IPhoto and iDVD project is missing

I recently worked very hard on an editing problem for a friend and (since I am new to macs) noticed that there isn't a save tab on the iPhoto menu, this was not a problem though as I noticed that when I reopened iPhoto all of my worked was saved. I went back into iPhoto to make a few changes to the slide presentation that I was making and now it's GONE! Everything I worked on for the past few weeks is gone...just gone. It's late and I'm upset. I found the pictures in the picture library, but without the completed iDVD menu I have created. The iDVD file exists, but when I play it it tells me that it is a broken link. Also when I open iDVD i am told that there are several missing files. I did not delete ANYTHING! before I exited out of iPhoto and am wondering where everything went to.
Signed,
VERY VERY UPSET

I'd try using Disk Utility to repair the external disk. Hopefully it will be able to repair any damage. (Disk Utility is in your Applications/Utility folder.
If you have the disk utility DiskWarrior, try that too.
Karl

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Can someone please tell me a simple but effective method for burning a slideshow to DVD? Now that the connection between iPhoto and iDVD no longer exists, I can't figure out a way to get there with an acceptable quality result.

Can someone please tell me a simple but effective method for burning a slideshow to DVD? Now that the connection between iPhoto and iDVD no longer exists, I can't figure out a way to get there with an acceptable quality result.

Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
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 qualty 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 retailier 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:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
OT

IPhoto and iDVD won't open after I reinstalled iLife '08

I was unhappy with iMovie '08, so I tried to load an older version from my iLife '05. However, it copied over all of my iLife '08 apps. I was hoping it would give me the option of just installing the iMovie app. Everything opened except for iPhoto and iDVD. I then reinstalled iLife '08, to try and fix the problem, from the bundled software that came with the computer. But still, iPhoto and iDVD don't open. Here's what iPhoto report says...
Process: iPhoto [3437]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-3540000~2
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [68]
Date/Time: 2008-02-01 07:26:47.404 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/UpgradeChecker.framework/Versions/A/UpgradeCheck er
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Reason: image not found
And here's what iDVD says:
Process: iDVD [3453]
Path: /Applications/iDVD.app/Contents/MacOS/iDVD
Identifier: com.apple.iDVD
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: iDVD-10910000~6
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [68]
Date/Time: 2008-02-01 07:45:53.433 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/Oxygene.framework/Versions/A/Oxygene
Referenced from: /Applications/iDVD.app/Contents/MacOS/iDVD
Reason: image not found
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

delete all of your iLife applications and your iLife receipts - do not do anything with your iPhoto library
Install iLife '08 and go to the Apple downloads page and download iPhoto 06 (a free download for iLife '08 owners) and install it and you will have the best of both worlds iLife '08 and iMovie 06
LN

Lost iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD when hard drive crashed.

I owned my iMac since 2007 and my first OS was 10.4. As far back then, my iMac came with iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD already installed. Since 2011, I had OS 10.6 on my iMac. Two weekends ago, my hard drive crashed and lost many applications, including iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD. I still had a copy of 10.6 on a disc and reinstalled it and even updated it to the version I had before my HD crashed. I notice that iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD are not in my computer anymore.
I visited the download section on the Apple website and have found versions of iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD that would be compatable with OS 10.6.8, but for some reason I can't install them. I was able to install iPhoto, but can't open it. I can't even install iDVD. I haven't tried to install iMovie.
Is there any way I can install these applications I lost? I realize purchasing a new copy of iLife is one option, but the version that is out now is not compatable with OS 10.6.8.

I visited the download section on the Apple website and have found versions of iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD that would be compatable with OS 10.6.8, but for some reason I can't install them.
These are not applications. They are updaters for the applications.
You will have got a disk with your Mac that had the applications on it. You can reinstall from that.

I lost all my photos in iphoto and picture project

I have a Mac OS X version 10.3.9, and the iphoto is version 4.0.3
i emptied my trash, and then went through the applications and deleted the ones i don't use (such as PDA and palm pilot applications and the games that i will never play). After i was done, i went back to iphoto and all the albums and pictures were gone. I went into picture project (a nikon software) and those pictures were gone, but had the little boxes of blank pictures. My desktop originally had a picture on it that i downloaded from a camera was gone as well. when i logged onto another account those pictures were still there. When i logged back onto my account, my desktop picture came back, leading me to believe that my pictures are still there. But those are gone too. Is there anyway i can retrive my pictures? I really hope they are not gone! I have too many pictures...and only half of them backed up! =(

i'm talking about the desktop trash. I don't know how to empty the iphoto trash.
No, i didn't delete anything with iphoto. i know i can delete duplicates, and still keep one of the pictures, i have done that before. I did delete Chess, Deimos Rising, Ambrosia Software Web, Kinoma, Palm, PDA Shop Lists, PDA Money, PDA Safe ID, Splash ID, Splash Money, Splash Shopper.
I logged under a different user name, and all those pictures were still in iphoto and picture project.
No, i did not contradict myself. The desk top picture did come back, leading me to believe that all the photos were still there. However, when i checked the iphoto and picture project, those were still gone.

