IDVD Scene Question

In iMovie, I have my movie separated into 4 scenes.....how do I import the 4 scenes from iMovie to iDVD to play as one continuous movie?

Do you mean you have 4 separate movies? Or do you have one iMovie with 4 chapters using chapter markers?
If you have 4 separate movies, you can import them into iDVD as 4 individual movies, and they will play separately. If you want them to play continuously, you need to put them all into one iMovie, use chapter markers to mark the beginning of each 'scene' (except for th first one which iDVD will do automatically).
When you then import the long iMovie into your iDVD project you will see the options to 'Play Movie' and 'Scene Selection' where the viewer can opt to view the entire movie or choose to have it begin at a particular scene. Just as commercial DVDs do, the movie will play from that selection to the end.
If you want to have the movie play as a continuous movie AND have each scene play separately without continuing the rest of the movie, you will need to put 5 movies into iDVD: the 4 'scenes' and the continuous one.

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IDVD Slideshow Question

I exported an iPhoto slideshow to iDVD. I used the Ken Burns effect. I've got around 200 photos and it plays great, no problems but....
heads have been cut off on three slides. Can I edit the individual slides right in iDVD or do I have to go back to iPhoto and then export all over again? That would be very time consuming.
17 iMac FP 1.25GHz, & PowerPC G3 Mac OS X (10.4.7) iDVD 5, iPhoto 5

Sorry but you have to go back to iPhoto for edits. If double-clicking a slideshow just plays the slideshow and doesn't bring up the slideshow editor, the slideshow may have been created in iPhoto. Slideshows created in iPhoto are sent to iDVD as QuickTime movies, which means you can't edit them.
If you want to make a change to an iPhoto slideshow, make the changes in iPhoto, send the slideshow to iDVD again, and replace the old slideshow with the new one.
Tip: In map view, slideshows created in iPhoto have a movie icon in the upper-left corner. iDVD slideshows have a slideshow icon.
Hope this answers your question.
SDMacuser

IPhoto/Slideshow/iDVD Basic Question

iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Wow so many questions! As I just said in your other thread, iPhoto and Fotomagico allow you to make a "movie" from your slideshow using more than 99 photos. One of my projects had 4 separate slideshows on the one disc - it was for a 50th birthday and had 3 segments: as a child, young married life, children etc. The whole project had well over 400 photos.
Other projects have 150 photos, 2 songs, and different transitions and titles (using Fotomagico) and are shared with iDVD so I can add the themes to make it more professional.
The drop zones are fairly simple once you figure it out. To "edit" the drop zones you have to press the menu button and then press edit drop zones. You either drop the individual photo's into each zone OR press auto fill. The drop zones will then be filled with your slideshow and each zone should start at a different point in the show. So in effect you have mini-slideshows playing on your theme (it is quite effective too). To adjust a photo (not a slideshow) within a drop-zone you just need to click on it and drag it to the position you want. Be careful though, if you are too zealous it will delete!
I can't help you with your last question, though I am sure someone else will.

IDVD Scene Selection Buttons Dont Work Properly

Trying to burn a DVD with multiple scene selections. This project has 19 scenes. No matter which button I click on, they all go to 1 chapter. Even the Play Movie button on the main menu goes to the same scene. I looked at the map & can't see if anything is wrong. This happens periodically but can't figure out why this happens.
Thanks for your help.

