IDVD just disappearanced

I changed from panther to tiger and iDVD disappearanced. How can I get iDVD back since I got iLife when I bought a new G5 power mac

This may give you an idea.
Hui Cheng, "Converting to iDVD 5 from iDVD 4" #6, 09:31am Oct 13, 2005 CDT
For sure you'll need to install the iDVD.pkg, iDVDThemes.pkg and iDVD5Themes.pkg, maybe others.

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New iMac and iDVD just wont work!

All,
Just got a new iMac and iDVD just wont work, from creating a new project, or opening an old one, or trying to share from iMovie (HD)
If I try to do anything nothing seems to happen and when I close the program a window does appear and from there it just freezes.
Have deleted and reinstalled iDVD, repaired permissions, all up to date in my on software updates...any ideas?
Thanks
Zara

*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Program miss-match. iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes/ zzzzzzzzzz
or
Macintosh HD/Users/Your log-in//Library/Application Support/iDVD/Installed Themes/ zzzzzzzzzz
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Last resort. from Craig. Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
If You do a re-install be sure to get rid of all iDVD old parts AND then EMPTY the Trash-basket !
iDVD updated ?
Apple Codec updated ?
Start a New Clean project - or delete project assets
No of Colors - must be set to millions
EdinSF writes that, The 10.6.3 update with an Open GL fix seems to have taken care of the problem.
Yours Bengt W

Press "audio" in "media" and iDVD just disappears/shuts down

Hello folks,
This problem is perplexing me and I couldn't find something similar on previous posts.
I am trying to add audio to my DVD (photo and video is working fine) and when I click the audio button in the media area, the whole iDVD just disappears.
Can anyone help me with this? Also I'm having problems with adding music to my iPhoto slideshows, when before I had no problem.
can they be related?
Many thanks in advance...

the whole iDVD just disappears.
This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

IDVD just disappears (in the encoding phase) when creating a DVD

I have this problem on different themes and can occur when creating single as well as dual layer disks.
iDVD suddenly disappears and disk utility pops up (presumably because the blank DVD is now available to the OS).
I checked the console - though it's fairly meaningless to me - and found the following:
errors over and over
Jul 23 15:00:00 iMac [0x0-0x10d10d].com.apple.iDVD[2801]: 2010-07-23 15:00 iDVD[2801] (CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamCreate: watch_path: error trying to add kqueue for fd 143 (/Volumes/MEDIA/Lara Uniting Church/VIDEOLUC_HERSERV_2004/LUC_HERSERV2004; Operation not supported)
Jul 23 15:00:00 iMac [0x0-0x10d10d].com.apple.iDVD[2801]: 2010-07-23 15:00 iDVD[2801] (CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamCreate: watchallparents: error trying to add kqueue for fd 144 (/Volumes/MEDIA/Lara Uniting Church/VIDEOLUC_HERSERV2004; Operation not supported)
Jul 23 15:00:00 iMac [0x0-0x10d10d].com.apple.iDVD[2801]: 2010-07-23 15:00 iDVD[2801] (CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamCreate: watchallparents: error trying to add kqueue for fd 146 (/Volumes/MEDIA/Lara Uniting Church; Operation not supported)
Jul 23 15:00:00 iMac [0x0-0x10d10d].com.apple.iDVD[2801]: 2010-07-23 15:00 iDVD[2801] (CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamCreate: watchallparents: error trying to add kqueue for fd 148 (/Volumes/MEDIA; Operation not supported)
Please, what is going on and can I fix it somehow? It's no joke when this happens especially when you are on a deadline to produce the DVD.

