IDVD Burn rejecting DVD's

Having just created my first iDVD slideshow, with audio track, and playing it on the Mac, I want to make a DVD that will play on a DVD player. When I click BURN, it asks to inserrt a blank DVD. It then rejects the disk and asks for another.
I have used brand new DVD+R's from imation (8x) and TDK DVD+r at 4x with no luck. It just keeps asking for another blank disc.
Calling support led to two unproductive hours. Suggestions included making another show in another user space and calling back another day.
Wow! Some help.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

David,
What model G5 do you have & when was it made?
Go to "About this Mac" then "more info" choose "hardware" and "disk burning" on the menus on the left. What do you see?
FYI, mine shows this:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D:
Firmware Revision:     A606
Interconnect:     ATAPI
Burn Support:     Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache:     2000 KB
Reads DVD:     Yes
CD-Write:     -R, -RW
DVD-Write:     -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD:     Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:     Yes
Write Strategies:     CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:     No
Also you might try making a data DVD using the finder. Look in the Mac help for "Creating CDs and DVDs using the Finder"
John B.

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The DVD drives on some PCs will have trouble with DVD-R, but should be fine with +R. You might want to try reducing errors by slowing down the burning process and using the highest quality media (Verbatim is often recommended; I also use Sony). To burn slowly, you'll need to create a disc image from iDVD, and with older versions of iDVD, I've read that Patchburn software is needed. Search this forum for details.
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To start off, here's my specs:
Macbook Pro
Mac OSX (10.6.5)
iDVD (7.0.4)
Every time I try to burn a DVD it always says that the file exceeds max content. I then go to Project Info and change the encoding setting to either High Quality or Professional Quality. It goes through the process and then when I go to preview the DVD it plays, but there is no video file - its just all black. I've tried different files, different file types, and even tried to switch to a different user account. When I either burn or preview the movie, it is all black (and sometimes there is sound from the movie playing - but no picture). I only actually burned 2 DVDs because I didn't want to use up all my DVDs. I have plenty of hard drive space and the files are all saved on my comp. I never had this problem before - I used to be able to burn DVDs no problem. I did a system restore because my Mac was acting up and ever since, I can not burn DVDs.

You may need to reinstall iDVD. If you are not getting video even in preview, there is something wrong with the iDVD application. Also, were the iLife apps included on your computer's restore disks? If so, you may need to update iDVD.
First, though, try trashing the preference file:
Close iDVD, go to your Home File(YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag this plist file to the trash.
Reopen iDVD.
Open a new iDVD project. Delete encoded assets just to be sure no stray files from another project are causing problems.
The settings of High or Professional Quality are for projects that are 60 minutes in length or more (single-layer DVDs; dual layer is twice that). Best Performance is the setting for projects of less than 60 minutes. iDVD is not concerned with the GB size of the project, only the time-length.
What is the source of your videos? What format are they? Are you using iMovie? What version?

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Hi there, hope someone out there can help me! I have just finished a video clip for a band in imovie and have exported it to idvd to burn the finished product to dvd and up to there all seems to go well. However when I play back the dvd in any mac, it looks great and I can view it perfectly, however when I take it to a standard dvd and tv set up, the clip plays back slightly slower (including audio) and all of the clips appear as they are almost, 'too' good in quality giving them a slight home movie feel that they never looked like whilst in the mac?? Is this a compression or burning speed issue? please help!!
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a computer and a TV have very different concepts of displaying video, TV has less resolution and interlace, a computer higher res, no interlace etc...
final pic quality, as we claim here all the times, can only be judged on a TV - iM and iDVD are meant for tape/DVD delivery, for tellys...
if you want a more "movies-ish" look, search forum...
main principles:
video has no "grain" => have a look at geethree.com et al for plug-ins
and/or, de-interlace your projects BEFORE import into iDVD and AFTER finishing edit in iM...
use for free JES Deinterlacer
PS: next time, you can do me a personal favor: posting a thread subject as "iDVD" in the iDVD section....? and iDVD is for authoring, encoding and burning... so "Burning a DVD"...? so, try a more... discriptive title ... next time ... ;-)))