IPhoto and iDVD are crashing after pushing the application icon

Hi, I´ve got some serious troubles with iPhoto and iDVD after I updated iLife to the current version. Of course I performed an online update in addition. As soon I try to start one of the applications each of them crashes immediately. I already deleted the udder and system caches, it didn´t cause any improvement. Hope sone of you guys has a solution.
Marc

Do you mean this?
Process: iPhoto [2096]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-4750000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [687]
Date/Time: 2010-11-23 17:22:28.584 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 89770 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 18
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 15
Anonymous UUID: C41AECD1-0A96-4CFE-841F-5A52C65E5782
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/iLifeFaceRecognit ion
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4162b dyld 132.1 (???) <A4F6ADCC-6448-37B4-ED6C-ABB2CD06F448> /usr/lib/dyld
Model: iMac6,1, BootROM IM61.0093.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.16 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.10f3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, PCIe, 128 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x87), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: ST3250824AS Q, 232,89 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-85J
USB Device: iPhone, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1294, 0xfd500000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8501, 0xfd400000
USB Device: EyeTV DTT, 0x0fd9, 0x0021, 0xfd300000
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.), 0x0606, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1003, 0xfd120000
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x020c, 0xfd123000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8206, 0x7d100000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8240, 0x7d200000

Viewing and idvd project on another computer

How would you be able to get your dvd to appear on any computer before the state of it being burned into a dvd.
In addition, I am trying to show a teacher my dvd and he can't view it cause I use idvd 6 and his is idvd 4. How can I get it to view on idvd 4? And would the error happen also with idvd 5?

Hi Midnight Pharaoh,
And welcome to apple discussions. Don't think it's possible to view an iDVD project in the works on a PC to the best of my knowledge. The only way I am aware of to view an iDVD prior to the burn stage on the computer (mac only) and assuming you have the same version of iDVD loaded to multiple macs is thru the iDVD preview function or thru a disk image that will play on a mac (not sure if a disk image will also play on a PC or not) assuming the mac system also meets the specs for the iDVD app/version you are currently using.
You can create an iDVD4 project on your mac and then if another mac has a later version of the same app (iDVD only), it will automatically update the project folder to the iDVD version/ mac you are working on. But once this is updated, you can't reverse or show an iDVD5 on a machine that only has iDVD4 (w/o also updating the app on said machine to iDVD5) Same thing applies when working on or viewing an iDVD5 to iDVD6. You can go forward but never backwards.
Hope this info is helpful
SDMacuser

Can I share (email/YouTube) and iDVD project?

Need to send my iDVD project to someone whether email or web, is this possible?

I also would like to email my IDVD project to a friend. Is this possible?

IPhoto and iDVD working together

I've just finished organizing about 500 photos in iPhoto 6. I wanted to export them directly to iDVD, but was unable to, so I exported them to a Quicktime movie and then into iDVD.
However, I want to add "titles" so we remember where we were, etc., and I don't know how to do it. Obviously, I could do it if I exported to iMovie, but I didn't see that option, and actually, the Quicktime to iDVD gives a nice slideshow effect that I like.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
susan

Hello Susan,
you cannot directly export your photos/slideshow to iMovie. you can however
1. export as QT movie, then import that into a new iMovie project
2. create a new iMovie project and import your pictures from the "Photos" tab. by doing so you can apply all the same effects and transitions as in iMovie.
if you choose option 2, be aware that there seems to be a bug described in this thread by Karl Petersen:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2105598&#2105598
if you mainly work with photos you might want to have a look at a software that seems to be doing a very good job:
Pictures to Movie
http://lqgraphics.com/software/
hope this helps
viva la mela

Will iPhoto and iDVD work on Yosemite from Snow Leopard

Having something from browsers (Firefox) trying to open a program I did not authorize (shut the computer down and saw the "open box" icon and asking if I want to abort or keep going, computer shut it down) or Gmail does not support my version of Safari anymore, worried about security if I use it. So thinking of updating the operating system. I have a Mac Mini and fall into the parameters to upgrade. Finding sketchy information on issues with iDVD or iPhoto when upgrading. Am I causing issues with those programs if up go to Yosemite? I know my Microsoft office won't work, but it is over 12 years old so I should probably upgrade it anyway. Also wondering if Garage Band will keep working. Thanks.

