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.

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I cannot see why DVD @CCESS and DVD-ROM content are not working properly

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I am very new to DSP, and I know I am missing a piece of the jigsaw, but I do not know what it is. I used a tutorial from creative cow to try and make the @CCEESS function work, but no dice… for now at least. When I did a build/format (to the HDD) everything went fine. I mounted the image, and I could see the DVD @CCESS folder and the DVD–ROM content on the DVD image. When I went to play the image, the button did not work. The content I am trying to use with @CCESS is a PDF file.
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As Eric said - DVD@ccess is really not that useful. It was a way to get documents like PDFs to automatically launch in the application (like Acrobat) when watching a DVD on a computer. Since they can't launch on a set top player the technology was already limited. Then the whole issue of getting it to work on a PC arose - it simply wasn't reliable. I managed to produce one disc that was replicated with @ccess links, but I knew the parameters for it's use in advance and managed to get it to work. It doesn't work on modern machines.
For a while there was a Sonic app which was much better at getting this sort of thing to work, but you had to work on a OC to set it up. Sonic pulled the app shortly after I bought it (sigh) and never replaced it. The fact is, automating document launches and web links is actually pretty tricky on a DVD, the results were variable and it never really enhanced your discs like you wanted to think it would!
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Creating DVD-ROM content?

Premier Pro CS3, Windows XP, 2GB RAM, plenty fast hard drives
I'd like to create a DVD with both video and DVD-ROM content. Is that possible?
If not, then suggestions for the following ... part of the DVD is video content in the form of slide shows set to music.
The other part of the DVD needs to be self-running slideshows that have no soundtrack. I'd like to use Photoshop Web Photo Galleries to create these slide shows. If I can't have mixed DVD and DVD-ROM content, then how to output these slide shows so they work on the DVD?
I've never tried PDF Presentations but seems like if I want to use Web Photo Galleries my only option is Flash. True?

Steve, if you mean by DVD-ROM just being able to access other files included on a DVD, it's super simple to do.
Burn out your project files ( your vobs for your video portion ) to a folder on your computer.
Then open Nero, or whatever you use to burn your DVDs out. Copy your e VIDEO_TS folder like you usually do to burn out a disc, and then just drag and drop over the other files needed for your slide shows to Nero or whatever you use, and then burn the disc out. The finished disc will play your video content upon putting it into your DVD player, and you'll be able to play the other content on your computer ( from that DVD disc )
As for Jim's comments, he's much much more advanced than I, and I'd love to hear more about these "assets" for Encore, and what the proceedure is.
Dave.

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

I would like to create a slide show and then burn to a DVD. I may be interested in adding music. Should I use iPhone, iMovie or a simple Powerpoint?

I am going to be creating a slide show and then burning it to a couple of DVDs. I have used PPT in the past for simple slide shows for speaking engagements, but I am interested in adding music to this slide show. What is the best/easiest application to use? iMovie, iPhoto or Powerpoint?
Thanks!
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burning it to a couple of DVDs
Is it your intention to create video DVDS that can be played on TV sets via DVD players? If so you'll need a video DVD authoring application like iDVD.
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.4.3 and earlier select Size = Medium or Large. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then 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.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
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IDVD 6 dvd-rom content of images used in the movie aren't visible on winbox

I created a slideshow in iPhoto 6, exported as a QuickTime movie, and then imported that movie into iDVD 6.
Into the advanced menu, edit dvd-rom window, I dragged from iPhoto, the album of the images used to create the QuickTime movie.
After burning the project onto a dvd-r disc, I checked the disc on my mac. Both the movie and the dvd-rom contents of the images viewed perfectly.
On two winboxes running xp, the dvd movie played flawlessly, but when navigating, in win explorer, to the folder with the images, neither winbox was able to recognize the images as being images. They show the image titles below icons, but the images never load, nor when clicked, do they open.
Is there something back in iDVD or iPhoto that I can do to assure cross platform compatibility? I've searched this forum and looked at the relevant section of D. Pogue's iMovie 6/iDVD Missing Manual book, but it doesn't speak to this. It seems to suggest that there shouldn't be a problem.
My other thought is that I had saved my iDVD project as a disc image, then used DiskUtility to burn it onto the dvd-r. Is there something I need to do to from DiskUtility to assure cross platform compatibility?
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Okay, I figured out what was wrong. The problem was that when dragging the images to the edit dvd-rom content window, I had dragged from iPhoto. My iPhoto preferences are to NOT copy the images when importing, so when I dragged to iDVD, what I was dragging were only aliases of the images.
I trashed the disc image that I had created, and in iDVD, then dragged the actual images from the folder in which they resided, to the edit dvd-rom content window. I then saved as a disc image again.
Now, after burning a dvd-r in Disk Utility of that disc image, the images are recognized in the winboxes. They actually load much more quickly on my son's hp box than they do on my G4 mini!
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My settings in idvd are set to best quality.
The resulting DVD presents very low quality, saturation has decreased immensly, sharpness is gone. Audio VERY loud.
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By the way, I tried exporting a slide show from iPHOTO to iDVD but the resulting quality is extremely poor. I also tried to prepare the slide shows on iMOVIE but the results I get are not good either...
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See Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html
I have the images (In high ressolution ...
Basically, that's an overkill. At this point (pre-HD capable burners) we are limited to the less than 640x480 pixel resolution of the NTSC system (or 768x576 pixel resolution of PAL).
You slide show should look 'fairly good' on a TV set or on your computer monitor viewed at 640x480.
Sorry.

