preview it. What it seems to change when i toggle back and forth between 4:3 and 16:9 is how the the theme graphics for the menu fit into the preview box. The thumbnail of the film looks letter box, but as soon as I double click to play it, it goes to 4:3. Can I expect it to burn to disc looking 4:3 if that is the way it looks in the preview, or is that just a quirk of iDVD preview?
Also: I've been having terrible problems tonight with the preview film flickering bright orange. Even though i know nothing at all is wrong with the .mov file that I imported. I thought I resolved it by switching themes, but now it's coming back. I've also noticed the orange flickering coming up when i have alot of things open and have been running the computer for a while, it will happen when i try to do some other task on the computer while i am previewing. Anyone else have such problems with iDVD?
Thank you to anyone who can help.
Paul

I think the fundamental problem is that unfortunately, I did all of the work to put my film together on a sequence that had the wrong settings-- SD settings (Frame size 720x480), when in fact I needed to use HD settings to match what I actually shot in (1440x1080). I finally have overcome the problem by exporting the sequence using Quicktime conversion and customizing the settings for my HD clip properties. This is giving me a 16:9 in iDVD preview.
My concern is that my project now is based on a timeline that was created in a sequence with SD settings and that maybe I have lost some resolution quality. I am sitting here looking at the iDVD preview and I am not always sure it looks as sharp as the same clip viewed in FCE dropped in a sequence with the right settings. But maybe iDVD preview isn't as sharp, or maybe it's just my imagination. Any thoughts?
Ideally, what I would like to do is to copy my timeline out of the first sequence with the wrong settings, and to copy it into a new sequence with the proper settings. But I am wondering if that timeline is now "infected" with the wrong settings, and brings these over to the new sequence. The guy on the Apple help line told me this was unfortunately the case. Am I really going to have to completely do this work over again to get a completely correct workflow?
Any way around this?

Avi movies don't play in iDVD preview

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I have a problem with avi files playing in iDVD preview. I am using an iMac 2.16 OS 10.5 I created a new project in iDVD '08 and placed a avi movie in my project. When I press play to preview it woun't play. At work I have a mac pro OS 10.4 and I am using the same avi movies in iDVD '08 when I press play the movie does play. I burned it to a DVD and it played on my DVD player with no problems. Does anyone know why I'm having problems when I work from my iMac at home?

+But why would they work on one computer and not the other.+
Same OS on both?
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IDVD 08 - problem with scene selection tabs not working after "burn"

I have a movie that is about an hour long (made in iMovie08 using mostly still photos). I wanted to have "chapters" -- but with that option gone, I used the Scene Selection option in iDVD08. This created menus with 15 scene selection buttons (I chose every 4 minutes). The menus were automatically created by iDVD and I did nothing to change them, except to type in scene info (two-three words).
The buttons all worked fine on the computer, and I burned a DVD. The DVD worked great in my VCR player. I'd select Play Movie and it would go. I'd select Scene Selection and I'd get the menus for that. But when I'd highlight one of the scene selections and "enter" (select) -- it wouldn't go to that scene. I could go back and forth between menus, and could move around and highlight the scene buttons, but selecting would not start the scene to play. The movie played fine from start to finish, and the other remote features worked (stop, pause, menu, etc.).
I went back to iDVD and chose a different theme (thinking maybe I'd inadvertently done something to mess things up. The only thing I did differently in addition to the new theme, was to add two small movie clips - and I rearranged the buttons on the menu (dragging) to get them positioned where I wanted them. So my first menu says "Play Movie". The second menu has: Play Movie, Scene Selections, Little Movie 1, Little Movie 2. Everything worked greated in iDVD. Then I created a disk image to view using DVD Player (rather than waste another DVD). Same problem -- only worse. This time I couldn't even highlight Scene Selection to get to the scenes' menus.
Any thoughts on why I'm not able to get the "Scene Selection" buttons to work after a burn? Am I missing a step somewhere in iDVD?
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I am not sure, but does your post concerning the problem, that all Remote Control function will work properly within iDVD'08 but after burning the DVD absolutely not with the RC of your set top DVD player connected to your TV?
If this is it:
Meanwhile I could figure out - after many nights of not been very productive and only working out on all the iDVD'08 problems - that **ALL** of the *7.0 Themes* have a major problem in generally.
The following points are concerning iDVD'08 using any of the 7.0 Themes:
- Complete deep freeze of your Mac under Leopard when rendering/coding/burning a movie which has chapters and you use movies instead of still images in drop zones. (LeopardiDVD087.0Themes)
- Functions on remote control of your set top DVD player are not working correctly when making a movie with chapters. This is generally on Tiger and Leopard the same problem using iDVD08 with any of the 7.0 Themes.
Quick and dirty workaround:
You may avoid this if you simply use a 6.0 Theme or lower version of the Themes.
But this is of course not the clue...
It is VERY DISAPPOINTING, having software at such a low quality level deliverd by Apple. And somehow it looks like they DO NOTHING against it. No statement, no excuse, they really remain silent.
This may also be a thread you could be interested in:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1203323
Cheers,
Roland