Greetings,
Did you try my suggestions including the caches and plists?
When burning from iDVD, make sure Disk Utility is not open. Having two program running that access the DVD burner at the same time might add complexity to the issue.
Can ANYONE at APPLE confirm that this will NOT happen if I upgrade to iLIFE 09?????
As stated in the Terms of Use we all agreed to when signing up for the Discussions, this is a user forum for users to talk to users. To contact Apple: www.apple.com/contact
As the issue you described is not a known issue in any version of iDVD ever, it is not something that was "fixed" in any new release. However, reinstalling all the core components (like installing a new version or just reinstalling period) can resolve issues with the Application itself. If the issue is with the OS then reinstalling the iDVD Application (which didn't change much from '08 to '09) will not make much of a difference.
Try reinstalling iDVD: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3249
I would also suggest reseting the hardware of the computer itself:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

When rendering IDVD just crashes.

Hello All.
I have been trying to put a few iphoto slideshows and trailers on idvd.
I have tried sharing my iphoto slideshows to idvd and while rendering it just crashes.
I have tried several different times. I'm using the newest idvd in ilife 11.
I have also created two different idvd projects and it still fails.
It tells me nothing just crashes.
Thanks
Al

That should be enough for small projects.
What do you mean by 'crashes'? Does it appear to freeze? What?
Rather than burning to writable media, make tour 'burn' to a disk image file (an option under FILE in iDVD). This separates the encoding process from the burning process. Try this and let us know if it works.

Tried all I know, iDVD just won't open

Using a MacBook Pro on OS X 10.5.2
iDVD refuses to open.
1. I've repaired permissions (several times)
2. I've reinstalled iDVD (twice)
3. I've downloaded both the iDVD and iLife updates
4. Used CleanApp to clear iDVD off the machine and reinstalled the app
5. I've trashed the pref file (several times)
What can I do???

If you have any non-standard QT plugins /components installed on your laptop (ie, Perian http://perian.org/), then please remove them at this time.
You can use this handy apple utility to do this procedure:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/appdelete.html
If this doesn't help, then please call apple support directly. Speak to level one and request a case number from the beginning..... if they can't help you resolve this quickly; then ask for a level two tech and make certain to confirm your case number on this issue. Your case number is considered confidential information between you and apple only. Please do not disclose this number / info on apple discussions and forums. Hopefully we can resolve this quickly.
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Please help!! iDVD just won't BURN!!!

This is crazy. I have a nice DVD with 3 motian menus. I put in a disc and click burn. It encodes the menus, slide shows, moives - no problem. I actully thought it would work. It said it did so I put it in my DVD player and it says "No disc" I put it back in my G5 and all it is is blank DVD.
I had a problem like this with a DVD a few weeks ago but I ended up burning 25 copies. I tried the same things I did with the last one, clear up alot of space, best quality. It doesn't work!
Someone please help, I'm like under a deadline type thing. I need to give this DVD to a friend who will be leaving soon.....

Hello Pop7,
when you insert a writable DVD (or CD for that matter), your burner will perform a calibration to adapt to the media. The "Power Calibration Error" may indicate one of the following problems:
1. You have a compatibility issue between the burner and the DVD media. In that case, try another brand. The DVD media of choice on this board is Verbatim DVD-R 1-4x. IMHO Ritek is another good choice. You might want to check compatibility on the xlr8yourmac database:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
2. Your burner's lens has become dirty. In that case, try cleaning with a specific cleaning disc
3. Your burner might have some defect. In that case (and I hope it's not the case), you'll have to either get it repaired, or you'll have to replace it.
Also have a look at this: About optical disc drive burning and write speeds
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301551
hope this helps
mish

IDVD just freezes when burning my DVD

I don't get it! Everytime I try to burn this thing, it encodes it forever, and then the spinning beachball comes up. This continues FOREVER. I hit ctr-apple esc and it says "Not responding"
Can anyone tell me what is going on and how I might be able to get this working?

then the spinning beachball comes up.
During audio encoding?:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988

My iDVD 8 just stopped working.

iDvD just stopped working. I had used it an hour before to create two disks and then it gave "application not responding". I shutdown, I unplugged it for 30 minutes, I reinstalled the software nothing seems to work. Now iPhoto isn't working. I installed iLife 11 four months ago and everything seemed to work fine. Hardware passed all of its diagnostics and the operating system is up to date as are all the other updates. If any one has some advise I would appreciate the asset.