(BTW, iDVD 7.0.3 IS iDVD 08 that came with iLife 8....There was no iLife 7).
THOUGHTS:
1. I would first trash iDVD's Preference file: With iDVD closed, go to your Home folder(YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag this plist file to the trash. Don't worry...iDVD will create a new fresh one when you relaunch it.
2. I also recommend that you do a 'repair permissions' on your computer's drive.
Open Disk Utility and locate your computer's named icon in the left panel.
Select it, and then choose to 'repair permissions' You will see this option if the First Aid tab is selected.
Be patient...it make take some time.
If anything needs to be corrected, let DU do it.
When it says that everything is now ok, you are done.
After doing both of the above, reopen your iDVD project. You can try to burn a disk or create a disk image file again, but if that still does not work right, I would create a new iDVD project and make a disk image file from that one. If the first project is not working, something must be corrupted with the chapters, so I recommend a new iDVD project.
3. Be sure you have followed the chapter marker 'rules':
Don't put a marker at the beginning of your iMovie...iDVD will do that automatically.
Don't put a marker within two seconds of the beginning or the end of your movie.
And, don't put a marker on or within two seconds of any transition.
That last one is not so crucial as it used to be, but if you put most of your markers on transitions, you may run into problems.
I use iMovie 6, and I make use of its ability to be exported as a quicktime movie. I then open a new iMovie project and drag in the quicktime version of my original iMovie, make chapter markers and use this one to put into iDVD. Because the iMovie is one long clip now, I can put chapter markers anywhere (except the beginning) and they always work.
I think it is a bit more complicated to do this with iMovie 9; you will need to search in that discussion.
4. Also be sure you have not used non-alphanumeric characters for your scene titles. iDVD apparently does not like things like ampersands--& and other such characters.
Post back if you are still having problems.

16:9 and iDVD/iMovie question.

hey all again lol. I dont know why the general questions stump me and the more detailed ones i understand. but here it goes.
1 If i shoot a movie on my cam in 16:9 that means i want my imovie and idvd sessions to be 16:9 right?
2 and if i shoot my movie normal then i would want to use the normal imovie/idvd setting correct?

lol thank you...yeah when i import into imovie it goes in and looks like regular tape but once i finish it encodes (or whatever its called) and then transferes it correctly when its done

IDVD Quality Question

Kind People,
I shot my video on a Canon Vixia HF10, downloaded it to Final Cut Express to edit, exported it as Quick Time Movie, dropped it in iDVD, then played it on my TV and the quality was…..not good. The video was a little fuzzy and there were ghosts. Are there any settings I should go back and check in iDVD.
Wolfgang
FYI - I’m going to ask this same question in the Final Cut Express forum.

Hi
Exactly How did You go from FCE to iDVD ?
I do. Export as QuickTime .mov
• Not Selfcontained
• NO QuickTime conversion
How much free space is there on Your internal (boot) hard disk. THIS IS ESSENTIAL
due to that neither Mac OS or iDVD can store it's temp-files elsewhere.
Yours Bengt W

IDVD Music Question...

This is an off-shoot of a question I had below. I'm putting together a slideshow in iDVD with several thousand images and I need to add music. Obviously I'mt trying to save disc space. Even though I've accepted I'll be burning dual-layer I would love to burn single. That point is neither here nor there though. The real question is: is song file size going to save any room or is it song length, no matter (reasonably) what the song file size is? And on a side note: If you were making slideshows in either iMovie or iDVD what is the best way to get the most images in AND music. I've noticed that even though you can do 9801 images on iDVD, the music option goes away at about 4000 images. The music just takes up too much space.

...a slideshow ... with several thousand images...
wot?!
as Bengt mentioned: videoDVD standards allow a max. of 99 in one slideshow... that's no benchmark of iDVD, that is a standard... you "override" that by using an edit app as iM and create a video stream...
and as J Keller mentioned: iDVD doesn't care for file size, only length of project (max here is <120minutes), an average iM project of 2h contains 30 - 40GB of data => fits on SL 4.7Gb dvd-r ...
just to feed my curiosity:
what "slideshow" contains THOUSANDS of pics???
probably, your nic gives me the answer, and you do a really fast/speed metal inspired "show"... (man, I'm too old for that stuff....)
PS:
120min of NTSC video contain 216.000 frames/pics.. enough?

Keynote/idvd/imovie question

I have a specific project that needs to be done and I want to ensure that I do it in the most effective way.
I need to make a professional slideshow to be shown in seminar rooms for training purposes. The show needs to have text headings, pictures of people and music (more than one song/presentation). There is a possibility of needing graphs/charts as well.
The tricky part is that it won't be static. We'll be changing the pictures everytime we show it (they will be pictures of the participants in each individual seminar) and we will change the music as well.
I need something that makes it really easy to swap music and pictures, and it needs to be somehow projected (picture and sound) for a large audience (100?).
I am thinking that I'll do it in keynote and export to idvd, but I think the music will be hard since we want more than one song per presentation. Can you export keynote to imovie? If so, I think that will be the easiest. I could do the whole thing in imovie, but that seems complicated.
Any ideas would really be appreciated.
Amy

It does not need to be interactive at the time it is shown, there will be access to a mac or we can run it off of a DVD (actually anything is possible and it is up to me so I want to plan in advance for whatever the best route may be), and yes, there will be different slides and there will need to be different music throughout. Let me know if I understood and answered all your questions.
Part of the challenge is that the music may have to be changed every 3 months or so (we will have a seminar once a week and show the presentation once each week) and the pictures will change every week (based on current participants).

