IDVD - disk image missing audio

I made a disk image of my iDVD project (with video & audio) to save space on my external hard drive. It appears that the audio did not transfer. Any help appreciated.

It appears that the audio did not transfer.
Not enough information, as that description can cover two different scenarios.
1. When you play the Disk Image in DVD Player there is no audio. That is a problem.
2. When you look in the TS folder of the disk image you find that the AUDIO_TS folder is empty. That is not a problem, it always is unless you have made an Audio DVD.
Which is it?

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If I create a slide slow of family photographs in iDVD and then save that slide show as a disk image can I just burn that disk image to a DVD in the Finder and have it play on my consumer DVD player that I use with my TV or do I have to burn the slide show from within iDVD.
I'm just getting started with using iDVD and want to make slide shows of all my digital photos and I find iDVD Help not very useful. Are there any good book that will help me use iDVD and present simple straight forward steps to creating slide shows.
BTW I'm using iDVD 5.0.1
Thanks,
Doug

Hi Doug,
If I create a slide slow of family photographs in iDVD and then save that slide show as a disk image can I just burn that disk image to a DVD in the Finder and have it play on my consumer DVD player that I use with my TV or do I have to burn the slide show from within iDVD.You use the Disk Utility application to burn the disk image to a DVD, see Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS XI'm just getting started with using iDVD and want to make slide shows of all my digital photos and I find iDVD Help not very useful. Are there any good book that will help me use iDVD and present simple straight forward steps to creating slide shows
David Pogue's iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual is highly recommended.

IDVD disk image burning

I created a disk image from an iDVD project and now I want to burn it on DVD.
I checked first on Apple DVD Player and VLC and the DVD played fine. Audio and video worked.
Burned using Toast, but when I played it on my standalone DVD player, there was no audio! I thought it could have been due to the empty AUDIO-TS folder, but I remembered it's supposed to be empty (unless it's a special audio DVD??).
Went back to the .img file, mounted and used DiskUtility to burn. Again, I checked first if it played on Apple DVD Player. It did, audio and video were OK but when played on the standalone DVD player there was no audio.
I tried again with DiskUtility and used a slower burning speed. Result: still no audio when played on a standalone DVD player.
The burned DVDs play with audio when I view them on my Powerbook.
I wonder what could be wrong. Should I go back to my iDVD Project even if audio and video are fine (on the disk image)? I'm at a loss.
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If it plays in your computer player (and you say it does), the place to look for problems is in the set top DVD player playback.
Some set top DVD players don't like writable media.
If you didn't use 'good quality' media like Verbatim, or Maxell burned at 4x or slower, your disc could have a lot of burn errors that are causing problems. Computer players tend to have better error correction than set top players and are more tolerant of burn-errors.

IDVD Disk Image - How long does it take?

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I exported my iMovie to iDVD, added the necessary effects and am now trying to save it as a disk image for ripping out DVDs later. How long does the "Save as Disk Image" process normally take? Mine has been at it for over 2 hours now. It seems to be stuck in the "Process Menus" stage and says "Rendering menu video asset...". Last time it got stuck at this same place , so I cancelled it and rebooted the machine. Now it seems to be stuck again at the same place. Any ideas how long this typically takes?
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Will iDVD Disk Image work for creating DVD's on PC

I created a disk image of video that I have made DVD's from. I want to send the disk image to friends to create DVD's but they have PC's. Is there a way for them to use that disk image to make CD's? What programs would they use? etc.

Hi Parrish Jones
Welcome to apple discussions. The good news is that a disc image burned through iDvd is identical in content to the finished dvd. So if your friend can use the video_ts folder to create a new dvd (on his choice of PC Dvd burning software) then there shouldn't be a problem. At worst you may have to first provide him/her with a burned iDvd rather than the disc image (depending on weather or not s/he can read said image on a PC).
I personally use Roxio Toast to burn the disc image to Dvd-R. And Roxio also make a PC version of this software called Roxio Creator. Although I've read the PC version for Windows Vista isn't nearly as good as the Mac version. (why I don't know).
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/system-requirements.html
Most folks who run Windows Vista / burn Dvd's on a pc do not necessarily use Roxio products as opposed to Nero or CDBurnerXP (and there are other alternatives also listed below for the PC).
http://cdburnerxp.se/download.php
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-free-alternatives-to-nero-cddvd-burner/
Your choice (or rather your friend's choice).
Other helpful link/s for your mac when using apple's disc utility rather than Toast:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/making_dvdcopies.html
Hope the above links help but if not just come on back. And good luck.
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How can I save an idvd disk image to secondary hard drive?