Hi
Just a thought - If You use Activity Monitor - or Panic Halt - iDVD will most often report
"application not responding" - AND THIS IS A LIE !
It's only so that it is 100% occupied and have no time with AC or PH at all. Just leaving it - and it usually reach goal at last.
Yours Bengt W

IDVD doesn't respond after it says "Done" at the end of Burning

Firstly, I have burn many, many, MANY DVD's before in iDVD (for school camps, special occasions, etc.) and have met this problem before, but in a different way. Those times I was burning about 20 copies, and after about 7 or 8, it would say this problem. My solution was to press cancel, then start burning again IMMEDIATELY, and it would work again.
The Problem: that when burning a DVD (it's a project on Apple as a company. Kinda ironic, because it's all about how fantastic they are, and then this happens). What happens, is that iDVD processes the movies, menus, slideshows, etc. and then gets to the "Burn" part of the burning. Here, the process bar is slowly moving forward, and after about 5 minutes of burning (very normal for my mac) it ejects; BUT!: the menu left on iDVD stays on the "Done" screen forever (at the end of the burning, the remaining time is Done). I checked on my other computer and again on my mac, and it is positively blank (the drive also didn't make as much noise as it usually does when burning). This may have something to do with that it is the first time I have exported a Keynote to a QuickTime, and then put it into iDVD (and I also put some "Get a Mac" ads off the Apple website on it). I asked a good friend of mine about this, and suggested that I put the ads into iMovie '09 and then export into iDVD, just so that they are all definitely the same format, but it didn't work AGAIN! So I put the ads into Keynote, deleted them from iDVD, re-exported them and failed to burn AGAIN X 2! HHEELLPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update: The problem still occurs, but I had the project due in today, so I put the quicktime of the Keynote on a flash-drive and ran it off my School computer (not a mac... unfortunatley).

How do I burn a iDVD project on more than one computer?

I created an iDVD (7.1.2) project with three elements. Two iMovies made from iMovie '11 and a presentation made from Keynote (5.1.1).
I deleted the chapters in the slide show to help simplify matters and it did cut down on my burning/processing time.
I made this iDVD project for my son's 5th grade graduation. We would like to burn 135 copies to give each family one 'favor/dvd' for memory keepsake.
I do not want to burn 135 copies on my Superdrive (new to owning a mac) and do not want to ruin my Superdrive for a school project.
I can not take this to a commericial duplicater because of copyright issues with the music. We are not selling the copies, just giving a memory keepsake to the kids- of the year and the slide show from graduation, the other iMovie in iDVD, just contains one page of specifications; like my contact info and songs used etc..
I have parents that are willing to help me copy the movie, however I don't know how to do this?
I don't believe any of these parents have iDVD.
Someone mentioned through all my readings on apple communities and google, making an "ISO" of your project then anyone can make a copy of your movie on any platform: PC or Mac. What is an ISO? How do I make a ISO?
If I have a .img file from saving a disc image - would I burn the .img file to a dvd and give it to someone else to copy? Are there other files that need to go with my .img file?
If/When someone takes my .img file and puts it on their computer how do they copy it? Do they need burning software?
Can I just give a friend a burned DVD of my movie to burn copies on their computer?
What I tried: Bought a LaCie burner to use a external drive vs. my (Superdrive - worried about overuse). Saved project as a "Disc Image." Mounted to my Finder and then burned to external drive with disc utility. This worked successfully 4 times in a row then kept getting message "unsuccessful burn" I took the drive back to Fry's. Not sure if it was the drive?
Any advice to a newcomer would be great!
Summer has already begun and I would like to finish this project as soon as I can.
Thanks so much, Deanna

Yes, you can distribute a burned disk of the project to those who can create duplicate disks. Or create a disk image of the iDVD project using the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option.
Then you can distribute the disk image to those who will burn the disks. For PCs you'll have to convert the .dmg file to a .iso file so they can burn it. This website describer how: Mac Help - Convert and Burn Mac .dmg or .img to .iso Windows PC-Compatible Disk Image
Suggest to them to burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
It would be prudent to rest your optical drive for about 30 minutes after burning 3 disks in a row. That will give the laser time to cool down before you start another batch.
OT

IDVD 08 is a bummer. How do I return to an older version?

