IDvd dv. files

My iDvd dv. files won't drag to the trash. How can I off them after they're burned?

the iM projects shown in the media pane of iDVD can not be erased within iDVD...
simply switch to Finder, drag'n drop them into the trash from your "Movies" Folder...

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Files/Clips from old iDVD image files

I am an underwater photographer and I have a number of older projects that I created in FCP/iDVD. I have the iDVD image files, but not the original MOV files, as they were huge and were deleted to save space.
I would like to create a compilation DVD that has all of the old disks combined into one.
Any way to extract the clips from the image files and drop them into a new project. They are already rendered to the the DVD format.
Thanks in advance, David

Frank's reply is correct but a little lacking in detail!
You will need to re-edit the files in iMovie in order to make it one single project.
You first need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.

Import from iDVD image file

I was looking through some of my old iDVD images and accidentally left one of them mounted. I opened iMovie 08 and it instantly recognized the DVD as a Camcorder and gave me a thumbnail of each Chapter and gave me the option to import it into iMovie for editing. I manually chose the chapters I wanted it to import and things were really smooth sailing. Once it was imported I noticed that it didn't include any of the audio tracks. Is there a way to fix this? My current work-around is to convert the .VOB files to an editable format using VisualHub and then import it into iMovie but this is very time consuming. I am assuming that Apple meant to include the import of unprotected DVD's into iMovie otherwise it wouldn't have prompted me to do an import. I haven't tested it with any other iDVD image files yet to see if my problem is isolated but I will report back with my success/failure when I have a chance to test it out. Just thought I would see if anyone else is having this issue.
UPDATE: I just ran across this thread that looks related but it deals mainly with camcorders and not iDVD Imports. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1075399&tstart=30
Aaron
Message was edited by: Aaron Stovall

Ian:
Thanks for the response. I'll look at the Ans 1 tutorial. As for Ans 2, I did choose the new location and I believe Lightroom IGNORED THE SETTING. I say "believe" because I must confess that I did not rename anything in the blue box as outlined and that may be my problem. But I did select the parent folder I wanted the images moved to. (I did not note this in the help question because I couldn't recall or even review the steps I used without repeating the entire Import procedure again.) Fortunately, your post jogged my memory on those details.
This interface and the need to learn how Lightroom does some things is why I complained about the less-then-perfect functionality in my post. Adobe's use of the non-standard navigation interface was a very bad decision, and it leads to much confusion when using Lightroom. The Lightroom design team should have stuck with the OS X navigation interface -- because they did not improve upon it.
Adobe has a long way to go to make Lightroom into the useful product it should have been for a version 1.0 release. It has enormous potential, but for now, it remains too slow and has too many interface quirks and functionality issues to be a reliable tool.

Using iDVD project file after deleting original iMovieHD

I've been using iMovieHD and iDVD to convert my home movies from miniDV tapes to DVDs. I've been putting two one-hour tapes together into one iMovie and then creating an iDVD project with themes, chapters, etc.
Each two-hour iMovie file takes up >20 GB. Before I burned my DVD, the iDVD project file took up only a few MB. After I burned the DVD, the file size grew to >4 GB, so I figured (erroneously, it seems) that this new file package contained all of the information needed to keep burning DVDs. Threfore, I deleted the original massive iMovie file and kept only the iDVD project file.
Now every time I try to load the iDVD file, the program lists all the missing files and, other than my themes and chapter titles, there is nothing left of the original project.
Am I missing something here? What's taking up all that space (4 GB)? Am I completely screwed? Is the only way to make new copies of my project to copy the DVD that I made?
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Jay,
As John has said, you should have created a Disc Image of your DVD project before deleting the iMovie file. When working in iMovie/iDVD you must not delete ANYTHING that is in the project, not even the iMovie trash can, which often mysteriously fills up with "stuff", until you are sure you are finished editing and then have saved a Disc Image to burn further DVD's from. The files you deleted from iMovie were the reference for the file you were using in iDVD. Without that iMovie file, your iDVD project will only show what was created there, like your theme page.
Sorry that's bad news. Your options now are re-create your iMovies from your tapes, OR, rip the DVD you have back to your Mac to burn more DVD's.
Forest
iMac G5 20" 1.8 GHz - 400GB HD - 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8) 300 GB & 160GB Ext drives, QT 7.1.5 Pro, Panasonic GS-500 3CCD miniDV cam

IDVD unsupported file type with jpegs

Hi,
I am working with iDVD 7.1.2....and trying to insert jpegs and/or Tiffs into the opening drop zones.
I keep getting the error : "Unsupported file type : Unknown format"
I haven't had this error before. I am getting my files from iPhoto, and/or dragging from the finder.
What should I try?
Thank you in advance!