In my opinion I would recommend purchasing an external hard drive that is the same capacity as your computer's hard drive. Then clone you computer's drive to the external drive:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
If you need to restore your old system, then boot the computer from the clone, erase the internal drive, and restore the clone:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Source means the external backup drive. Destination means the internal startup drive. Note that the Source and Destination are reversed.
To boot from the clone:
Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
      "OPTION" key.
3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
4. Select the disk icon for the disk with the clone.
5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.

I movie will not open and my project is missing

I'm getting "a project file is missing" message when I try to open the movie I've been working on. It says "The file “_” couldn’t be opened and is being skipped. Click “Ignore All” to skip any remaining missing file messages." I click ignore all and iMovie quits. I've been saving my movie to an external hard drive, which got unplugged before saving my latest changes and imports. I'm sure getting unplugged is the cause of my problem but I don't know how to fix it. The file still shows up as being on the external hard drive but I can't get it to open. And now imovie will not open at all. The external hardrive is compatible with my mac.
Thank you.

I'd try using Disk Utility to repair the external disk. Hopefully it will be able to repair any damage. (Disk Utility is in your Applications/Utility folder.
If you have the disk utility DiskWarrior, try that too.
Karl

UPDATED TO OS X 10.5.8 FROM 10.4.11 AND NOW IPHOTO AND IDVD WON' T WORK

Can't seem to find any updates for same. Any ideas?

Hi Don.
You are most likely using the older version of iLife, which was made for Tiger, and will not work with Leopard. Did you happen to get iLife '08 with Leopard?

Slideshow project shared from iPhoto causes iDVD to crash

I've searched the forum and found a few threads that sounded like they pertained to this issue, but I didn't see much discussion beyond the question or any answers that had confirmations that they solved the problem.
I've created a slideshow project in iPhoto '08 (version 7.1.5), and I used the "Send to iDVD" option from the "Share" menu to send it to iDVD '08 (version 7.0.4). The export appears to work, a menu button appears in iDVD, and I'm able to work in iDVD to make changes to the theme, menu text, etc. However, if I try to actually view the slideshow movie in iDVD (either by double clicking on the menu button in the iDVD interface, or by using the "Preview DVD playback" button and then choosing the movie from the DVD menu), iDVD crashes. This is happening consistently. I've gone to my Movies folder and found the exported movie file that iPhoto created. This plays back in QuickTime Player just fine. If I add the movie to my iDVD project manually (as opposed to using the "Send to iDVD" option in iPhoto), it still causes iDVD to crash if I try to preview it.
Out of curiosity I brought a non-iPhoto generated QuickTime movie into iDVD, and it played back with no problem. I checked the compression format. The movie that worked was an Apple Motion JPG A movie file. I tried another non-iPhoto generated QuickTime movie file. This time iDVD crashed again. I noticed that this second non-iPhoto generated movie file said it was using the "Apple MPEG4 Decompressor" which is the same format as the movie file that iPhoto did create. I then tried an Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2 QuickTime movie file and that worked just fine. Is that the problem? Apple MPEG-4 Decompressor movie files cause iDVD to crash? Could that really be possible when this is the format that iPhoto uses when exporting? Is there a solution? I don't see a way to select a different compression format when exporting/sharing a slideshow from iPhoto.
I discovered this problem while teaching a class to 12 students who don't know much about doing creative projects on a Mac. There are going to be 12 folks who don't think very much of Apple's computers and/or its software if I don't get this problem solved quickly (last day of class is tomorrow). Everything has been going along swimmingly up until this final step of getting the slideshow into iDVD and then burning it to take home. I'm stunned that this isn't working since I've never run into this problem before, but it's happening consistently with every workstation I've tried here in this lab. All computers are running iLife '08. We're all trying to do the same thing. Slideshow project created in iPhoto, trying to send it to iDVD for burning. I been doing stuff with iPhoto and iDVD for years without problems, so I didn't think I needed to run through an entire process here in this lab before teaching the class. I just expected everything to work like it always does. D'oh!
Help!

UPDATE:
In case you're interested.... Just because iDVD crashes when I try to preview my slideshow movie from iPhoto doesn't mean I can't successfully burn my DVD project to disc. I was skeptical, but it works. The burn process went off without a hitch, and the DVD plays back using Mac OS X's built-in DVD Player.
Another workaround is to use the "OneStep DVD from Movie..." option in the iDVD file menu and avoid working inside of iDVD.
Someone suggested that perhaps my trouble was connected to using a legacy theme as opposed to one of the newest 7.0 themes. Any truth to that?
Just because I can burn a DVD successfully doesn't mean I wouldn't still like to fix the crash problem if possible. I'm grateful that I now know that I can work around the crashing problem, but I do think it's something that should be fixed and not just avoided.

