Idvd doens't find imovie project

I've saved a project in imovie. I've saved it in the same manner I've saved all the other movies I've done. I saved it to the same folder as all the other movies I've done. I even tried saving it again with a different name. I've restarted the compuer. The project is where it is supposed to be, I can see it. When I open IDVD and look under "media-movies" tab, it is not there. All the other projects that I've done are still there. I can go back to IMovie and open it back up and do whatever I want with it. But IDVD cannot find it.
I have this eerie feeling that I am missing some basic step., but I've gone over and over and can't find anything that I've done different that would cause this problem.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Sharon,
I think you are mixing up a couple of issues.
I find the DVDproj file but other than the opening screen and audio, it says it cannot find the Video and Audio files.
The project file has links to all the elements used in the project - move or delete any of the items and the project is 'broken'.
The img folders say VIDEO_TX AND AUDIO_TX which it doesn't recognize.
If you actually created a disk image file of the completed project out of iDVD (file type .img) you can use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the disk image to writable media. Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006 tells you how to do this.
F Shippey

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IDVD won't recognize imovie project

Hello people.
I have an 09 Mac desktop computer. I have now made seven iMovie projects ranging from ten minutes to almost two hours. Each time I shared the project with iDVD to burn the finished product to disc. Each time I made sure I could play back the movie on our DVD player.
I was able to play back each of these movies on my computer as the files ( I am assuming they were files ) were automatically stored in a movies folder right after they were shared with iDVD from iMovie. Since they take up space on the hard drive, I decided to store the files on an external hard drive. I believe each one copied to the hard drive. Once each one was on the hard drive, I made sure I could play it back. Then I trashed each file on the computer, again making sure right after that I could still play each file on the external drive. They would open in iDVD and I could play them. All was good.
Recently I made another iMovie project of my children's high school play. As I did before, I shared it with iDVD and it appeared to be working as usual. It was to take approx. 30 minutes to create the movie from the project. HERE IS MY FIRST PROBLEM! Usually after the movie is created, it then opens in iDVD and from here I can burn to disc. iDVD did not open! I tried a couple of times and nothing. I then tried a short 30 second clip from iMovie with no titles or transitions or anything. This worked. iDVD opened after creating the short movie. My project is an hour long. Consequently with this project I shared it with the media browser and made it into an avi file. I then used a program ( Toast ) that came with my Roxio Converter ( VHS to DVD ) software to burn the movie to disc.
HERE IS MY NEXT PROBLEM! I went to view the movies on my hard drive and iDVD won't recognize them. It says it can't find the missing audio and video files. Can anyone help me with this?
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Hello darrenfromnanaimo
Cross your fingers for a satisfactory answer to the "NEXT PROBLEM." When you copied the iDVD files to your external drive and deleted them on your computer -- hopefully you just deleted the iDVD files and not the iMovie files. If that's the case, you can reconnect the external iDVD files to the original iMovie files and you're back in business (open the external iDVD project and use it's browser to find the original iMovie files). If the iMovie files were deleted, that's a more difficult problem -- you'll need to recreate the iMovie files (re-import from the camcorder and re-edit), or you'll have to "rip" your DVDs back into an electronic file (which gives you only the finished product of your original editing, with slightly degraded video resolution).
John

Can't find Imovie project on HD

I've been having a nightmare week trying to burn a DVD from Imovie.
I think a source of the problem may be that I cannot find the movie on the HD. I'm pretty sure that when it's playing in Imovie its playing from the external HD. I understand this would make it difficult to burn.
I copied the big folder (I can't find the .mov file in it!) to the HD and set the one that was in the external in the trash. Imovie said it couldn't open the file "cause it was in the trash.
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The size of the iMovie project folder is not important for iDVD, only running time. On my 800MHz G4 iMac, it takes about 5 hours to compress a 60 minute DVD. So there must be something wrong with your Mac, iDVD or your iMovie project.
Prevent Mac Disasters
Eight Simple Steps You Can Take Now to Keep Your Mac from Falling Apart
http://www.macworld.com/2005/01/features/preventmacdisasters/index.php
(Article is in 3 parts, don't miss parts 2 and 3)
The unofficial iDVD 4 FAQ:
http://www.kentidwell.com/idvd4/index.html
The unofficial iMovie FAQ:
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml
The time here is now 10:30PM and I need some sleep :-)
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IDVD not loading my iMovie projects

Hello,
I really, really, hope someone can help.
I created a film in iMovie and would like to create a DVD with chapters/menus etc using iDVD.
Once I had finished my film and set the chapters etc I went to Share -> Media Browser and selected HD 720 and clicked publish.This seemed to work fine and took some time as my film is 57mins and 33 seconds.
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- Now I don't even have many projects in iMovie...about 4 and they aren't as big as this one which I have been working on for some time.
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Not sure how it all works but I want iDVD to allow me to access the film I shared in Media Browser and then create a DVD that has all the chapters I set in iMovie and so allows me to create a good DVD with all the sub-menu's etc.
I hope all that makes sense? I just really am struggling to understand why the iMovie projects won't load in iDVD?!? All this work for nothing?? I hope not!
I was advised to create the DVD this way - I know there is another way to do it in iMovie - Share -> iDVD.....I think I did try that once and it crashed but do I need to do it this way? will that work?
Hope someone can help and advise me of a way to do this. I don't want to burn this as a DVD without chapters and slick menu's. I was really counting on iMovie and iDVD to work. The screenshot of what is happening follows:
I am using iDVD 7.1.2, iMovie 11 and a 2008 MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz Dual Core Intel) with 4gb ram and the rather crappy geforce 8600M GT with 128mb.
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