IDVD burn problem

when i burn my dvd from idvd everything comes out fine, except in one spot the audio drops for a split second. i have deleted the project, reimported my imovie project back in and its the same. the idvd preview plays fine at the same spot where it drops when burned. i have even created a quicktime file and it plays fine as well. very confused and need help soon. i have a movie project that is due in a few days. any help and advice would be appreciated.
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There can be so many things
• Brand of DVD - I only use Verbatim
• Type of DVD - I only use DVD-R
• Burn Speed - I set down to x4 (or x1) - IMPORTANT
• Free space on Start-Up hard disk - I set a minimum of 25GB free (Important)
• Use of audio from iTunes or .mp3 (Convert out as .aiff 48kHz 16-bit or Audio-CD)
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RAM Preview Problems in After Effects CC

AE CS 6 RAM Previews work, but two problems to report with AE CC on the same computer. Possibly two faces of the same problem.
1. Having QuickTime Player open while doing a RAM preview makes the RAM preview stutter. I quit the player, and now the RAM preview plays back without dropping a frame, though Info palate shows "fps: 24 (realtime)", but the RAM preview playback is slow: ie, a tenor sounds like a baritone.
2. A RAM preview that looked and sounded fine last night, is now playing back slowly (tenor sounds like a baritone), though Info Palate shows "fps: 24 (realtime)". I have no other applications open. The only thing that changed is that I quit AE, slept the computer, slept a little myself, and then launched AE. Trashing the cache files (manually), rebooting, relaunching and re-RAM-previewing creates a functional RAM preview, so I assume there is some problem with the cached files or the retrieval of them.
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Also, I posted on another thread that Quicktime import/render works with AE CS6 on this computer, but AE CC can not import, play, or render QT reliably (without throwing error messages). Perhaps all of this is part of the same problem.
Thoughts?
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CS 6 CC | Mac OS 10.8.4 | MacPro5,1 | 96 GB Ram | PROJECT & MEDIA drive: Mercury Accelsior > 500 MB/s read/write | CACHE drive: Mercury Accelsior > 500 MB/s read/write | Nvidia Quadro 4000 Mac | CUDA Driver: latest update | Wacom Intuos 5

96 GB RAM is accessible in 10.8.4 on my machine according to OWC. I'm working on a stereoscopic 4K project with large files and hundreds of layers. I regurlarly render with AE MP while working with huge files in PS, and am glad to see the % of RAM AE uses displayed in my render cue between 3 and 60%.
I have 12 processors (24 with hyperthreading)
I have reserved 10 for other applications leaving 14 for After Effects
4 GB per x 14 = 56 GB for AE. leaving 40 GB for everything else
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CS4 Premiere Pro General file format & preview problems

