IDVD Background Noise (not on iMovie or QuickTime)
So I created several movies in iMovie with no issues. I can upload them to my website and play them back, YouTube, play them back in QuickTime, etc, with no issues. But when I convert them in iDVD and play the DVD back, I get terrible background noise in all sorts random spots. Can anyone help or provide advice on how to fix this (or a different software I could use besides iDVD that would resolve this issue)? It's extremely frustrating.
Thanks for the replies guys.
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This is the link. Please take a look.
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I did not specifically ask that you do so earlier, but you should create another user account now. More than one account will allow you to test to determine whether the problem is limited to your original (administrator) user account. If you need instructions for how to create a new account, search your MacBook's Finder > Help for "new user account" (without quotation marks.)
Having created the new user account, you can try all of the following suggestions:
(0) If the noise is not there when you play any other YouTube videos, you can be sure the problem is not with your audio output circuitry or speakers.
(1) Built-in iSight has no microphone of its own; it uses your Mac's built-in mic for sound input. Based on the info you have posted to date, your MB's built-in mic may have hardware problems.
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Unless the problem is the same in all these tests, note any difference you encounter so you can tell the technician (in the event that professional service is eventually determined to be necessary.)
(2) You could download and apply the 10.5.8 COMBO update:
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Use your MacBook's Disk Utility to repair permissions before the update and again IMMEDIATELY after the restart that finishes the installation.
Then test again to see if the problem persists.
Although I doubt that it will correct your particular problem, properly applying the Combo Update costs nothing but a bit of time, and it has been reported to correct a variety of strange problems for many of us users.
(3) If none of the suggestions you get here resolves your problem, and if the problem never appears when you use your external mic, your problem seems likely to be a hardware problem in your MacBook.
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