IDVD Text

How can I increase the on screen text (type) quality? It really looks cheap; faded, fuzzy washed out. Make my quality productions look like an amature did them. THX - Carl

How are you evaluating your text – within FCX – after export in QT Player – in the iDVD preview – playing from a DVD player?
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First time trying this. Customized menu page with photo background, audio and text and a 'menu' button (problems there, but the main issue is...) and everything looks fine. I press preview and it the page looks okay, the customized button rolls up to the position I set, I click on it, it dissolves (as I want it to) leaving the photo,text and audio, which is odd, because it doesn't go to the iMovie already imported (I customized the menu page after importing iMovie), and then...the default iDVD text rolls up...TRAVEL CARDS and a directional arrow. I can't delete this stuff.
So the question is...
Is everything cool anyway, and I should just burn the DVD?
Or do I have to get in there and delete the ghost default menu/arrow?

This is the message I got from the Discussion Masters in re to my question:
This question is not answered. "Helpful" answers available: 2. "Solved" answers available: 1.
Really?
Where?
I went looking through the never-ending list of questions/replies and could find nothing that specifically addressed my question.

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iDVD Text Info Window--want to change the color text on menu. I press Command 1 but
the window doesn't open. The word Window in the Menu Bar Flashes.

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By sdmacuser at 2009-10-17

Problem with RED LINE under text in iDVD 5?

Can anyone help me. When I complete an iDVD project, there is always a RED LINE under the text on the menu. When the DVD is burned and I play it on my DVD player, there will be this annoying RED LINE flashing underneath the text. Does anyone else have this problem? Please let me know if there is a setting that needs to be changed. Thanks!

Tim:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Can you include some additional information on your setup, similar to what's in my profile? Also give your HD size and free space, exact version of the system and iDVD, the theme you're using and which text, title or button, that you're having the problem.
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IDVD 08 quits when editing text

When I use the dropdown text menu to change the font, size, etc. of the DVD title in the
opening theme/menu, the app quits. I am using an iDVD 05 theme. I usually do not
use themes but I found one that suits the project and now...no joy.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I'm wondering if you might have a duplicate font issue.
try going into Macintosh HD >Applications > Font Book, then look for
fonts that have a black dot beside them. Highlight these fonts, then from the menu bar select > Edit > Resolve Duplicates to turn these fonts off. Hope this helps but if not come on back.

No text in iDVD

I created a project in iMovie '11 (720p) and then share to media browser. After completion I opened up iDVD, went to OneStep DVD From Movie under File.
After burning the DVD everything was fine except for the opening page. The title (text) was missing. Where did I go wrong?

It's best to use this workflow to avoid creating bad DVDs:
Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality final product:
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 and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was 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.
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Modifying animated text in iDVD themes

In themes with animated text, such as "Pass Through" (a v6.0 theme), what text object is used to define the actual text that is animated? and if that text object is deleted, how can it be re-added? (presuming that the undo function cannot be used due to a save since its deletion)
Message was edited by: mlhjeh80

Can't answer your question directly, but would suggest re-doing your iDVD project with your new knowledge. Perhaps play with your theme to get it how you want before importing the videos.
John

Adding text pages in iDVD

Is there any other way to burn text pages in iDVD 5, than to import them in .pdf or other picture formats ?
Wouldn't it be easier to simply type or paste text on a blank page ?
Thank you for your help.
Liberty

The only way would be as you've already mentioned or select a text only page if one is available. There's no way to add text to a blank page in the iPhoto Book.
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IDVD 7 Poor text quality

Hello!
I am trying to use iDVD 7 to create a photo slideshow but my text is showing up terribly after I burn the DVD. Even the automated title text is poor quality and pixelated. I was originally trying this on iMovie but I was getting the same problem so I switched to iDVD and fixed some of the other problems I was having, but my text is still terrible. It's not quite unreadable but it is very unsightly. I would appreciate any input, especially if it doesn't require purchasing more software, which I don't have the authority to do here at my work.Please help! Thanks!
Dwayne

I think we're not understanding one another. At first I had used photoshop to add text and then added them to iDVD. But those were coming out terribly and so I learned that you could have iDVD automatically insert notes which you input in iDVD or the names of the photographs overtop the images. This functionality is accesed either in the window wherein you can add or delete images from the slideshow, in the Settings menu, or under iDVD/Preferences/Slideshow. Its called "Show Titles and Comments." So I went back into photoshop, got rid of the text I had added and then turned on this feature. So now iDVD automatically places a grey rounded rectangle near the bottom of my photos with the name of the image file. That is the text that is giving me trouble, and the text that I can't seem to adjust.
Thanks again for your guys' help. I really, really appreciate your time and effort! I hope this description gives you a better idea of my problem.