I was redirected here after posting my complaint on Twitter, so please excuse my forum manner.
I've been using Adobe Premiere Pro (CS4) for about a year now, and I've been editing videos along with other packages with no problem. (Only problem being my slow processor). Up until last week Premiere Pro has been completely fine. But seeing I have a project deadline next month, I thought I would spend a day trying to kick-start the video editing.
My source videos were originally photograph-frames animated in Flash CS4 into .MOV, decided to use the H.264 output codec. As I have finished exporting my needed videos, I imported them into Premiere Pro as usual, as I have in the past. But then I encountered the common problem that I have seen quite a few have also encountered with .MOV, or jsut general "no-preview" problem when the source video is fine.
I then took a day to research online about Premiere Pro's compatability with .MOV, among other container and formats. Upon using softwares such as MediaInfo and GSpot, I found that there might have been a problem with missing Codecs within my Adobe package. I then tried to convert the .MOV into .MPG (mpeg2), hoping such standard codec would work with Premiere Pro as they they in the past. No result avail.
I then turned to the uninstall route (retaining user info) and re-installing. The problem has NOT been fixed, what's more is that it crashes almost instantly after I try rendering the workplace. (Even post-rendering does not show the preview, but the files in the Adobe folder, does). Here's a screencap to my latest workplace, if it helps:
[IMG]http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/neo0031/AdobePreProcap.jpg[/IMG]
Before the re-install, I believe I was running Premiere Pro CS4's latest update (4.2.x) something, now it is back to 4.0.0. But I don't think that is where the main problem is? I recently changed my locale from a certain language to Japanese to run a certain program. Would that be causing the problem(s)?
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I have updated my CS4, Ppro to 4.2.1. The problem still remains. Would it have anything to do with my project setting? I don't have much knowledge to setting one up. The difference between the AVC projects and etc?
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I got render and RAM preview problems. help?

i got render and RAM preview problems with after effects! please help me
when i started on a project earlier today the RAM preview was failing and it stoped making a preview after about a second, when i hit the RAM preview buttom again it continued to load and stoped again after a half second, and it continued to do that till it wasn't loading at all, just playing the same thing up even doe it haden't loaded the whole composition! BUT if i moved the (thing you see where you are on the timeline in need of a better name) it started loading a little more and then it stoped again.. so after alot of problems and moving i managed to make a RAM preview of the whole composition..
now the real problem: when i was done with my project and i was going to reender i did like this: i added my composition to the render queue, chosed my render settings and started to render, after exactly 37 frames it stoped and no window or anything poped up, the only thing that was telling me something was wrong was the render status, and it said: ''failed at 0;00;00;37'' that's not even a second! and BTW when i render after effects only uses 12% of my 6GB RAM memory.. i dont know what to do! i've tried other render settings but the same thing happens! can anyone help me?
BTW i'm swedish and only 14 so i might misspelled something..

Start here and make sure that you understand how RAM preview is supposed to work first:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424030
What version of After Effects? Have you installed the recent updates? What operating system? What kind(s) of source footage? Has this ever worked before? What other software are you running? Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed? Are you rendering with OpenGL?
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I've been taking 90 minute or so ProRes 422 QuickTimes (29.97 interlaced) into Media Encoder CS 5 and creating H.264 Blu-Ray files for use in Encore CS5. I'm using the 1080i maximum quality setting and adjusting it so that target bitrate is 25mbps and max is 30. Also doing 2-pass VBR.
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Jeff,
Thanks for the response. Here are the answers to your questions:
Some obvious but necessary checks:
Are you authoring in a Blu-ray project and not a DVD project? YES, it is a 1080i 29.97 Blu-Ray project.
Are you checking the transcode status column for Blu-ray and not DVD? Definitely looking at the transcode status for Blu-Ray, and not DVD.
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Are you using elementary streams? If so, try multiplexed.
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I start Premiere, choose "New project", tried different sequence settings, but the DVCPro HD 25 (PAL) is the most relevant. Inside Premiere, I import a clip, and drag it onto the timeline. So far, everything´s normal. The problems starts when I press the space button for preview. The only thing´s happening is the play symbol changes to a stop symbol in the composition window. No timecode´s running, no moving marker, and only a still image in the composition window. I can jog it frame by frame, and I can move the marker, and everything is fine, but also no playback. The play button in comp window does not make a change.
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Thanks, but I´ve found a problem with my Decklink Extreme PCI card. The Premiere preview problem happens only when I´m using any Black Magic presets. Is Decklink Extreme PCI/windows 7/Adobe CS5 a bad combination? I´m not able to get any picture on my monitor from the decklink what so ever (composite/component), but there´s a signal there (black video). Worked fine in XP (with CS3), kind of worked in win7 with my old configuration (4GB RAM, single core AMD-processor), and absolutely no response now.

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