IDVD on a superdrive

I read other posts regarding what im going to ask, but none seem to be applicable to my computer. Having said that, my problem is that I want to burn a DVD on iDVD that is 4.6 GB... I tried using that french patch, but it seems not to work for the iDVD on my computer (i have a powerbook with a superdrive). If there is any way to expand the max from 4GB to 8GB on a non DL computer..any info about how to go about doing that would be much appreciated. (the movie from iMovie is a little less that 2 hours)

If your movie is less than two hours ... is your concern that drop zone movies etc will run up the time?
I have successfully created a DVD project where total media (movie, drop zones, audio, etc) was about 1 hr 56 min and burned it onto a regualar, single layer DVD
I don't necessarily reccomend that, but it works
Or, can you go back and do a little trimming of your project?
Probably easier than fiddlin around with patches, etc
Just my thoughts

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Burning a project from imovie to a dvd using idvd with no superdrive

Hi i have a mini mac and i have made a movie in imovie and put it on to a project in idvd i had it all and ready to burn to a dvd and it wont let me it keeps saying that i dont have a superdrive and i need an external burning device??? i have a pye video vhs to dvd burner that plays dvds and vhs's will this work?? if not what do i need?? and how do i do it???? completly new to mac!! please help!!!!

step one:
Burn a disc image to the desktop from iDvd's file menu. That doesn't require an S-Drive.
step two:
Connect an external burner to your mac and then burn the disc image to Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, or Maxell Dvd-r at 4x.
or
Connect your mac to another mac with an S-Drive via FW cable or save the disc image to an ext. hdd and then take that external device to the mac you wish to use to burn the disc image to dvd-r.

Idvd not recognizing superdrive

Something happened recently, I'm not sure what. Recently itunes didn't recognize the superdrive, and now IDVD doesn't either. Maybe I installed an update that messed up something, I can't recall. I burned a dvd on it a couple of months ago so I know it used to work. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Check under the Apple - About this Mac - and click through until you see details about your hardware. You can see at that level if your Mac recognizes the superdrive.
For general maintenance, I use MacJanitor (free) to trigger the Mac's maintenance scripts and then use Apple Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You might get better response over in the Hardware forum.
John

Idvd w/ no superdrive

okay, being the idiot i am I didn't think too look and see if the macbook came with a dvd burner, so needless to say, i do not have a superdrive.
I would like to burn a slideshow from idvd is there anyway that i can hook up my computer with my moms windows laptop and use her dvd burner from my computer. or do i just need to buy and external burner.
any help is appreciated. thanks

You could create a small network to connect to the other computer. However, Windows cannot read iDVD files (tested it).
You have to possibilities: Buy an external Drive or create the slideshow on the Windows machine. IIRC, there is a (very) simple Video editor built into Windows that would be fine for your task.

How to burn iDVD without a superdrive

When I open iDVD I get the message "Your Macintosh does not have a supported SuperDrive. Please note that while you are able to work with iDVD projects, you will not be able to burn a disk."
Does anybody know my options here? How can I burn this movie I made? Can I send it to my pc that has a dvd burner? In what format?

Rich's disc image option is a good one (there have been some reported file format problems, but try the disc image solution). An external drive or a replacement optical drive for your Mac are both reasonable alternatives. Another type of option is a VideoCD - it puts your video onto a CD at roughly VHS quality. These VideoCDs were very popular is Asia and other places and many DVD players in the US also can play them. The obvious tradeoff is lower image quality and shorter productions. Roxio Toast (for the Mac) can create these -- here's what they say:
"A Video CD holds approximately 60 minutes of video or slideshows and
offers good quality, but menu navigation is limited. This CD can be played
in most set-top DVD players. Consult your DVD player manual to see if it
supports Video CD playback. This is the best choice for a video disc if you
only have a CD recorder in your Mac."
Toast can also do Super VideoCDs (20 min max).
John

Does iDVD require internal Superdrive?

I will need to replace my superdrive which has recently died. My options are to replace and upgrade the internal Superdrive or purchase an external CD/DVD reader/burner. I have read that to use iDVD I would have to replace the internal Superdrive. Is that true? Or is it possible to purchase an external burner and still use iDVD?
Thanks for any help on this question.

is it possible to purchase an external burner and still use iDVD?
Yes, but check carefully that it will work with your Mac and OS, preferably by seeing an actual demonstration of it working on your Mac before buying it.

