IDVD music problem

I exported a slideshow from iPhoto to iDVD and have problems with the music being distorted.

Hi
Got this too - and by opening the audio I found it to be to strong - decreasing the volume by 9db and re-do the DVD it played just fine.
Yours Bengt W

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Hi John,
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My father has been working on creating a DVD with 8 decades with of family still photos.
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*No Audio*
Most common origin is use of audio from iTunes.
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• Copy out this as an Audio-CD .aiff (not .mp3)
• Use this in the movieproject
Other origins are
1. strange/ailient file formats as -
• .mp3, .avi, .wmv etc
• Convert them into .aiff 48kHz 16-bit and use this
2. the Mac is set wrongly in regard of midi -
• Close iMovie and other programs
• Start GarageBand
• Make a new GB-project and play some notes
• Close GB and Save
• Now try iMovie again
3. No audio when playback in iMovie 1 to HD 6.
a. in iMovie pref - deselect ”Playback via Camera”
b. in System preferences - see that Audio out is not set to zero. Mine often does this
without me knowing why.
Stuttering audio and video
1. FileVault is ON - Turn it off
2. More than 50 audio files in a movie-project
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3. Project is stored on one (USB) external hard disk - should be a FireWire one
4. the External hard disk is not Mac OS Extended formatted - but
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange and this will not work for Video.
5. To little free space on internal boot hard disk.
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Neither Mac OS, iMovie or iDVD can address any other hard disk than the boot drive for it’s
scratch files. (Unlike Final Cut Express/Pro where You select scratch disk/s)
6. Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
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I've searched for the answer to this problem in the threads but can't find it.
I have an odd problem with an iPhoto slideshow. I can set it all up correctly, but when I transfer it to iMovies to then burn a CD in Toast Titanium, only the first tune in the playlist plays. The music then stops. How do I get all the music to play continuously?
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Hi nodger13,
Only one song exporting with
Slideshows
Right now, this seems to be a know
problem/bug with iPhoto 5. There have been some
work-arounds. Don't know if the problem is with
iPhoto, Quicktime or a combo of both.
-From Bob
Worthington: re-ripping the cuts I wanted as
background music for the DVD as a single cut in
iTunes. I then made a playlist containing the one
extended cut of music.
-Old Toad: share to
Quicktime from iPhoto and then import the resulting
movie into iMovie you can extract and delete the
audio from the video and add the two songs to the
video and save.
Quicktime Pro-open the movie and bring up the Movie
Properties menu window. In the top window select the
audio track and delete it.
If you want more than
one song you'll have to join them together with
iMovie or some other application. Then open that
joined file with QT Player. Then do a select all and
copy. Now go to the QT window of the movie and select
the Edit->Add to Movie menu option. You don't want to
scale it because it will change the play speed of the
audio unless it's time is exactly the same as the
movie.
You could go the other way, open the movie,
select all and copy, and then past with scaling to
the audio. That will change the speed of the movie
and transitions to fit the audio track. In this case
the resulting video file will have the name of the
audio track file that you started with.
You may
have to play with it a bit to get exactly what you
want. Be sure to work with copies of all the media
files for the project.
-Peter Burtwistle: I
opened the Qt movie that iPhoto makes when you export
to iDVD and removed the sound track.
Then made a
new soundtrack by opening all three songs in QT, then
cutting and pasting them together.
Finally use QT
Pro's 'Add to Movie" option to add the soundtrack to
the original movie.
This worked well and was fast
to do too.
-Joe Lombardo: I ended up having
to extend the songs by 20 seconds so I brought them
all into GarageBand and made some edits. Then I
exported them all to iTunes as a single track and
used that for the slideshow
From scotty321 at MacOSXHints.com: If you have Roxio Toast Titanium
installed on your machine, you can join unprotected
tracks yourself by simulating a disc burn. Simply
take these steps:
Go to the Audio tab in Toast.
Drag your audio files from iTunes into Toast.
Reshuffle them in the proper order within Toast.
Go up to File: Save As Disc Image. Save your disc
image somewhere on your Desktop.
Choose Utilities: Mount Disc Image. The CD will mount
on your desktop, and iTunes will think that you just
inserted a CD.
Within iTunes, select the tracks that you want to
join and then use Advanced: Join CD Tracks.
Go through the import process, and you've got a
joined track! Simply rename the track to whatever you
want to call it, and you're good to go.
From Lori...
Burn the playlist in
iTunes.
Make sure you have itunes Prefs just open the Cd and
not automatically play or import the songs.
Insert the burned CD and iTunes will open.
Within iTunes, select the tracks that you want to
join and then use Advanced: Join CD Tracks.
Go to Advanced>convert selection to AAC.
When done, make a new playlist named after the
slideshow.
Put the new combined track into the playlist.
In iPhoto, select this playlist for your
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*No audio on DVD disc.*
Most common origin.
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• Use this in Your movie project
2 Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
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3 Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
4. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies—except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format—that I have noticed.
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
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