Idvd slide show problems

Starting in iphoto, I've made a dvd from 160 pictures, along with audio. When I play the dvd there are occasional audio dropouts and one big dropout of a couple of seconds. I finally noticed my dvd player is showing a track change at that point, (1 to 2). When making the dvd, I didn't select more then one track. Does it automatically create more tracks for longer dvd's? It's about 40 minutes long. How can I get rid of this dropout? On one player, it actually froze up and stopped at this point.
Also, after experiencing these problems, I burned a disc image to an external drive, and then burned dvds from the image. It did not help the above problems, but I discovered my computer dvd player would not recognize the discs, even though they would play on my audio/video player. I burned using both Toast and disc utility, no difference. Any suggestions?

Burning the disk at the slowest speed possible will help minimize the pause on some players. Using iMovie will, IMO, give you a lower image quality and removes the slideshow feature, i.e. moving forward or back one slide at a time with the DVD remote. With the movie method you have to "rewind" or "fast forward", not as convenient if that is a feature that you might want to keep. If not then iMovie will avoid that 99 pause.
I'm putting together a 250 slideshow for a neighbor and am using iMovie HD since I need to put snippets of songs at various places in the audio track. That's the one advantage with iMovie HD. Also you can add lots of chapter markers in iMovie HD if you want the option to jump ahead.

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Major Loss of Sharpness iDVD Slide Show

Sorry if this seems like just a re-hash of the "Loss of Saturation" thread, but wow....what a disappointment. Actually I was shocked at the result of my first DVD created in iDVD. The images are so soft I'd be embarrassed to give this to someone to view. I shot the pics at ISO 200 inside with available light with my Canon PowerShot G5 at next to the highest resolution (Superfine 1600X1200), all images saved as JPEG's, no photo editing done. The images are very sharp in iPhoto.
Would shooting at ISO 100, highest resolution, or saving as TIFF or other format result in sharper images in the finished product or is this just the nature of the beast?
I can certainly try it out myself this weekend but was wondering if anyone else found a way to get sharp, well saturated images in an iDVD slide show.
Thanks in advance.
Dale

Dale,
Since nobody else answered your other question, let me weigh in. It doesn't matter what ISO you shot the images at, if they look right in iPhoto or Photoshop or whatever software you're editing (or not editing) in. In theory the image you see in iPhoto (or iMovie or iDVD) should be what your final image looks like when you burn to DVD and play it on your TV. The problem you'll have is getting the saturations to match since your TV is working off an entirely different set of color and saturation settings than your computer. When I'm editing and working through colors for a DVD slideshow presentation I'll actually connect my powerbook to my TV and edit the photos directly on the television, thus giving me the correct colors (even though they usually look like crap on my Mac, they look right on the TV)
Hope that helps a little.

Can I create an iDVD slide show and keep the picture resolution high so the pictures will be HDTV quality or near HDTV quality for playback on a DVD player?

How do I create an iDVD slide show that does not compress the photos making them low-res? When I insert the iDVD I have made into a DVD player connected to an HDTV, the playback quality of the pictures are very low. Is there a way to correct this when creatinf the iDVD?

The post by Bengt Wärleby in this topic describes a workflow for producing a high quality slideshow but not an HD one as macpmaus pointed out isn't possible: Create HD slideshow: Apple Support Communities
OT

IDVD slide show formatting

I've read conflicting info ... please help!
Max resoulution iDVD slide show for TV use:
Image resolution?
Image format - TIFF or JPEG?
Image size - 720x480 or 640x480 - or larger?
Thanks,
John

I'd use jpg since tiff are so large and would put a burden on the encoding process. The size iDVD reduces any image to is 640 x 480 x 72. I just make sure my images are cropped to the 4:3 ratio that's recommended and since my camera produces 4:3 ratio images I don't have much to do but minor edits. So I wouldn't spend a lot of effort cropping and changing resolution. Just makes sure they are in the 4:3 ratio.
OT

My photos are sharp but become soft when used in and IDVD slide show.