IDVD w/out superdrive

Hey All,
I have a new ibook w/Idvd 5
I created a project to be presented using a digital projector and audio system using my ibook... When I go to preview my idvd project, it never goes full screen!!! is there a way for me to create an Idvd project that will be able to be presented full screen without burning it to DVD?
Cheers,
Chad

Hi Chad,
I have 2 suggestions:
Use the File > Save As Disk Image to save your project as a disk image file. Then use Apple DVD Player to view your image file in full screen
If your original movie is made in iMovie, use iMovie's Share > QuickTime to export the movie as QT movie, then use QT Player (you need QT Pro to play in full screen).

Suggestion request for creating a DVD with iMovie 4, but no iDVD

...or even a DVD burner. Sounds stupid, right? Allow me to explain.
I recently filmed a wedding for a friend using a borrowed Panasonic MiniDV camcorder.
My girlfriend has an iBook G4 with iMovie 4.0.1. However, she doesn't have iDVD...because she didn't purchase a superdrive with this machine. Only the standard combo drive.
Without knowing or thinking about any of this (this is where I was completely stupid) I successfully imported and edited the wedding footage. The final time clocked out at an hour and a half. I had a grand old time doing it, until I started thinking about how I would get this to DVD. I have since returned the borrowed camcorder.
Do you think it is possible or even advisable for me to:
a) not purchase iDVD or a DVD burner as this is most likely the only video project I'll ever work on
b) Export the movie in the highest quality format as possible
c) Transfer said file to an external hard drive (which I would be willing to purchase as I would have other applications for it later)
d) Bring it to a public facility in my town (like Screenz) that has iMovie, iDVD, and a superdrive and burn it there. Of course I realize that depending on the quality I export at, this could take several hours to do, but if it could be successful I'd have no problem doing so. I also realize I should scope them out and determine what versions they have.
Your thoughts? Should I attempt this? Need more info?
Thanks so much for your suggestions! Call me an idiot if you need to. I have no pride in this matter.

Should I attempt this? Need more info?
... hm, don't know the folks of Screenz, wether they allow to "use" their machines without a fee... but, why not giving it a try?
.. buy the ext. harddrive there... makes you a "friend" & good customer..
after purchasing the drive...
* make sure, it has a firewire connection (=100% compatibility)
* connect drive, power on...
* launch Disk Utility from your Utilities Folder...
* select drive
* choose in drop-down menu "MacOsExtended/hfs", give a nice name..
THEN, export your project, share/Quicktime/Full Quality...
AND drag'n drop your iM project (that with the star icon) onto drive
File 1 is in case, for some reasons, File 2 isn't accepted.. the qt.mov could be imported into any iDVD version...
File 2 is in case, they have versions which accept your iMproject folder (any iDVD4 - 6 should do so); this file keeps chapter markers, in case you use one; and stills have probably a slightly better quality... then, you launch iDVD, choose a nice theme, drag'n drop the iM from your hd to iDVD window...
try to get access to some "überMac", Intel quadcore 4GB RAM ... then, iDVD creation is done with your 90min project in less then 15minutes....
buy Verbatim dvd-r, no second try needed..

What's actually IN a saved iDVD project?

After upgrading to iLife '06, I wanted to burn a new copy of an iMovie project I first put on iDVD a few weeks ago. I've never done this before; always burned all copies at once.
When I open the named/saved iDVD project (both from within Documents and via Open Recent), it shows me empty Drop Zones and a blank menu. Where's the theme/audio etc. I put together when I first created the project?
Thanks.

It is easiest to duplicate a video-DVD with Toast (i.e. a 3rd party app).
With the Disk Utility it is very easy to accidentally burn a data-DVD (instead of a video-DVD), so follow these instructions strictly:
- Using Disk Utility (Mac OS X 10.3 and higher):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
1. Insert the DVD-R video disc that you created with iDVD into the SuperDrive.
2. Open the Disk Utility application (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility).
3. Select the disc (not just the disc session) you want to copy from the listing.
4. From the Images menu, choose New and the choose Image from "your disk name".
5. Type a file name and choose "DVD/CD Master" from the Image Format pop-up menu.
6. Click the Create button. After the image has been created you should see it in the disk listing in the Disk Utility window.
7. Eject the DVD-R video disc.
8. Select the disk image you created from the listing (that *.img is also mounted on the Desktop).
9. Click the Burn icon in the toolbar.
10. When prompted, insert a blank DVD-R disc.
11. Click the Burn button.

Problems with burning HDV projects to IDVD

I have been using iDVD to burn my HDV sequences and it has been working great. Just recently when I burn a DVD it comes up with a green band at the bottom of the DVD. It doesn't happen with SD projects. I just upgreaded to Ilife 8 and upgraded my operating system to 10.4.11, does anyone know if there is a problem with this and why all of a sudden I can't burn an a DVD.