Imovie/idvd ratio question

..If I made a movie/video in imovie, & completed it with the Aspect Ratio set to "Widescreen 16;9", how does that (or does it), affect how it will look in the end, after exporting it to idvd for a burn.
I saw when I exported to itunes, I was able to choose 'Medium 640x360' as well as
'Large 960x540', but does that still mean Im technically still set to widescreen?
Oncein exported to idvd, under project properties, it gives the choice of Standard 4;3 or Widescreen 16;9. I cant see the project anymore, im going blind, but i swear their not the same, & i cant tell the difference at the moment.. If that was already decided in imovie, does it have to be the same for idvd? or can it, should it, would it be changed?
thanks in advance for any help...

16:9 movies should be used in 16:9 iDVD projects. Set your iDVD preferences before creating your project.

IDVD upgrade question

I have a 20" iMac 2.33GHz Intel machine that I recently upgraded to 10.7. I had previously upgraded my iPhoto and iMovie to v9 via the App Store. I have come across a project where I'd like to burn a slideshow DVD using iDVD, but the version I have (v6.0.4) is not compatible with Lion. The best I can tell, I have to buy iLife '09 for $80, after spending the money to buy iPhoto and iMovie '11, to upgrade iDVD. Since I already bought the other two, I don't want to buy them again, downgrade, then upgrade again. It just seems to be a hassle. I'd gladly pay for iDVD from the app store, but it's not available. Any ideas?

With Lion you can purchase iLife '11 from the Apple store for $49 to get the latest versions of all the iApps. Then apply the latest updaters to those apps that are available on Apple Downloads site.
If iLife 09 would be compatible with Lion you can find copies of it at eBay for as low a $10. But I would go the iLife 11 route to make sure your software will continue to be compatible with your OS.
OT

Photos oddly colored in iDVD

I asked this question in the Final Cut Express forum but received no answers, so I'll try here. I have iDVD 7. I made a video in Final Cut Express, exported it as a QuickTime movie, and dropped it into iDVD, which automatically created several screens to deal with all my scene (chapter) markers.
I created a custom Theme by dropping digital photos into the backgrounds of the Scene Selection pages. The photos looked fine in both Photoshop and iDVD. These same photos were also used in parts of the video.
But when the video was burned to a DVD, many of these photos on the scene selection screens now look oddly colored, the colors overly saturated and exaggerated, for example some of the people look badly sunburned.
The odd thing is, as I said these same photos are also in the video, and they look fine there; it's only on the menu screens created by iDVD that the colors look odd.
It seems to me that iDVD is processing the colors of these photos differently than Final Cut Express does. Is there some way I should be preparing these still pictures before I drop them into iDVD, so that the colors will stay normal?
Tom

Bengt, I have three TVs available to test my DVDs. Only on the smallest and cheapest do the photos look acceptable, and only barely. On the other two TVs, and especially the largest and most expensive one, they look overheated and oversaturated,quite unnatural.
I would agree with you Shippey that it is a monitor calibration issue, but I have two large monitors connected to my Mac, each with different calibration profiles, and the photos look fine on either one of them. They also look fine in the video. Only on the iDVD scene-selection pages do they look odd.
So, here is what I'm trying right now: I went back into iDVD and replaced all the pictures with ones that have been partly desaturated in Photoshop. I went into Photoshop's Hue/Saturation control and pulled down the saturation until some of the color was removed from each picture. Then I put those pictures back into the scene-selection screens of iDVD, and I'm presently burning a fresh DVD (actually a disk image, to start with). I won't know the results for a few hours yet, because I'm using the Professional encoding setting and it takes a long time for iDVD to process that way. I'll report back the results after I burn a new DVD later today and try it out on the TVs.
At least I have learned from you that iDVD is not supposed to require any special kind of Photoshop file, or some "broadcast safe colors" version of a file or something. It is supposed to do it correctly just as I did it--straight out of Photoshop. Why it doesn't do that is still the question.

