IDVD & ending Chapters

Is there a way to have a chapter return to it's menu at the end of it's play. I have read that it is normal for a chapter to go onto the "next in line", but also that some individuals are having just the opposite issue; chapters ending and then returning to originating menu. That is what I wish to happen.
Thanks in advance

Hi Arthur C. Wiese, Jr.
Welcome to apple discussions.
Q: Is there a way to have a chapter return to it's menu at the end of it's play.
A: There is within DVDSP but iDvd is a bit more problematic. I don't normally advocate going back into your original iMovie project once an iDvd has already been burned/completed since this has the bad habit of rendering your current iDvd project useless in terms of pointers to all QT reference movies. You could however go back to the original iMovie project in this particular case and export that one segment / scene as a separate QT movie unto itself then add that one chapter as a separate QT movie within iDvd (use export selected clip/s only within iMovie). That would cause it to return to the main menu upon completion of playback for each individual movie added to the main menu in iDvd.
Keep in mind you'll need delete encoded assets from the advanced menu tab in iDvd (within your current iDvd project) or start a completely new iDvd project file if you should opt to use the above approach.
Other options / apps include using QT Pro to edit the movie/s and then add those particular segments / scenes right back into iDvd.
A third option is:
http://www.mydvdedit.com/
If you opt for the latter you may also want to consider making a copy of the original prior to performing any modifications whatsoever.
Hope this info is useful but if not just come on back. Good luck.

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Exporting From FCE to IDVD With Chapters How long

Exporting From FCE to IDVD With Chapters How long will the DVD hold??? if i have an hour and 40 minutes of HD footage all cut together with FCE and has been saved as a movie file, how many hours will IDVD let me burn to it?
if i run over the allowed amount will it say i need to drop quality, i am editing loads at the moment and dont want to get to the end and it come up with an error message. also will idvd include the chapter markers if i export with them?

Sure, no problem.
1. Go to Project > Project Info in iDVD.
2. Make sure "DVD Type" is set to a single-layer DVD.
3. Under "Encoding," choose "Best Performance." Is the arrow solidly in the green portion of the quality bar? If so, go ahead and burn your disc.
4. If not, choose "High Quality." Again, go ahead and burn your disc if the arrow is solidly in the green.
3. If the arrow still isn't in the green, select Professional Quality. If the arrow's in the green, burn your disc. If not, you'll have to delete some of the menus (scene selection, etc.) or menu content and check again. You should be able to burn up to 2 hours if you don't have a lot of other menu content.

Why won't iDVD create chapters?

Why won't iDVD create chapters?
I'm using iMovie "09" and iDVD.
I created an iMovie project with chapter markers. When I try to create a DVD project, selecting a Theme with chapters, the chapters do no appear...only the full movie.
Don

And I figure about - if there is a setting somewhere for minutes per Chapter as in Roxio Toast ?
Go into the Map mode, select the movie there
and select the Advanced ➙ Create Chapter Markers for Movie menu option
Then you can set the Chapter length in 1 minute increments:

Burning a Disk in iDVD and chapters not linking properly

Project Duration=57:00 DVD Capacity=3.1 of 4.2
Motion Menus=1:41 of 15:00 Tracks=2 Menus=3
Theme-Reflection White from 6.0 Themes, The preview of this DVD works perfectly.
There is a short :10 (autoplay intro) which leads to MainMenu. The MainMenu has two items 1=full playing video 2="scenes"
GoTo "scenes". Problem 1=chapter menu no longer animates in. Problem 2=only the first of four chapters works correctly; the other three re-start the DVD from the auto-play intro.
Using arrows to go to 2nd chapter page works. The page animates in correctly. The two chapters here work fine.
What can happen from a working Preview to a non-working DVD?
How can chapters link to something they shouldn't be able to see?