Hi iRose,
Thanks for giving all your info. Your free space on your hard drive is not enough to do a successful burn of the entire iPhoto Library. Do you have an external drive? Is your drive supported for iPhoto burning? usually on the internal that comes with the computer is supported.
Try instead to burn the entire iPhoto Library folder in the Finder using your external burner.
Close iPhoto
I can't burn a Cd or DVD
The next info is from iPhoto FAQ on the Apple site
Question 5: Can I burn a CD or DVD to back up my iPhoto library?
Answer: Yes, you can easily back up your iPhoto library by using the CD burning capabilities of Mac OS X. Simply insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use iDVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac.
Lori

Loss of photos in iPhoto

I will give you the background story. I have been working on an iMovie, which I then finished with iDVD. My superdrive is non functional due to an "accident" by my children. So, I went to a local Apple Reseller. We tried several things, including putting my Mac on the network, turning my Mac into a Firewire drive. But we kept having problems. We were trying to use a new Mac Book Pro, 15 in. We ended up just plugging up an external DVD burner, which worked great. I was finally done after all the work. I then shut down my Mac, and dive home. I turn back on the Mac, open iPhoto, and NO photos!! I tried all of the mentioned things, loading iPhoto in different ways, rebuilding, and deleting the .pls file...nothing. I have over 6500 photos. I have found the photos in a directory, and have tried to import them but keep getting the error message: "Unreadable files" The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data) But, I can open the files in preview with no problems, and they are .jpg files. I was able to drop and drag about 40 photos, but that is all. Please help!! Thanks

Hi there,
If all else fails, you can try this...
Open a photo you know that you CANNOT import into iPhoto in Preview, if it opens successfully, do a "Save As", save to any folder (or dektop) you wish, rename it, and make sure you save as a jpeg or tiff. Also save at highest "quality" in jpeg. Afterwards, drag newly renamed and saved image into iPhoto and see if that helps it import... if it does you can do the same things to all the others. The problem maybe the name, some kind of change to the orginal image or structure that iPhoto cannot interpret.
Good luck, Rick
iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD & Hot Pink Nano 4G - WD 500G FW - Mac OS X (10.4.8) - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620 Kodak P880

Problems with burning iPhoto library to DVD

When I try to burn my iPhoto library to a DVD, iPhoto eventually always crashes.
iPhoto will prepare to burn and the window to select output drive, spee, etc. will com up. After clicking on "burn", iPhoto is always end.
What could be wrong?
Is my iPhoto library maybe corrupted?
If yes, can I do something about it?
Infos:
iBook G4, 640 RAM, HD 30GB (3.72 available), OSX Tiger, external LACIE d2 DUAL DVD+-RW DRIVE, iPhoto library: 3.53 GB
Thanks for any help!

Hi iRose,
Thanks for giving all your info. Your free space on your hard drive is not enough to do a successful burn of the entire iPhoto Library. Do you have an external drive? Is your drive supported for iPhoto burning? usually on the internal that comes with the computer is supported.
Try instead to burn the entire iPhoto Library folder in the Finder using your external burner.
Close iPhoto
I can't burn a Cd or DVD
The next info is from iPhoto FAQ on the Apple site
Question 5: Can I burn a CD or DVD to back up my iPhoto library?
Answer: Yes, you can easily back up your iPhoto library by using the CD burning capabilities of Mac OS X. Simply insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use iDVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac.
Lori

Messed up my library!!

I'm a fool!
Stupidly, I've messed up my photo heirachy.
I decided to use Backup 3.01 (the .Mac application) and clicked on the iPhoto quick key. It backed up quite fast so I thought I'd check the size. It was only about a Gbt. When I pressed get info on the user/pictures icon it showed about 8Gig.
So. I entered the dreaded user/pictures folder (big mistake) and it had a lot of albums and other weird named stuff, several years and a photo library folder and another photo library_1 folder. (the larger of the two - probably more recent?)
The photolibrary folder was exactly the size of the Backup target.
So. I decided to rearrange everything. I moved everything from the photolibrary into the photolibrary_1 and moved the photolibrary to the trash, then renamed photolibrary_1 as Photolibrary so that the Backup would find the right 'target'
Now I just get the frame outline of the photos and no content.
Is this recoverable?
Thanks.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