I'm trying to tshoot a burning issue with my 1st imovie/idvd project (some old home movies). I've found the hints to try the 'save disk image' option, but when I choose that option I get a 'multiplexer preparation error; not enough free space'. I know my primary drive doesn't have enough room but my secondary one does. Problem is idvd seems to default to the primary and I haven't found an option to choose to save to the secondary. Probably something simple, but I'm not finding it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Probably something simple, but I'm not finding it. Can someone point me in the right direction?
You need to move enough 'things' from your start-up hard drive to your external hard drive to free up 10 to 20 GB if you want iDVD to work. Your start-up drive is where everything happens and you can't change that.
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I am trying to create a disk image of an iDVD project which I can burn to an external DVD drive. I am using iDVD 5. I go to file, and select Save as Disk Image. The movie renders for several hours, but when it gets to Burn, nothing. Burn is selcted in the iDVD window and says: Current Operation: Writing, but the progress bar for Burn remains empty for hours until I cancel. iDVD can't be selected in the menu bar after Burn is selected in iDVD. If I go to Force Quit, it says "iDVD (not reponding)".
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Well, I have my first movie. This being my first time I'm not sure if I can give anyone advice, but I was finally successful creating an image and then burning it to a DVD.
One piece of advice I am sure of. If this is your first time making a movie with iMovie and iDVD, do NOT start with a long movie as your first movie. Do a short movie and find out how things are supposed to work first. I did a long movie which caused a lot of confusion and frustration because I didn't have a successful experience first.
My movie is of a school show. I was finally successful when I deleted some numbers. Apparently the problem I posted was because my movie was too long for Best Performance. I did upgrade to iLife 6 in the process of figuring out what was wrong. I'm not sure if this is the reason, but I was able to get 72 minutes of video on my DVD with Best Performance (everything I've seen said the maximum is 60 minutes). The Status menu in Project Info of iDVD 6 says I have 72 minutes of video which takes up 3.9 GB of a 4.2 GB DVD. Once again, this being my first time, I'm not sure if this is because I'm using iLive 06.
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I went ahead and installed it and created a project for three of my iMovies of my travels. They are all 3-1/2 to five minutes long and all have chapter markings.
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Disk Image Audio Drifting Out of Synch

Hello, I've searched and can't find a relevant audio synch thread, although I've read several in the past.
My issue:
I export from FCP a QT file that is perfectly in synch. However, once making a disk image in iDVD, it gets 1 or 2 frames out of synch towards the middle of a 75 min project.
I've ensured that all chapter markers are at least 3 seconds from any transition or keyframe, etc. I also have fully rendered all video 100% and mixed-down all audio. I also preloaded the "text" track in QT to try and head off the synch issue. I am exporting a sequence that has several sequences nested-in from an older (much larger) file. I've further edited, requiring up to 6 audio tracks, but only 2 video tracks. But, again the QT file is perfectly in synch. It only happens when making a Disk Image.
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There was a similar issue in an earlier version of compressor to DVD Studio Pro.
You don't say which versions of softeare you are using but it might be related.
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IDVD 6, no audio on disk image or burned DVD

Seems I've just been plagued with this problem as well, and the first time I noticed it was after accepting an upgrade from iDVD 6.02 to iDVD 6.04 as well as a firmware update.
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Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
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Deleting and rebuilding the iDVD project.
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I went back and edited a few more pictures to what i had previously had, and shared it in the media browser.
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Hi
(an iPhoto set of photos with iTunes audio imported into iMovie) to iDVD
Yes this is the problem - in iTunes there is a copy-protection that moves over
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• Plays well in iMovie
• Plays well in iDVD preview
• Silent on DVD
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