I had iLife 04 on my Mac for ages, but I just bought and installed iLife 08.
Mistake!
IDVD 08 will not open any of my old iDVD projects; it just sits there with the beachball spinning or doing nothing at all. All the old projects now have the blue and white iDVD 08 icon, but they don't open. Likewise "Open Previous Project" doesn't work.
So, I attempted to recreate some of my old projects in iDVD 08 by dumping the Quicktime movies that were originally used to create the old iDVD 4 projects (QuickTime movies that were exported from Final Cut Express), but I can't seem to drag and drop them into iDVD's background like I could with iDVD 4. When I drag the icon of the QT movie over into iDVD's window, the + sign does not appear, indicating that it's ready to drop, and when I let go of the mouse button, the QT movie's icon returns to the folder where the file resides.
Most of the time, when trying to open or create any project, iDVD just sits there with its beachball spinning, or does nothing at all, so that I have to force-quit it (and then I trash the .plist).
This version of iDVD seems like a real bummer. I can't get it to do anything.
How do I return to iDVD 4? Can I Trash iDVD 08 and then reinstall iDVD 04 from the iLife 04 DVD?
Tom

Very rarely do I recommend reverting to an older version of iLife once the current version is already installed. But in your own situation, perhaps this is best ..... given the fact apple's iLife'08 isn't intended for a G4. You need a G5 or better for iMovie apparently within iLife 08. iDVD's system requirements call for at least a G4 733. But I haven't seen anyone post on this iDVD forum who has the latest version of iDVD successfully running on a G4.
Use the following app at your own risk to remove iDVD:
http://appzapper.com/
Good luck!

IDVD problem burning and multiplexing - gets stuck but ejects the DVD and the DVD doesn't play

I am having trouble burning DVDs. Everything seems to be working fine during the iDVD project creation. I can watch the movie and select scenes within iDVD. Then, when I go to burn the DVD, it gets stuck at the burning/multiplexing stage - the wheel just keeps spinning and says there is about a minute left. Yet it ejects the DVD and the DVD won't play when inserted into a DVD player. It will show the intro and the scene selection pages but when you click on one of the scenes, it gets stuck and doesn't play. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled iDVD. The problem persists. It seems like the burner itself is the problem. What can I do to fix it? I have Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 with a 2.8 GHzintel Core 2 Duo and iDVD version 7.0.4.

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
Yours Bengt W

IDVD ejects during multiplexing and burning

Hi folks,
I've used iDVD previously (several times) to create DVDs of movies I've created in FCE4. Today, the program goes so far, then ejects the disk during the "multiplexing and burning" / "writing lead-in" portion. When I check, there's nothing on the disk. Anyone every experience this? And, if you know, please advise as to how I might fix the problem.
Thanks very much for your expertise.
Vic

Multiplexing Error
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
Yours Bengt W

Making a DVD in IDVD

Ok I have tried to make a DVD with IDVD about 14 different setting and they all have something wrong with the DVD. The fonts look like someone had eaten about the edges, or the whites have little spike lines in them. the wipes would look like I didn't have a background color or black spike lines. Sometimes the motion in the video would have a blur when people would walk or drive.
Now before you say I did something wrong! I took the one of the same bad compression and put in DVD pro and it looks great. I just like the some of the themes in iDVD. Is iDVD just that bad of a burning program.
zoman

Navcat48 wrote:
I thought that I needed to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD.
Are you saying that if I have a project with HD video, I do not need to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD?
Tom Wolsky said you don't need to use DV and (of course) he's right.
In my original reply I said use DV since that's what you shot.
If you had shot some HD format and had "optimized" the clips to Pro Res, iDVD would be happy with that too. And so forth.
I also said I didn't know the answer to your chapter marker question (which I do understand). And I can't test until later.
Russ

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