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If not, are there any other OSX apps that will burn a dvd with surround, preferably a cheap one? I know DVDSP will do it, but that's overkill for burning one disc.
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Hey don't get me wrong, dolby digital surround is way
better than ProLogic, but give the dudes credit that
came up with ProLogic in the pre-dolby digital days
some credit, it is "true" surround.
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Hi Vicadea
Welcome to apple discussions. I've never tried Camtasia for Mac. Apparently it's not working very well for you even when you export as a QuickTime movie. I don't know what to say other than it seems like fairly pricey screen capture software ($299) just to have it not work as you expected on multiple attempts.
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http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
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I have upgraded to iLife 09 and for all the bad that people have to say, I actually like it a lot. Anyway, it gave me the encouragement I needed to play with some old home movies I had stored with the aim of producing DVDs to give to my friends, and hopefully showing off the slick production values I have come up with.
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Many thanks. Looking at that thread it looks like there are a few others having the same issue as me. Might be to do with not using the predetermined rates for clip slowdown and inputting my own.
The frustrating thing is that I have only done this once right at the start of my hour long movie and if I change it now it with though the timing of my whole film out.
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I have created a movie in 16:9 format. I have created an iDVD pane in 16:9 but when I preview the movie that pane changes to 4:3 and burns the DVD as a 4:3 movie. How can I stop that, please I am in Snow Leopard, using FCE4.0.1?

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Hi
As I see this I see two parts
• Howto go from FinalCut to iDVD
• Howto set iDVD right
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• One has to set Anamorphic in the Browser window - menu columns
• Export as QuickTime movie .mov - NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION
In iDVD there are TWO places to set - WideScreen
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- now set WideScreen 16:9 - Here too
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FOR FinalCut Pro-X - I have not a Clue - as I don't use it. SORRY
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• Not using Memorex or NoName etc cheap media - as they usually DO NOT WORK as Video-DVDs
• I use Verbatim DVD-R as they play on more and even older DVD-players
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/idvd
regards

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact
'Still image slideshows' avoid the issue altogether by only showing a static image, no video compression is used & because the scene doesn't transition so it shouldn't breakup.
NOTE: Music on the slideshow is irrelevant, both types can use a soundtrack.
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If you cannot make it avoid using video streams you may be ether off making your own video slideshow in iMovie & then import that into iDVD. It may eventually look better despite being a video stream!
iDVD isn't really condusive to professional levels of control.

Hello, I am have problems with coruption of the photos in a slide show after burning the DVD in iDVD. This coruption does not always appear when you preview the project. I have slowed down the burn rate to 1X and kept the quality to professional.

I am having a great deal of problems with Data coruption in slide shows after I have burned a DVD in iDVD. I have changed burn rate from best to 1X with no difference in the coruption. I have the quality set to professional with no improvement. The size of the project is near 3.95, so it should fit on a single layer burn. Should I use either iMovie to create the slide show or "Photo to Movie"? Also, can anyone comment on how I preserve the highest quality picture resolution with a slide show? If I do use iMovie or Photo to Movie, the file size should exceed the 4.2 size so, will I have to buy new DVD's which are capable to handle the double layer burn and upto 8 GB? What DVD's are recommended? Any preferred brand? Are there problems with burning with double layer? I read on this blog of numerous problems.

DVDs are LOW resolution by today's standards - only about 0.3 megapixels - so there is no way they your images on a TV set will look "High Definition". See Preparing images for iDVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6675.html for recommendations on image sizes to use. Using larger images won't give you better quality, andf in some cases, will lower you image quality because the Quicktime resizing that occurs isn't the best.

After burning a successful DVD in iDVD out of FCPX, how can I see the settings it used? So I finally burned a DVD out of a Apple Pro Res file into iDVD in PAL format. My question now is how can I find out what the exact burn properties were so that I ca

After burning a successful DVD in iDVD out of FCPX, how can I see the settings it used?
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Is it possible to see what iDVD did?

I don't know any way you can interrogate iDVD to reveal settings to the extent that you can in a Compressor project. What you could do is open up the show's VOB in MPEG STreamclip, go to File and Reveal Stream Information; that will at least give you some rudimentary info like average bit rate. Perhaps someone, with more iDVD experience, can chime in here.
The broader question is why use Compressor at all if your current workflow is doing the job to your satisfaction?
The value of Compressor is that it gives you control over the many parameters that affect size quality. and playability. The Compressor presets can give you a starting point for DVD delivery, Web, etc. From those presets, people typically experiment by adjusting the parameters until they get the desired results for their specific show. It's a little bit science and a little bit art. After experimenting, you may be able to get slightly better quality for the project you've successfully burned in iDVD by using Compressor and something likeToast…or maybe not.
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