My photos are sharp but become soft when used in and IDVD slide show. How can I prevent this from happining??

Hi,
I suggest that you try unchecking both of the crop options - landscape & portrait.
To re-create your situation, I had to check the crop for landscape pictures option.
I prefer to have control over any cropping so I tend to crop each image first before creating the slide show.
Brian

Pictures in iDVD slide show keep auto adjusting

Hi,
I'm knew to iDVD. I am a professional photographer and prior to iDVD used another piece of software to create DVD slideshows.
I created my first iDVD slide show, and encountered a weird issue. The only transition I'm using is a dissolve; it seems that at the time the slide show was being rendered, images were somehow being "auto adjusted" for exposure. The images come on the TV, then they automatically adjust for exposure; iDVD attempts to make lighter images dark and darker images lighter. It is annoying. Anyone know how to turn this "auto exposure" adjustment off?
I looked everywhere for help on this issue: I.E. turn off "auto adjust", but to no avail.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply...
Question: How do I turn on or turn off "auto adjust?"
I didn't quit and then restart...
The images are on the higher res side.
but again, where is the "auto adjust" setting located?
Michael

Rolling credits in iDVD slide show

I would like to have rolling credits at the end of my iDVD (not iPhoto) slide show, similar to imovie. Not sure how to go about it. Do I need to move the iDVD slide show to iMovie?
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rolling credits.....Do I need to move the iDVD slide show to iMovie?
Yes, only the only iLife product that can make rolling credits is iMovie.
But consider this- build the slideshow in iPhoto (without rolling credits or sound) use "Send to iDVD" to create a QT Movie (just close iDVD) and import the movie into iMovie, add rolling credits, titles, sounds, and then use that movie in iDVD. Ok, it sounds complicated, but it is really efficient compared to building the whole thing in iMovie......

IDVD Slide Show Playback?

I have developed an iDVD slide show on my iMac. Testing the DVD's I burned on different DVD players I found that the slide show is interrupted between each slide when using a Blue Ray DVD player. The show runs fine on all other DVD players tested. Why is the show being interrupted and what can be done to the slide show to correct this issue before burning another copy?

Hi
Have no true answer - but suggestions.
Brand of DVD - I use Verbatim
Type of DVD - I use DVD-R
Burn speed - I set it down to x1 (x4 recommended by many)
Free space on internal hard disk - I never go under 25Gb when doing DVDs
Yours Bengt W

Exporting Slide Show Problems

I am having trouble exporting my slide show with either the regular export or share to iDVD. I have updated iPhoto to the latest version, tried rebooting, shutting down. It gets all the way across to the very end and then says there was an error. Any ideas or suggestions?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. That error code is a file is busy error. What size is the file that you end up with? Does it have a .mov extension on it? If not, try adding the .mov extension and see if you can open it.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.≤br>
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Un even sound in idvd slide show

I built a slide show in idvd 6.02 and imported a mp3 music file from itunes. When i demo it on my mac the sound is great. level is constant at any volume through my external speakes. When i burn it the volume fluctuates. idvd prorblem? i have my setting at best performance. Movies is fine, just the slide show with transition of flip. I see others have had the same problem but no real solution. Any help appreciated.
imac G5 20inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Time for a new one?
There's a nice little electronics shop on Campbell south of River. Used to be next to Albertson's but moved a few blocks away and the other side of Campbell. Nice guys. Heavy in Sony, which performs for me. Can't recall the name. Something like Raiders (it's their name [Rader's], I believe).

IDVD slide shows and DVD ROM contents?

No problem making slide shows, but iDVD will not copy ALL of the hi-res pics, seems to have a mind of its own and drops short. ie. 3 slide shows of 100 pics each it will copy 87, 55, 85 hi-res pics only. 5 slide shows of 100 each it will copy 80, 52, 85, 88, 90 hi-res pics only. Has anybody got any ideas please.