Can iDVD 09 open and work with an iDVD project i made in 06?

I am bringing over my iMovie 06 and iDVD projects over to new mac with iDVD 09. I took out iMovie 09 and resinstalled 06HD. The iMovie 06 files now open ok, but not the iDVD 06 projects, when I try to open them with iDVD 09. Should I remove iDVD 09 and install iDVD 06.
I heard that iMovie 06 files will import ok into iDVD 09, but now assuming that the iDVD 06 projects themselves will not open in the newer program.

i uninstalled iDVD 09 and installed iDVD 06 to see if I could open the G4's old iDVD projects.
Error message says iDVD 06 will not work with this OS. What gives? Apparently iMovie HD06 will work, as far as I can tell, with just a few tests.
What CAN I DO HERE to bring over my iDVD 06 projects so I can work them on Snow Leopard?
Luckily the dvd projects are not many and not complex. But there are so many issues with all of this. I might as well have a computer that knows only Chinese characters. I got the new mac so my video work wouldnt clog up on the old G4. But this is beyond clog. This is cement, stuck at the starting gate.

Want the best quality imovie/idvd project

Hi all
Just imported a video from my Sony digital8 cam using imovie. I'm having a little troubele deciding from idvd or imovie, which is the right direction? Can someone share a good home video back up system? I'm trying to import my home videos from my Sony digital8 camcorder

+I'm having a little troubele deciding from idvd or imovie, which is the right direction?+
It depends on what you want as an end result.
iMovie is an editing program so that you can crop your movies, add titles, effects, transitions, add still photos and audio files.
iDVD is an authoring program so that you can create a burned DVD disk of your videos, photos, etc. You create your movies in iMovie and then drop the finished movie into an iDVD project to burn it to a DVD disk so that you/others can view it on a TV from a set-top DVD player. iDVD has to compress data when it is burned, so you don't want to be burning DVDs to preserve your home videos if you want to edit them later in iMovie.
If you just want to burn them to back them up and you don't want/need to do any editing, you might want to look into just using a stand-alone DVD recorder. You could connect your dig8 camcorder and record to DVD disk directly.
You can also use iDVD to create slideshows and burn them.
You should go to Apple's support site for iLife and watch the tutorial videos for both iDVD and iMovie 6:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/idvd/index.html
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
+Can someone share a good home video back up system?+
Again, it depends on what end result you want. Some people think that they want to import all their video footage into iMovies, and save all of it on their computers. However, that requires HUGE amounts of drive space. Each of my iMovies runs from 25-60 GB. It is better to import the footage for each movie at a time, as you work on your iMovie.
A large external drive just for doing movies is a great idea. Get as large a drive as you can afford! Be sure to format it for macs first before importing anything. Keep the iMovie and iDVD apps on your main drive.
I. Save your original raw digital 8 tapes. Data is already in digital format. Be sure to keep your camcorder so you can reimport if you want. If you really want a back up for these original tapes, you can connect your dig 8 camcorder to a miniDV camcorder and record to miniDV tapes. I did this for my VHS tapes as they were getting too old and I was concerned about further degradation. I like having a digital format of my original video VHS and Hi 8 tapes. This may not be necessary for you since all your tapes are already digital.
2. Import videos into iMovie, doing just one movie at a time to save drive space, edit, then export the movie to miniDV tapes with a miniDV camcorder. This process gives you tape(s) of your EDITED iMovie. I use these tapes as a backup for my iMovies, since I delete my iMovies after exporting them and after I have burned my DVD of that movie. (See next).
3. Create iDVD projects from edited iMovies, do 'save as disk image' for each one so that you have an image file of all your projects. Since disk images are self-contained, you can safely delete the original iMovie and iDVD projects without losing the ability to burn DVDs in the future. It also saves drive space. Use the disk image file for the actual burning of the DVD disk, using Disk Utility.
Now you have a set of raw original tapes, a set of edited mini DV tapes, a burned DVD and the disk image file of each project. You should copy all the disk images to another external drive as a backup.
I don't worry about backing up the DV tapes, as I can always reimport them. The tapes are small and store easily. It is recommended for longer life of the tapes that you get them out once a year and rewind them, but I have not been doing that.
Yes, you can take one of your burned DVD disks and create a disk image from it, and use it to burn more disks, but that means that your future burns depend on that disk staying in good shape until you want it. DVD disks can crack, break, melt, etc depending on who uses them. I prefer to know that my disk images are saved and backed up for when I need them.

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