Try this basic troubleshooting fix:
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - delete the contents of IDVD'S cache folder: User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD.
3 - launch IDVD and try again.
NOTE: If you're running Mavericks or Yosemite go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

Broken Link to iDVD Project File

I created an DVD from iMovie just fine.
However, when I try to use the iDVD Project file, it cannot find the shared file. This means I have to redo the iDVD opening screens whenever I make changes in iMovie, and want an updated DVD with the latest changes.
I have moved both the iMovie file & the iDVD Project File to my external firewire drive. Both open fine, but won't link.

Thanks, good advice. I'm up to date on OSX and iLife 05.
My iBook only has 40G free, so I'm creating & storing my imovies on the external HD. What if I create iDVD project from the external drive and leave it there? Will it link, or does it have to be on the startup (internal) HD?

Burning iDVD project files

I'm trying to free up hard disk space by bruning iDVD project files (.dvdproj) to a DVD-R.
When I tried doing this the files would not open. There was an error message that said - not writable.
I tried to first archive the files as Archived.dvdproj and I checked read/write permissions, but I still get the same error message.
Is there a way to burn these files to DVD-R and have them available to open in the iDVD edit window the same as they were on my hard drive.
Photoscene

I'll try to be more specific. This was an iPhoto slideshow that was exported to iDVD.
I was able to delete the 10 megapixel .jpeg files from the Finder, the images from iPhoto, the QuickTime file, the iDVD.img file, and the Audio.Sd2f file (Roxio).
The Roxio audio file was needed to combine three music tracks into one file so that iPhoto could export them to iDVD.
Deleting the project saved 3GB of hard disk space.
The only files left were the four .aiff files in iTunes.
After this the Archived.dvdpoj file still opened in the iDVD edit window and played all the way through. From there it was burned to a CD-R, saving 400 MB of space.
I double checked the CD-R by copying the Archived.dvdproj file on to the desktop a second time and it works as it should.
Photoscene
PowerBook G4 17 inch, PowerBook G4 12 inch Mac OS X (10.4.6) Tiger/Panther

I have created an iMovie file and have created an iDVD menu file. I am now ready to burn a DVD. But my superdirve is broken. If I put my files on a mac without iMovie or iDVD, can I burn my DVD with Toast 11?

I have created an iMovie file and have created an iDVD menu file. I am now ready to burn a DVD. But my superdirve is broken. If I put my files on a mac without iMovie or iDVD, can I still burn my DVD with Toast 11?

no need for Toast ..
tell iDVD to create a disk-image
transfer dmg to othe Mac
launch the Disk Utility, burn that dmg .......

IDVD .proj files are self-sustaining?

I couldn't easily find this in iDVD help so just thought I would post here for confirmation.
I've had several videos that I imported from VCR using a XLR8 InterView audio/video out to USB/audio in cable, along with USBVision software. Those ended up as .mov files on my hard drive.
I then used Quicktime Pro to divide up the videos into segments. Then I created new projects in iDVD with various video segments, encoded/burned discs. My .proj files are now anywhere from 2.1 GB to 4.3 GB.
My question is, can I delete all of the .mov Quicktime files if all I may ever want to do is re-open the iDVD .proj file and burn another disc? I assume it's copied/encoded everything it needs and won't seek any reference to the .mov files, but wasn't sure.
Thanks
Nick