Various iDVD '08 Problems

I have read the posts in this discussion group and I don't see anyone describing these types of problems. Perhaps you can help.
I have a large (4 GB) multi-slideshow (11) project with over 400 total slides. I built each slideshow in iDVD from the pictures in my iPhoto '08 Library.
While building the project, iDVD crashed twice and I had one kernal panic.
In rearranging the order of my slides for one of the larger slideshows, several small groups of slides were randomly (?) scattered throughout the rest of the slideshow. I didn't notice this until after I burned the DVD. I could have sworn the Preview was perfect for all of the slideshows before the burn.
Trying to burn the project to a DVD was problematic. There were no warning symbols on the DVD map of the project. The first burn ended in a "Multiplexor Error - during muxing preparation (Project Conversion)". Nothing was written to the DVD. The second try ended in a "Multiplexing & Burning Asset Parsing" error. Still nothing written to the DVD but somewhat further along than before. On my little iMac G5-1.8 these initial burns (with encoding) take on the order of 5 hours.
A call to AppleCare Support gave me a few suggestions. The first was to try Advanced > Delete Encoded Asset. This eliminated the background encoding that was probably messed up with all of my editing of the slideshows. It gives a fresh encoding of the project at the time of the burn. This allowed me to finally burn the DVD. But I can't claim victory yet. When I played the DVD on an external player, part way through the last slideshow, the transitions (Dissolve) from one slide to the next were lost and it just displayed a green screen for the entire transition. This was the last slideshow of all my pictures (all 400 of them).
My Project Info window gives me a 100% green bar for Quality at Best Performance encoding. Every line in the Media box has a check in the Status column. Steve from AppleCare suggested changing the encoding to High Quality. From other posts on this discussion board it looks like iDVD will make two passes for High Quality encoding. Would this double my encoding and burn time to 10 hours??? Another suggestion Steve made is to eliminate one of my slideshows, perhaps the last and biggest one. Any other suggestions?
Has anyone else run into these types of problems in iDVD '08? Is this typical for new software?
Thanks for your help,
Rich

Thank you SDMacuser and Jim2006 for your discussion thread. I hope you can still help me with this project.
Item:
When slideshows are sent to iDVD from iPhoto they are rendered out as movies, so they will take about twice as long to encode using two-pass. And since they can have motion, they will benefit from two-pass encoding.
Response:
I didn't create the slideshow in iPhoto and use the "Share > Send to iDVD" command. I built each slideshow within iDVD using the photos in iPhoto. I chose this method because dragging photos from a Finder window into iDVD significantly increased the file size of my project (from a few hundred KB to several hundred MB for the same number of slides). The one slideshow I did send to iDVD from iPhoto is several hundred MB and according to what you say above, it apparently was rendered as a movie before going to iDVD.
Questions:
Do you think this is where iDVD is having trouble with the large slideshow and the transitions for it (remember the green screen transitions)? Should I just pull the last slide show of 400+ slides and burn it as a separate DVD? All the other smaller slideshows (a couple were over 100 slides each) in the project were encoded fine with their transitions. It appears that iDVD is going to the iPhoto Library to grab each slide for the slideshows and then building the transition. For this project, the total is over 800 slides. Could that be the reason for the long encoding time?
Item:
What is taking so long and making the project so large is the transitions. To isolate the problem I suggest first burning this project without transitions to a disc image. If this still fails then just start removing slideshows/images until it works and then you will figure out which image is causing the problem.
Response:
I noticed in the progress window that transitions are encoded and tracked separately from other project items like menus and slides. But the transitions were encoded in parallel with other project items. I will try burning the project to disc image without the transitions and compare the times. But I really like the transitions between slides. They kind of take me back to the old days of a slide projector, screen and trays of slides.
Thanks again for your help,
Rich

Reverting back to older iDVD

I've had nothing but problems with the new iDVD, involving the same multiplexing error that is referred to by many other posts in the topic named "Multiplexer error when burning from IDVD"
My question is: Can I remove only iDVD from iLife09 and revert back to an older version of iDVD? I used to run the 06 version, and never experienced the kind of pain I'm running into right now. I'd like to keep the other new parts of 09, since they seem to work (so far, at least.)

