IMovie to iDVD lost audio

I tried searching and couldn't find anthing and I'm not sure if this is an iMovie problem or iDVD problem.
I made a movie in iMovie using video clips I converted to DV streams using MPEG Streamclip. I also added some music from my iTunes library to the movie.
Everything plays fine in iMovie, but when I play or preview the movie in iDVD there is no sound at all including the songs from iTunes.
I went ahead and added some music to the iDVD theme and burned a dvd.
When I play the dvd there is sound for the music I added to the theme, but still no audio anywhere else when I actualy play the movie.
What am I missing?

I bought iLife 06 because I thought the problem was due to some themes I added to iDVD.
Everything worked out great and I still have the added themes. Not one problem.
The only problem is the whole process to burn the movie from iDVD takes twice as long and still hangs up on the audio encoding process. I knew this before I bought it.
Of course, I used the latest themes , threw in a clip for every floating window, , music on top of that, submenus, and many scenes.
It took me about 6 hours to burn it with great results.
Thanks for all the help.
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Yes and No.
There are Bugs and ways to make better or Worse DVDs - see if this can help.
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• There MUST NOT BE any Chapter mark set in very beginning of the Movie - or in any transition or within 2 seconds from them.
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
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• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
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6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
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(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
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You have one day more for Your project than in Sweden as Santa has to start
somewhere and home is close. (We start at about 15.00 24 of dec).
I would start with - if the music is bought from iTune store (a fix for a known
problem) to save it out as an audio CD (.aiff) else it will look OK till You try
Your DVD disk = No sound.
Then I would start a new iMovie project and from media button select photos
and drop one start photo from iPhoto down into timeline. Then I would import
the music from the new CD.
Cont to put photos one at a time into timeline. Change duration so that they
match the tempo in Your movie.
Transitions
Effects
etc.
Save from time to time to keep safe.
When the "movie" is done - close iMovie and open iDVD and drop Your movie
project icon into this - or - use the import function in iDVD.
DON'T Share/Export from iMovie to iDVD - it will destroy Your movie by a bad
rendering work. iDVD does this so much better.
I don't know any way to use the "themes" in iDVD into iMovie. Sorry
Merry Christmas !!!
Yours Bengt W

Help with imovie and idvd

first time at this so i'm sorry. i have my movie exactly how i want it in imovie, no themes, nothing but video clips and audio clips. can i burn this just as it is without haveing to have themes or anything like that when i share it with idvd? help me with this please. i would be greatly appreciative. thanks-b

there're two sorts of themes:
iMovie themes
iDVD themes...
no need to create an iMovie with themes..
on a videoDVD, you usually have a 'menu', from which the viewer can choose movies, slideshows, director's cut.. etc.pp. ... so, this is a common Q at the iDVD section of this board...
there are 5 known workarounds, to create with iDVD a no-theme, autostart videoDVD,.. follow advices and links in this threat
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4756168

IDVD - No Audio in Disc Image

Hi,
I've started experiencing this issue with version 6.0.3. When I save my iDVD project as a Disc Image and play it on my computer, there is no audio (volume) when the video plays. First time, I didn't bother to test the disc image and burnt it to a DVD and found that there was no audio when I played it with my DVD player. But then when I directly tested the disc image, there was no audio in it either.
I went through a few posts on this discussion forum. One of them suggested using an earlier theme from 5.0. I tried that too with the same result. For some reason, there is no audio in the disc image. When I play the footage directly in iDVD, it plays fine with full audio, so I don't think there is any issue with the way it was exported from iMovie to iDVD.
I've used the same DV video camera before to import to iMovies and and then export to iDVD. I've never had this problem before. Anyone else facing this issue?
Also, I have tried exporting to Quicktime directly from iMovie and I get a pop up saying some unknown error was encountered.
Please help!

Hi,
I've started experiencing this issue with version
6.0.3. When I save my iDVD project as a Disc Image
and play it on my computer, there is no audio
(volume) when the video plays. First time, I didn't
bother to test the disc image and burnt it to a DVD
and found that there was no audio when I played it
with my DVD player. But then when I directly tested
the disc image, there was no audio in it either.
I went through a few posts on this discussion forum.
One of them suggested using an earlier theme from
5.0. I tried that too with the same result. For some
reason, there is no audio in the disc image. When I
play the footage directly in iDVD, it plays fine with
full audio, so I don't think there is any issue with
the way it was exported from iMovie to iDVD.
I've used the same DV video camera before to import
to iMovies and and then export to iDVD. I've never
had this problem before. Anyone else facing this
issue?
Also, I have tried exporting to Quicktime directly
from iMovie and I get a pop up saying some unknown
error was encountered.
Please help!
I've had the same problem (as have many others), and I've found both an odd related symptom and a weird fix, not mentioned in any of the posts I've seen. I also use iDVD6.0.3.
First, the odd symptom: after you build the non-working disk image, check the VIDEO_TS files that it produced. In my case, they all had a date-time stamp about 36 hours into the future. From a programmer's viewpoint, this looks suspiciously like a memory leak (i.e. data overflowing its allocated bounds and corrupting some program instructions or other critical data).
Second, the weird fix: I have an iBook that still has iDVD5 on board. I used that to suck in the iMovie6 project, and it built a working disk image with no problem at all. (And the dates on the VIDEO_TS files were sensible.)
In my opinion, this is a major bug in iDVD6.
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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