Hello, Nick,
Welcome to the discussions.
If I understand your question, you have several iDVD projects and you would like to keep the projects in order to burn disks in the future. You want to delete the original .mov files to free up drive space, and you want to be sure it is ok to do this.
NO, NO, NO!!!! DON'T DELETE THEM YET!!! READ ON * FOR WHEN YOU CAN SAFELY DELETE THEM!!!
It does not work that way. iDVD projects are more like virtual projects that pull the various audio, video, and photo files together when encoding/burning a disk. The media do not stay in the iDVD project. If you delete those files, iDVD will not be able to locate them to burn another disk.
*The way to accomplish what you want is to go back to each iDVD project, open it, and under File, select 'Save as Disk Image' to have iDVD create a disk image of your project.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
You will need to do this for each iDVD project you wish to save. Name it the same name as your iDVD project so that you will know what it is. A disk image is a self-contained file that is an exact replica of your iDVD project. Once it has been created, you can use the disk image to burn more disks, using Disk Utility (found in your Applications folder).
The process of creating a disk image can take some time, depending on how large the project is. It looks the same as the burn process, but the end result is a disk image file, not a DVD.
*Once you have ALL your iDVD projects saved as disk images, you can safely delete ALL of the movie files, .mov, quicktime, .dv, whatever you used. You can also delete ALL of the iDVD projects themselves. If you ever want to burn another DVD, just use Disk Utility and the disk image of whatever iDVD you want.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

IDVD Render Files (are there any that can be deleted?)

Hi all
Just to make certain, whether or not iDVD is still working from an older iDVD rendered file, is there somewhere to delete these files? Render files?
(like FCE stores them)
Perhaps not
In this particular case, I deleted an old movie file, but created a new one with the same name. I just wanted to make sure because I still see the same glitch from a particular frame in the movie.
(I'm sure it's the source media)
I'm dragging QT movie files directly into iDVD
(have not had any problems)
Thanx

No information here - guess there are no iDVD render files
Thanx
Mike

FCP 7 upgrade. awkward dimension in iDVD/QTime file

Hi there, we just upgraded to FC7 and everything works fine...but.... when exporting the movie to QT , the aspect ratio of the movie is modified to a different aspect ratio and when using iDVD for making the final movie it looks stretched with 2 gary vertical lines on each side....we just surfed all the possible settings in FC and nothing looks to work....thanks in advance for your support

Hey guys..i did my research in other similar problems and actually we previously opened the QT file in QT and resized the file BUT now there is no solution like this any more since we upgrade to FC7 and snow leopard .....help....

Error Message in iDVD with file Created in FCE4

When I [attempt to] open My latest movie file on my computer I get control buttons (PLAY FFW RWD PAUSE ETC...) but no image in Quicktime.
When I attempt to import it into the iDVD program, I get an error message:
"Unsupported File Type : Broken Reference Movie in TavaMovieFinal.mov"

Sounds like you exported a reference file and made a change in the sequence or the some element of the reference movie is lost. The file is unplayable as you've discovered.

Exporting to iDVD - Max file size - Shorter bounce time

I put in markers on an iMovie project that I did in GarageBand 08. After I put the chapter markers in, I went to export to iDVD but keep getting error message "Maximum file size of 2 GB exceeded. Please choose a shorter bounce time. However, the GarageBand version of the project is only 1.18 GB. I tried to compact it down but it gives the same error message.
I tried finding out what is meant by bounce time and how to shorten it but the online manuals don't mention it at all. I've used the chapter markers before in GarageBand and I've never had this error message before.

Don't know if you ever found a solution to this… I just ran across the same identical problem. In searching the web I found this discussion which seems to be working for me. It involves disabling an advanced preference in iDvd.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=404737

FCP to iDVD: "unsupported file type"?

Anyone know how to resolve this? I exported a 63 second FCP video out in numerous ways: QT self-contained; QT not self-contained, and QT Conversion with the following compression settings: H.264, Video, and uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2. I opened iDVD and whether I drug the file into the window or imported it, each time I got a message saying "Unsupported fiel type: Video is over 90 minutes
I have no idea what this is about and do not know who to correct for it. Do you? Thanks so much, Peggy

I had the same issue and after 3 hours of trying to figure out how to tix it, I quit iDVD, restarted the computer, and voila, it worked. Go figure.

Huge iDVD archived files

I encoded an iMovie project with iDVD 5. The iMovie DV files are about 7GB, and iDVD can perfectly fit them onto a 4GB DVD. I decided to save the project with the "Archive Project" option with the encoded files. Why does the estimated size to archive the project is over 24GB???

Alxalx,
An Archived project (withe encoded files) contains both the encoded and unencoded versions of all your movies and songs, etc.
So if you have a 7GB movie and the encoded version is 4 GB, you have at least 11GB plus some extra.
The iMovie DV files are about 7GB
Is this the combined size of the iMovie files? Or how many do your have?
If you just want to be able to make copies (but no more edits) you can "Save as Disk Image" This saves the final encoded product only, but cannot be edited/changed and will only be 4GB or smaller.
John

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