hi Steve,
looks like you have fun in that folder!
First thing to tell you. Don't trust Backup to backup your iPhoto Library. I don't. I manually burn my iPhoto Library folder in the finder to DVD, copy the iPhoto Library folder to my iPod and copy the same library to my iBook. if you have an external drive you would copy the entire iPhoto Library folder to the external. Backup.app does a full backup first, then incremental backups. I am not comfortable with that for some reason.
Backing up your iPhoto Library
1. Burn the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to a CD or DVD
This method will give you a burned iPhoto Library folder that can be copied back to your computer to replace a damaged library. You can also use this method to backup an old library when you want to create a new Library to use as your current library.
insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use iDVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac
2. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to an external drive formated for a Mac. Do not use this as your only back up as the external can also go bad.
3. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to your iPod in disk mode
4.Creating your own CDs and DVDs for viewing in iPhoto
This method is a great way to back up Albums of older photos or even your entire library if it is small enough to fit on a DVD. This method will give you a library that will mount within iPhoto in the source column to be viewed. To import any images from this library they need to be dragged into your library in the source column.
Second thing, if you go into your Pictures folder there is one iPhoto Library folder there by default. You had to have created another iPhoto Library at some point in time. do you remember doing that? It must have been when using an older version of iPhoto. I think doing a rebuild does that for you and the new rebuilt library has the _1 extension on it.
The Pictures folder you can put any other folders in with images, etc. these do not affect the iPhoto Library folder that iPhoto uses. The only thing you shouldn't touch is the iPhoto Library folder in the Pictures folder. iPhoto has its own way of organizing thing s and changing anything in that folder will, well, give you what you got.
Now to recover...it depends on what you mean by recover.
if you mean to get your library back to the same state it was in before, then that is a maybe. If you can put everything back in the same exact place, then yes, maybe iPhoto will open that library. Most likely not, but it wouldn't hurt to try.
I will post a screen shot online so you can see how it is organized and this will help you try and reconstruct it.
This is a view of how the iPhoto Library looks in the Finder.
It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also.
Once you reconstruct it, name it iPhoto Library and put it in the Pictures folder.
Launch iPhoto and it will try to open a folder called iPhoto Library by default if there are no other iPhoto Library folders in there.
Like I said, this is a long shot.
The easiest thing to do would bite the bullet and create a new library, then import the images from the messed up library.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and choose it.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!
Lori

Blank Photo Library

Something happened to my iphoto library today. I had about 281 total photos on it. Anyway it only loads the blank outlines of the all the photos. So I looked into the library folders, I believe there is three major folders, (i.e 2003,2004, etc) and it now says that the pics are corrupted and preview doesnt recognize format or something similar to that.
In Iphoto it just has all the blank photo outlines with no actual photo. Also my desktop, and screensaver which were pictures have all stopped working as well. When I look under Preferences it says none of the folders contain photos anymore.
If anyone has some ideas that would really be appreciated. Thank you.
IBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

First let's create a new library and see if any images will import.If there are any good images still left in the old library they will import into the new library.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and choose it.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!
If the new library didn't import any images from the old library, then you can delete the old library. Import your images from backup now. Then backup the ENTIRE iPhoto Library.
Backing up your iPhoto Library
1. Burn the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to a CD or DVD
This method will give you a burned iPhoto Library folder that can be copied back to your computer to replace a damaged library. You can also use this method to backup an old library when you want to create a new Library to use as your current library.
insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use iDVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac
2. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to an external drive formated for a Mac. Do not use this as your only back up as the external can also go bad.
3. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to your iPod in disk mode
4.Creating your own CDs and DVDs for viewing in iPhoto
This method is a great way to back up Albums of older photos or even your entire library if it is small enough to fit on a DVD. This method will give you a library that will mount within iPhoto in the source column to be viewed. To import any images from this library they need to be dragged into your library in the source column.
Lori

Video Editing on iBook

I'm currently considering to buy either a iBook 12" or a Powerbook 12".
Does the iBook 12" work well on video editing features? will it lag? is it too slow?
How does the iBook compare to the Mac Mini?
Thanks alot.

OFFICIALLY you can't burn to an image with idvd without a superdrive, however there is a little easter egg that when enabled allows you to burn to a wide range of external dvd writer drives and also enables you to burn ot a disc image.
This disc image could then be transferred to an external hard drive or over a network to your pc and then burnt using that.
another option if you already have a dvd writer drive in your pc is to buy a caddy and then use the writer drive as an external drive for both your pc and your mac.
Caddies are typically £40 - £60 so it may be better just to get a external dvd writer drive, something like a Lacie (which are very very good) can be had for around £80 I believe.

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