Best bet is to use the Delete Encoded Assetts command in iDVD to throw out everything and force reencoding of your project from scratch. Sometimes junk can be left in the cache and temp files that effects later projects because they were not properly cleared out.
My standard list of things to do first for these weird sort of problems, but I also tend to run these before I go to burn an iDVD project just to be safe. Keep in mind this list represents the programs I tend to use. I am running Panther (10.3.9) so Tiger users might want to check the below list for compatibility. There are several alternate programs that do the same things with some combining the functions of some of the ones below. So everyone has their favorites, but here are mine...
Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system, especially any external drives that you use for iMovie and iDVD projects.
Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
Reboot your Mac (after running Cache Out X you are given the option to restart the machine).
Patrick

FCE to iDVD (w chapters created in FCE)

Hello,
I've searched old threads on how to Export your FCE project to iDVD. Most of the posts said to "export to quicktime movie", then load your movie into iDVD.
I tried that, and it worked - however, I created my chapters in FCE and they did not carry over when loaded into iDVD.
Is there something I missed in the exporting process so that iDVD recognizes my chapters??
Thank you.

http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc2.html
The important thing is follow the chapter marker rules. Make sure they're applied to the timeline, not the clips. No marker at the beginning of the sequence. No marker within one second of another. That the chapter marker code <CHAPTER> is untouched.

IDVD 6 Chapters

I have had this issue before in version 5 and can't recall what caused it or how I fixed it.
When I drag a movie that I exported from FCP (with chapters) onto iDVD it correctly creates chapters but when I go to the 'Scene Selection' window any one of the chapters (other than no. 1) can be initially selected.
My present situation is as follows. I created highlights from my son's basketball season and created 6 chapters in the movie entitled Game 1, Game 2 and so on thru Game 5, then Awards Ceremony. When I burned the DVD and chose the Scene Selection page 'Game 2' is the highlighted. When I navigate thru the chapters it jumps all over the place and not in a logical order.
It is irritating and embarassing since I am creating this for other parents (and I don't want to leave the Apple icon illuminated if I can't make it appear professional).
Please help.
Rick

When I navigate thru the chapters it jumps all over the place and not in a logical order.
If I understand, you mean that when you go to chapter menus, the highlighted chapters can vary: Chapter one on one menu then chapter four on another menu instead of chapter one on that new menu.
That happened to me, and many other people, in iDVD 5. It's still happening to me on occasion in iDVD 6.0.2...
I'm just living with it.

16:9 in iDVD with chapters...

I'm exporting a clip with chapter markers with *QuickTime Movie...*. The I put the movie into iDVD. Voila, the chapters all make auto-menu systems and stuff and it's all good.
BUT, when I preview the video, it doesn't fill the screen. I get gray bars on the right and left.
So, I thought about it and I tried opening them in QuickTime. They looked kinda similar there, so I went into the properties and picked production. That made things look right in QuickTime, but it still doesn't fill the 16:9 frame in iDVD's preview mode.
It looks right if I export it to DV, but then it loses the chapters! I want the chapters! I want chapters and the right aspect ratio! What am I supposed to do?

http://www.fcpbook.com/Video9.html

Goal: Burn iDVD w/Chapters & 2 Audio Channels

I have 10 songs each with video and two audio channels. I want the dvd to go from one song to the next, but also want to have chapters so that I can quickly get to #8 from #4 (for example). What I've tried:
1) Export individual songs via QuickTime - the two audio channels flattened into one. Gotta have 2 discreet that can be controlled via mixer.
2) Exported all 10 as one sequence with a chapter marker for each song via QuickTime Conversion - got 2 stereo channels - poifect - but only one long 'chapter', the only way I can move thru is via FastForward - not good.
Manuals say just add chapter markers (not at beginning, >1 second apart from each other, only 99, etc), but I can't get them to function in iDVD.
SHOULD QuickTime keep two audio channels, if so, how do I do it?
SHOULD I be using QuickTime Conversion - does it toss the markers?
Help and Thanx

I've found the articles on Ken Stone's site about chapter markers and preparing Final Cut materials for iDVD extremely helpful. I would suggest you check them out and try the suggested workflows. The site address is www.kenstone.net
Best of luck.

IDVD export - chapters

Hi,
need help with chapters exported to iDVD. When i export Keynote project to iDVD it creates chapters, submenus etc. and everything works great when i check it in preview mode. But afer burning the dvd when i go to submenu and try to start any of the chapters the whole presentation starts to play from the beginning. What do i do wrong?
PowerBook G5 DC 2,3GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Pressing M twice will set a marker and call up the Marker Editor. As mentioned above by Ian, choose "Chapter". Also, make sure your finished piece is exported with Chapter Markers selected (controls for this are in the Export dialog window).