Unwanted text after iDVD burn

After burning a Slideshow in iDVD the text 'Drag photos or movies here' appears on the diagonal across all pictures in the slideshow when played on a DVD. This does not appear in the Preview phase on the computer before burning is commenced. How do I get rid of this unwanted tex?
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John,
Under iDVD General Preferences item 'Show Drop Zones' had been enabled, hence the text was superimposed on the selected picture. Once 'unticked' the text disappeared.
Thanks! That's something I had missed in the past because I had always added a background photo. Unchecking that box and using a theme like 'Full Frame' gives a nice gray background for those who want a simple DVD menu.

Adding text to my magic idvd

I want to add some text to my idvd that is a word document and don't know how to add it to the magic idvd. I've tried dragging it and it won't work. I'd like to add some word files to the piece but can't seem to figure it out. Seems like it should be straightforward but I'm having trouble. Any ideas?

You can't add text - other than in menus. You could convert the text into images and create a slideshow of those images.

IDVD 08 Change text in scene selection sub menu

Created a project in iMovie08 (prolly for the last time, switching to HD), exported to quicktime, imported to garage band, chaptered and added audio in garage band, shared to iDVD, iDVD created Scene Selection sub menu (phew.....thats intuative). When you go to the sub menu, it says "Revolution". How do you change that text to something that relates to the project instead of the style of the tool???

I seem to be the guru for this issue.
While you're on that menu, expand the theme and click on the different menu types. Then try to change the text.
Maybe it's time for a bug report: http://www.apple.com/feedback/idvd.html

I created a powerpoint presentation and used idvd to burn, the text is blurry? how do i fix this

I created a powerpoint presentation, used idvd to burn disk. the text is a bit blurry. how can i correct?

but the presentation can not have any movement, transistions or music
It's possible to create an iDVD slideshow from a PP presentation with still slides of each PP page.
Here's how to get any file into iPhoto as a jpeg file:
1 - open the presentation in Powerpoint and select all of the pages in the "page" mode (don't remember what that mode is called)..
2 - type Command+P to start the print process.
3 - click on the PDF button and select "Save PDF to iPhoto".
Note: If you don't have any of those options go to Toad's Cellar and download these two files:
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Unzip the files and place in the HD/Library/PDF Services folder and reboot.
4 - select either of the files above (the 300 dpi setting is primarily for images bound for iPhoto.books).
5 - in the window that comes up enter an album name or select an existing album and hit the Continue button.
That will create a 200 or 300 dpi jpeg file of the item being printed and import it into iPhoto.
Open iDVD and create a slideshow with the "+" button. Go to the Media/Photos browser at the right and drag the album with the PP pages into the slideshow window.
NOTE: if there are more than 99 slides in the presentation this method will result in a pause at slide 100 due to the fact that DVD standards only allow 99 chapters in any slideshow and each slide is considered a chapter. iDVD gets around this limitation by renumbering slide 100 back to 1 and so forth. The pause can be minimized, but not eliminated, by following the workflow below:
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.
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Good Codec for a text only video to export to iDVD

I am making a video entirely of text because it's a transcript of a 911 call.
I have saved it to a few different codecs- NTSC/ DV, 8 bit compression, animation, graphics and when I burn it to a DVd using iDVD, it looks like garbage.
It's a combination of Boris 3D, regular text and a livetype background.
Any ideas?

18 pixel high text is too small. Even if I have just a couple of lines of static text, then I never go smaller than 22 pix.
Your text only video should probably be more like 26-28 pixel text. Tiny text can get irritating very quickly for the viewer, especially if it is moving and it won't hold up to compression at all.

IDVD Werid Text! (Image Inside)

Hey Guys I just bought a new imac. I have been using idvd and noticed sometimes in the menus the text looks really freaky werid/un readable. http://home.iprimus.com.au/mcooper87/iDVDWeridText.jpg what do you think it happening? This only happens from time to time

Im having the same problem with the scrambled text. Exact same thing happens when im working with iDVD. It just happens randomly, sometimes its fine, other times its scrambled. I tried burning the dvd projects and iDVD burns them like that too. When i play it back you cant read the text. Ive done 2 projects to see if itll do it again and same problem. Can anyone help? I want to make a dvd which someone can read. PS this problem is on my brand new mac that is only 3 days old, the new silver and black one.

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