George,
iDVD isn't always happy about working with lots of multi-megapixel images and can't use all the quality. See iDVD 6.0 Help-Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html for information on recommended sizes. Things will go a lot faster with the smaller images mentioned in that help file.
You can always manually add content to the DVD-ROM area. See iDVD 6.0 Help - Adding files to the DVD-ROM portion of a disc at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/74.html
My recommendation: use 720x540 images for the slideshow and manually add the high res images to the DVD-ROM area.

PSE 7 Slide Show problems

I have used Photoshop 7 on my computer running vista very successfully but a problem has now arisen. When I use slide show to show some of my selections the pictures are pixelated. This does not apply to all selections. I note that the pixelated pictures are c 400% but the ones that are ok are 40%. If I do not allow the pictures to resize in slide show thet are only small. Any help would be appreciated. This has only happened recently and I cant remember if I have had an adobe downloaded update which might have affected this.

Hi Bob
Thanks for coming back to me so quick, I will try & explain the problem in
more detail.
I have all of the photos in My Catalogue tagged ie 2009 Holiday, Mothers
Birthday etc so that by selecting the tag and then display in full screen I
can show them in a slide show to friends & family. This has always worked
well until last week when I called up a slide show of a past holiday the
pictures were very pixelated. All photos are not affected. Some holidays I
select in slide show are ok. If I look at individual pictures in my
catalogue most are ok but many are pixelated. Any pictures that have not
been adjusted in PSE 7 are ok.
Any picture viewed in full screen in slide show has in the top left pop up
menu a % of less than 100%, typically 35 - 75%. Any of the pixelated
pictures have a % 350 - 450%.
I originally had Elements 2 but upgraded to PSE 7 when I changed to Vista
because of album problems, apart from problems converting my catalogue
originally all has worked very well. Apart from the recent update the only
other thing which I have done is to start a back up which I aborted because
it was taking a long time to do. I have 4,600 photos in my catalogue and the
problem slide shows are random throughout but appear to be trouble free up
to about the end of 2004. ie a holiday slide show before then seems to be
ok. The latest photos put into the catalogue this month, post upgrade & post
attempted back up are ok. I have also found that if I expand a photo that
has been modified in PSE 7 although the modified picture is pixelated the
original displays ok. I hope that this more fully explains my problem but if
you require more information please let me know. I really do appreciate you
looking at this for me. It is very frustrating when something that was
working perfectly for me then goes **** up!
Regards
David

Flickery transitions in iDVD slide show

I have burned two disks now using iDVD and had no trouble but I do have a question about transitions in slide shows. On the first disk I used a slide show (8 minutes, 99 images) with the “fit to music” option and the “use safe area” option for the display. The images were a little too small for my taste on my TV so I redid the show and unchecked the “safe” option. At the same time, I cut 9 of the slides but since I kept the “fit to music” option the timing was slightly slower. Fine, but I noticed that the dissolves between the images were “flickery” when compared to the first one on my TV. I had extracted the .dv of the first slideshow and included it on the second DVD so I could compare them directly and it’s true - they are smooth in the first but noticeably less so in the second, full screen, slideshow.
Has anyone else had this happen? Should I try to add nine more images back in? As it takes over an hour to burn this disk on my old, slow machine I'd rather ask first than attempt every possible variation on my own.
I can add that both disks were burned with the 60 minute “faster” rather than the 120 minute “better” quality mode. Since one doesn’t display the flickering I don’t really think the quality mode is relevant but who knows...
iDVD 4.01, G4 400 mhz 896 megs ram
G4 Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9) 896 RAM, 620 gigs HD
G4 Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9) 896 RAM, 620 gigs HD