IDVD with chapters

Are there real clear instructions somewhere to create an iDVD project using a Final Cut Express movie with chapter markers? I is easy with iMovie, but not sure how to do it with a Final Cut Express. I think I need the instructions to start from how to put chapter markers in Final Cut and all the way through iDVD.

Here's how I do it, and I've been getting good results every time:
TO GET A FINAL CUT EXPRESS PROJECT READY FOR iDVD:
Make sure the Easy Setup has DV-NTSC chosen (or PAL if that's your format), not NTSC DV Converter or anything else. Otherwise, the movie that you export and drop into iDVD won't work--it won't have its chapter markers, or the buttons won't work, or both.
TO ADD CHAPTER (SCENE) MARKERS FOR iDVD:
Don't put a Chapter Marker at the start of the FCE movie--iDVD does that for you. Anywhere else, put the playhead where you want the chapter marker to be and hit the M key twice. On the box that appears, click Add Chapter Marker. FCE will then put <Chapter> into the comment box. Leave it exactly that way, or it won't work. Give the marker a name (you can change it later in iDVD) in the Name box. Click OK. You can have 99 chapter markers.
EXPORTING YOUR FCE PROJECT FOR iDVD:
Before exporting your FCE project, in the Timeline, first Select All, then choose Sequence > Render All > Both. Next Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown, which merges all the audio. Now you're ready to export the project as a QuickTime Movie: File > Export > Quicktime Movie (and NOT a self-contained movie, unless you have good reason to do so), and at the options, choose Audio-and-Visual and Chapter Markers. After FCE exports, drop the resulting Quicktime movie into iDVD (not into a drop zone, into the background of whatever "Theme" you choose). Your FCE project's title should then appear in the iDVD theme along with a Scene Selection button for your Chapter Markers. That button will lead to other Scene Selection screens (six scenes per screen).
CUSTOMIZING YOUR PROJECT IN iDVD:
Any digital photo or other image file (Tiffs preferred) that you drop into an iDVD Theme's background will become the new background image, and you can also replace a theme's music with a music of your own. In this way you can customize and personalize any iDVD theme.
BURNING YOUR iDVD PROJECT TO A DVD
After you get everything looking and working the way you want it in iDVD, I advise burning it as a disk image first, so you can examine and test it with DVD Player before burning it to a DVD. If you're satisfied with it, you can use Toast in its Copy mode to burn the disk image to a DVD.
Tom B.

Chapters for iDVD 7.1.1

Hello everybody...
Got a question regarding chapters in iDVD. I edited a movie in FCP and created a serie of chapter markers on it and also export them as chapters markers as well. If I understand correctly when importing the movie into the iDVD menu the program should automatically create 2 buttons. One for the movie itself and another one as a selection of scenes that would link to a menu for selecting the scenes. At least that is what the iDVD helpmenu says...
It´s not happening.. So what should I do to make the chapters markers that I created in FCP work in iDVD?
Thanks a lot