Has anyone had this issue. I created my song from itunes to garage band, took my iphotos to create a slide show and when I burned to idvd there are several pauses during playback?

Has anyone had this issue. I created my song from itunes to garage band, took my iphotos to create a slide show and when I burned to idvd there are several pauses during playback?

Hi
SlideShow in iDVD has a 99 photo limit - more than this and all sorts of error occures.
One can have more than one SlideShow on a DVD = X times 99 photos.
or assemble SlideShows in a movie editor (no limit at least not under 650 photos)
(only limit is Time in iDVD (movie time + MENU time --- 60 min or 120 min on SL-DVD and about twice on DL.-DVD )
I use
• iMovie up to HD6 - or -
• FinalCut any version
As they will give a better quality than iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 can do.
Yours Bengt W

IDVD DVD-ROM Contents Folder

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I am aware that if you add "computer files" to your iDVD project (PDFs, DOC files, etc.), it saves them to a folder called whatever your project name is, plus "DVD-ROM Contents". My question is, can you change this? I don't wish to have the folder called that. Thanks in advance.

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This computer (10.4 and iDVD5) doesn't let me rename the folder in a mounted image file that comes directly from iDVD. Unless I'm missing something... which is very possible.
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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

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Rendering will take a very long time - I once needed 6 hours for a shorter high definition movie with plenty of effects.
What theme are you using and what settings?
The "places" theme needs a good network connection.
And the finished movie will need plenty of disk space.
And the finished movie will need plenty of disk space. Have you checked the available space on your disk?
What exactly happens when Aperture fails to render the movie? Are there any diagnostics, error messages in the console window, that relate to Aperture? Does Aperture alway stop at the same image or video clip?
if all fails, you could render your slideshow in two parts and combine the two videos on your DVD.
Regards
Léonie

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DVD-ROM Contents Not Copied to DVD

I have created an iDVD slideshow of pictures from a trip. To include the pictures, including ones not in the slideshow, I used <Advanced-Edit DVD Contents...>. Using <Project-Project info...> I can see from the size of the project that the files are in fact included.
I then <File-Save As Disk Image...>. However, the final DVD does not have the extra files on it. It only contains the iDVD slide show.
What am I missing?

The disk image you created will have the DVD-ROM content.
How did you burn the disk image to writable media?
I ask because I recently did exactly what you did with a slideshow in iDVD. When I used Roxio's Toast Titanium 8 to burn the disk image to writable media, I failed to notice an 'Option Selection' block of information at the lower left of the Toast interface that had a box that says 'Use Fit-to-DVD Video Compression'. It seems to be selected by default and is very easy to miss. The disk I wrote did not have the DVD ROM content. I then used Apple's Disk Utility and everything was fine. I then when back to Toast and noticed the box I mentioned. When the box was unchecked, Toast also produced a 'good' DVD.
See http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4291458
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Slide show on DVD

Hi,
I am searching for some software that creates a slide show from a set of .jpg files and burns that slide show on a CD or DVD. The slide show should open on a computer (e.g. with IE Explorer) and also play on a DVD player. Roxio has software in Europe (Winon, I have version 3.8), this does the above but only works on Windows machines, no Mac equivalents; and not even available in the US. The format used is video-CD. Nero does the same, Windows only, announced a Neromax version but gave up on it. Does anybody know of any Mac software with these capabilities?
Thanks in advance,
Reinhart

Hi Len,
Thanks for your input, got iDVD to work. It still does not match the capabilities of Winon (playing on DVD players plus automatic opening on a computer with IE, PC or Mac). Hard to understand why such a program is not more widely promoted (or cloned). Maybe Europe has more demand for something like this.
Thanks again,
Reinhart
Does anybody know of any Mac software with these
capabilities?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/
I've made some pretty complex slideshow DVDs with
iDVD.
Ireland 2004 iDVD Project
Nearly 800 images dragged into iDVD as organized
folders from the hard drive. Transitions on each
image, and menus, sub-menus, and sub-sub menus. The
sub-menus are created by clicking on the Folder icon
on the iDVD interface.
Main Menu has 6 buttons: Downpatrick, Antrim Coast,
Letterkenny, Sligo, Trim, and Extras. Behind each
button are additional buttons ranging from 3 to 6
buttons. The Extras button goes fairly deep. When you
click on Extras, it gives you 3 choices on a new
menu. The "B&Bs" button opens a new menu with 5
buttons. The "Movies" button opens a new menu with 4
buttons. If you click on the "Irish Music" button,
you open a new menu with 2 buttons. At that point,
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converted to QT DV from Canon S400 digicam .AVI files
(iDVD 4). Now convert to H.264 with QuickTime 7.
Images are original 4MP (2MB) JPEG images from the
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pictures as DVD-ROM content.
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