Hi Rick:
Matti Haveri (one of the top rated iLife members) has done tests on this subject. here are his results:
----quote:
Movie slideshows tend to flicker with high-frequency images while "soft" images are OK.
So I did a quick test to see how the input image's resolution and blurring affects the output quality of those high-frequency images.
Test material: some 2048x1536 digital camera JPG images that had a lot of very sharp edges (buildings, thin wires, construction work scenes etc -- i.e. "high-frequency" images). I converted them to TIF so that there was no lossy JPG degradation involved. I manipulated the images in Photoshop as follows:
1. original 2048x1536
2. original bicubically resampled to 768x576. I guess also iPhoto bicubically resamples; at least the results are very similar. On the other hand, I believe Graphic Converter does not have bicubic resampling so I haven't got as good results with it.
3. original bicubically resampled to 640x480
4. original with 90° (vertical) 3 pixel Motion Blur. The idea is to blur only the horizontal thin lines which flicker on an interlaced TV. The vertical lines are unaffected by this filter.
5. original with 1 pixel Gaussian blur. This blurs horizontally approximately as much as the 3 pixel Motion blur, but it blurs the image also vertically.
In iMovie's 4:3 PAL standard DV project (720x576) I applied to each image a) no Ken Burns and b) 1-5x zoomed 10 second Ken Burns. I did not let iMovie render the non-Ken Burns images while exporting the project to iDVD because that is a well-known source for bad quality.
I burned the project via iDVD's Best Performance to DVD and checked the result via an interlaced 28" CRT TV.
The results:
#1-5 were all sharp with no Ken Burns as well as with 1x zoomed Ken Burns. But the higher resolution non-blurred input images were, in fact, TOO sharp and thus flickered on a TV:
1. 2048x1536 flickered very badly with and without Ken Burns
2. 768x576 flickered slightly less but also very disturbingly
3. 640x480 flickered only little. But both #2-3 tolerated the 3-5x zoom very badly because the input resolution was so small. The zoomed-in image was too blurry and the details were lost.
4. Vertical Motion Blur didn't flicker at all. But during the zoom there was some disturbing "living" in the vertical lines. Obviously the vertical lines must be blurred, too:
5. Gaussian blur didn't flicker and the zooms were beautiful and peaceful. The Gaussian blur lost some fine detail in the zoomed-in image but the quality was very good. And the loss of fine detail is just a trade-off for the flickerless image.
In fact, I have had very similar results to #5 with Photo To Movie's High Quality setting. Also Toast's slideshows are of good quality. A lot of people have also been satisfied with Still Life and PhotoMagico.
Conclusions:
- iMovie should blur the images so they wouldn't flicker on a TV. Applying a small Gaussian blur to the input images seems like a good workaround.
- Using Photo To Movie, Toast, Still Life and PhotoMagico and other 3rd party utilities are good alternatives, too.
----end quote
:)Sue

IDVD Slide Show Feature - Audio Issues

Looked around in this forum and did not see this specific issue.
I open iDVD, pick a theme, add a slide show, select the pictures out of the media window, and drag them in. Select a play list out of iTunes, and drag it in. Play the show in iDVD, all is wonderful. Burn the disk, put it in the DVD player attached to the TV, and the slideshow plays, but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.
Any ideas?
This also happened to me every time I tried to make a slideshow in the previous version of iDVD. I ended up creating the show in iPhoto or iMovie and importing that, but I guess I'd expect that if Apple put a slide show feature in iDVD, that it would actually work...

+but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.+
Toshiba DVD player? I've experienced that with those players...
Does it play OK in your Mac?

Weather widget and slide show problems

Hi
The site is www.heritageharbourcommunity.com
My site opens on a three column fixed page with header and footer. I have been able to define the area between the nav bar and footer as editable. When I go to incontext and try to make that area editable through incontext it seems fine until I test it. I receive a message that the area is not editable and I can make regions editable through incontext. Only the right most column has a dashed line around it. From that I assume the problem is with the weather widget in column 1 and the slide show in column 2.
All of my other pages are single column and seem to work well with incontext. Any suggestions? Thanks...Morgan

Hello MoBet,
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<noscript><a href="http://www.dwuser.com/" title="Dreamweaver Extensions">Dreamweaver Extensions by DWUser.com</a></noscript><script type="text/javascript">
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You will then be able to make individual editable regions for the two sidebar elements. Do the same for the center column:
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Best regards,
Corey

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