Hi
I edited a movie in FCP and created a serie of chapter markers on it and also export them as chapters markers as well.
I understands this as that You actively select to Export with Chapter Marks ? OK ?
Many forget to do this in the Export window - or select Export with Marks - Not with Chaper Marks (important)
I do from FCE/P do like this.
(Copy from earlier answer to others)
*FCE/P to iDVD*
Several things
• How to go from FCE/P to iDVD
• Free space on Start-up hard disk
• Encoding
• Brand and type of DVDs used
• Burn speed set
• iDVD BUG
• Chapters
*How to go from FCE/P to iDVD I do*
• Disable Screen and Energy saver
• IMPORTANT --> FIRST in FinalCut - Mix Down Audio under Sequence Menu / Render Only / Mixdown
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Select with Mark - Chapter Mark
• Not as Self-Contained (not important but saves time and space)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (IMPORTANT)
This QT.mov file I import into iDVD from within iDVD.
*Free space on Start-up hard disk*
I set a minimum of 25GB (for Mac OS and iDVDs temp files)
Encoding
• I use Pro Quality encoding
*Brand and type of DVDs used*
• I use Verbatim
• I use DVD-R
*Burn speed set*
• I set down this to x4 (or x1)
*iDVD BUG*
• One can not go back to movie-project for any alterations and then go back to
the iDVD project. It will notice and ask You to either Up-date or Cancel. Neither
of them will work.
Medicine - Start a brand new iDVD project.
*Use of Chapters*
• I only use a to z and 0 to 9 in naming them. NO other symbol/letter !
• NO Chapter-mark at very beginning - iDVD NEEDS TO set this by it stlf
• No Chapter marks in or within two seconds from a transition
(Way around this last one - Export movie as QT full quality and NO Chapter marks
Import this into a new Movie-project and now You are free to set C-Ms where You want
them except at very beginning - still)
*Material used to build movie*
• video - I use streamingDV (or convert all other to this eg .mp4, .avi, .wmv etc)
• audio - I use .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or from Audio-CD (44.1kHz) - no .mp3 or direct from iTunes
• photos - I use .jpg - no .bmp etc
Trash iDVD pref file and run Repair Permissions - and have a re-try.
from post ??
May not be relevant, but I had the same problem with iDVD, where burned DVDs showed a green screen. It was cured by quitting Quicksilver and Quickeys as well as disabling sleep and screensaving
Yours Bengt W

IDVD 4 says iMovie is too big

I am taking my VHS home movies and converting them to DVD via iMovie and iDVD. I have been putting four tapes (they are short) on one DVD. The longest total amout of time for any four tapes combined is about 90 minutes. I've done about six so far all exactly the same way. Now all of a sudden, when I've put five chapters (from iMovie) instead of four I get a message that I've exceeded the maximum for the DVD. That is not true, it is only 87 minutes. I have changed the preferences to NOT limit me to 60 minutes (whichever one that is) and I still get the same messaage. I have taken my project down to two chapters totalling about 25 minutes and I still get the same message: that it is too much. I've tossed the .plist for both iMovie and iDVD. Done a restart. Still it persists. It will not burn a DVD of any size because it thinks (falsely) that it is too big. Can anyone help? I need the chapters, by the way, so exporting it as one QT movie is out. I could export it as five QT movies and then assemble it in iDVD, but that is too much trouble. It was working so well. I'm using iDVD 4.01 and iMovie 4. Thanks in advance.
G5/2500 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2 Gigs RAM
G4/500 Mac OS 9.2.x
G4/500 Mac OS 9.2.x

No, I didn't want to "spank" anyone. I received the same response from different posts. Everyone wanted me to check the preferences, etc. I suppose it is a fairly common problem that has a very common fix. My problem was different. I appreciate the help.
In the end, I suppose I should get the "spanking". I assumed that iDVD would only burn the chapters I selected. To make a long story short, I had five movies in iMovie, but I only placed three of them into iDVD as chapters. I forgot that iDVD would not make a distinction. It would always try to cram the entire movie onto a DVD.
My bad. It works fine now! By the way, I use a device made by Formac. Go to:
http://www.formac.co.uk/html/products/av/stud_1.htm
They sell it in North America, too, although it is a UK link.
Thanks,
Mike

Why does iDVD keep giving me a multiplexing error and ejects my DVD?

I have tried several times to create a simple movie with iMovie and iDVD. Both are from the iLife 6.0 series. Each time, the movie imports to iDVD okay, goes through all the asset encoding just fine, and when it get to multiplexing and burning, it stops with a message saying there was something wrong with the multiplexing or asset encoding and ejects the DVD. Help. I am at my wits end with this.
dennis