Suggestion only: Don't go backwards.
(But if you must then use this free download prior to reinstalling an older version):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/appdelete.html
Good luck.
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DVD quality with DVD SP

I have been using iDVD to produce DVDs and would be interested in using DVD SP if the quality of visual playback for single sided DVDs over one hour in length (or dual layer DVDs longer than two hours) was significantly better than with iDVD.
With iDVD scenes with rapid motion are significantly degraded when producing DVDs over one hour in length. Does the compression used with DVD SP produce less artifacts with longer times?
Thanks,
Jim

Hi James:
You have more control over the final result of your finished disc in every way possible when comparing DVD Studio Pro to iDVD.
DVDSP bridges an interesting gap between what iDVD is - an easy application for drag and drop DVD creation - and what high-end DVD authoring applications like Sonic Scenarist (what most Hollywood feature films are authored on) are.
If you're using DVDSP at the "drag and drop" level, you are using the application presets for encoding your video to MPEG2 (the format that it must be in prior to being multiplexed - or "muxed"). This image quality is, well, "goodish".
For better picture quality results, you'll want to encode your source video to MPEG2 prior to importing it into DVDSP.
Compressor, the application that ships with DVDSP and/or Final Cut Pro Studio (is DVDSP still available as a stand alone product?) for transcoding digital video has very good presets for MPEG2.
There are several other Mac based products for encoding MPEG2 for DVD authoring (Autodesk Cleaner, Flip4Mac Episode, etc.); however, these all use QuickTime under the hood. When it comes to software encoding it's really a question of what level of control that an application gives you over the numerous settings when you want to tweak the presets. That, or, which application has the best presets.
If a DVD-Video disc is disctributed by a major studio, the picture is typically hardware encoded to MPEG2 (often with the Sonic SD2000 board - about $25,000.00 - but there are others) from Digital Betacam video tape.
While there's still some debate over this, a software encoded stream can look just as good as a hardware encoded stream. For years, the difference has been which one gets the job done faster. A PowerMac G4/400 can encode 10 minutes of DV-NTSC footage at Compressor's "best" settings in about four hours while a PowerMac Dual G5/2.0GHz can encode the same source at the same setting in seven minutes while a MacPro Dual/3.0 Duo Core can finish in thee minutes. Hardware encoding, by contrast, is the run time of the video (actaully, three times the run time of the video allowing for an analysis of the picture, encoding of the picture, then encoding of the audio). And, of course, you have to start with good picture quality to begin with.
If nothing else, it's worth learning DVDSP just to have direct control of the button flow on your DVD menus.
Hope this helps.
-Warren

Best way to create DVD from videos from several events?

Hi all - I'm very new to iMovie and iDVD and was hoping for some advice. I'm making a compilation DVD "for the grandparents" of videos from a variety of the kids' events throughout the year. What's the best way to do this? By the way, I've switched to using iMovie HD but am still using iDVD '08. I've been prototyping a few things and came up with the following options:
Option 1: Create one iMovie HD project and import all the videos from the various events into one timeline. I then create the chapter markers as usual, then Share with iDVD.
Question: I want each of the event videos to return to the DVD Menu. How would I do that if all the videos have been combined into one timeline in iMovie HD?
Option 2: Create each event video under its own iMovie HD project. Export each video into .dv format (I don't know what the best format would be). In iDVD, insert each video.
Questions: Would I lose video quality going this route? If I wanted to create chapter markers within each event video, I assume I would lose them once I've exported to .dv format?
Which of the above would be a better option? Is there a better option?
Thanks!

If you make changes to your iMovie project, the next time you open your iDVD project a pop-up will inform you that assets have been updated and asks if you want to update. Click update and your changes will be incorporated. As long as you haven't changed locations of your iDVD project and iMovie project, iDVD will point to the ongoing iMovie project. But if you move your iDVD project to another drive, or rename the iMovie project, iDVD will tell you that there are missing assets because it can't find your iMovie project. At least, that's what happens to me when I do that.
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