Hi
Multiplex Error - is one of the most complex error to run into - can be so much
see (especially new info at end of list)
MULTIPLEX ERROR !
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
B. Location of Chapters
• Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
• Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
This gives good DVDs
PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev. (Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
• Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
• No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
• No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
• On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Max Mccarty
Mar 29, 2013 7:55 PM
I've made literally hundreds of DVD's using iDVD and I occasionally get the dreaded "Multiplex Error". In the past changing the position of chapter markers has worked, but sometimes the only way I can get the DVD to burn is to remove all the chapter markers (not a great solution).
Recently, I've discovered a bug in iDVD that creates the "Muliplex Error" message and it may be the cause of some of my previous problems. Sometimes when you export a movie to iDVD with chapters, it will create chapter menus with incredibly long playing times. My most recent "Multiplex Error" project had two chapter menus. I have a 38 second audio clip that I use for my DVD menus and the first menu showed the correct time of 38 seconds (select View>Show Inspector). The second menu with the same audio clip showed 13 minutes and 42 seconds! When I went to the Project Info window (select Project>Project Info) it now showed the total size of my DVD as 4.8 GB, too big for iDVD to encode. So, I manually adjusted the time of the second menu to 38 seconds. This time without changing anything else, iDVD burned the disk perfectly.
The interesting thing is that when I began the burn, the project info showed under 4GB for my disk. So, from now on I'll check the playing times of each menu before I burn.
Yours Bengt W

Sharing a file from iMovie to iDVD

I've created a movie in iMovie. I click "share" and "iDVD." it takes a few minutes and creates the movie and finally iDVD opens. As soon as it opens I get a "ding" and a window comes up saying "missing Files"...the rollowing files could not be found: /private/var/folders/43/43bTcdKwELG7cKshNoSAr+++TI/-Tmp The type of file says "picture." i have 2 options..."cancel" or "find file." I click find file, it opens up a window to look for it and I obviulsy have no clue where it is and running searches on the computer can't find it either. I'm going nuts now.
I have a 2.16GHz Inter Core 2 Duo with 1.5GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I don't know a lot about computer so if you're got any pointers, please pretend your helping your mother. or grandmother. lol. I'm 35 and use computers a lot but not good no the back-end of things. That what she said. save it. help a brother out here, would 'ya?

I know, it's odd.
Or I'm incredibly stupid, which...
I imported my iMovie into iDVD with chapters marked. When I went to burn the dvd after selecting my theme, a warning popped up that said something like, "There are problems that were mentioned if you continue it won't work". When I clicked on the map, there was a theme file that I had clicked on inadvertently while working with the actually theme I had chosen, that somehow ended up connected to my chapters. In the map, it went from My opening theme, then branched out, one to the full film and the other branch went to this errant theme-file thing, and from the errant theme file thing was the branch that connected all my chapters. If I try to delete this theme (the 'my trip to Venice' one) it takes all my chapters with it (they too are deleted) because of the connected branch.
I will most happily except stupidity if this 'thorn' could be removed from my iDVD.
Thanks so much!!!

Multiplexer Error on a 8GB disk burn or Disk image, iDVD

Burning 4.5GB DVDs burns fine.
While trying to burn a 8GB DVD or creating a disk image on iDVD I receive a "Multiplexer Error".
Another time, it burned and with about 3 minutes left the disk popped out of the computer although on the computer it appeared to still be burning. When I put this disk in a DVD player the chapter titles are mixed up with the actual video that plays and the same video is played over various chapters.
I tried changing the burning speed to 2X and tried using an external DVD burner.
Would appreciate any ideas!
Thanks

Sorry that I can not make a shorter answer !
Hi
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
B. Location of Chapters
Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
This gives good DVDs
PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev. (Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Max Mccarty
Mar 29, 2013 7:55 PM
I've made literally hundreds of DVD's using iDVD and I occasionally get the dreaded "Multiplex Error". In the past changing the position of chapter markers has worked, but sometimes the only way I can get the DVD to burn is to remove all the chapter markers (not a great solution).
Recently, I've discovered a bug in iDVD that creates the "Muliplex Error" message and it may be the cause of some of my previous problems. Sometimes when you export a movie to iDVD with chapters, it will create chapter menus with incredibly long playing times. My most recent "Multiplex Error" project had two chapter menus. I have a 38 second audio clip that I use for my DVD menus and the first menu showed the correct time of 38 seconds (select View>Show Inspector). The second menu with the same audio clip showed 13 minutes and 42 seconds! When I went to the Project Info window (select Project>Project Info) it now showed the total size of my DVD as 4.8 GB, too big for iDVD to encode. So, I manually adjusted the time of the second menu to 38 seconds. This time without changing anything else, iDVD burned the disk perfectly.
The interesting thing is that when I began the burn, the project info showed under 4GB for my disk. So, from now on I'll check the playing times of each menu before I burn.
Yours Bengt W

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