Iphoto on dvd

I saved photos on a dvd using iphoto. When I try to access the photos from the dvd I get this message, “The disk does not allow more burns. Please insert a different disk.” Then the dvd is rejected. How do I view these files?

jesusistruth wrote:
I saved photos on a dvd using iphoto. When I try to access the photos from the dvd I get this message, “The disk does not allow more burns. Please insert a different disk.” Then the dvd is rejected. How do I view these files?
That message implies that you are trying to write files to the DVD - if you restart your system t be sure nothing is going on and insert it it should mount to the desktop and if you open it with iPhoto you should be able to see your photos
LN

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Can´t back up from iPhoto to DVD. Unexpected error code 0x8002006E

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In iPhoto, select the photos, albums, or video clips you want to burn to a disc.
Choose File > Export.
In the Export Photos window, click File Export, and then select your options.For best results, choose JPEG, Maximum, and Full Size. For more information, see Export a photo.
When you’re ready, click Export, and export the photos to a folder on your computer.
When the export is finished, quit iPhoto.
Click the Finder icon in the Dock, and then insert a CD-RW disc or a blank CD-R or DVD-R disc into your drive.
Drag the folder that contains your exported photos to the disc’s icon.
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I found this:
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Parksy:
When you export a slideshow to iDVD you're compressing and encoding it in Quicktime to 640 x 480 pixels. Then in iDVD there's additional encoding which can compress it further depending on the size. What you're seeing in iPHoto are the full sized files being used. A big difference.
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If you can't live without the KB effect here are some tips from one of the top iMovie gurus on getting the best slideshows in iDVD from iMovie and iPhoto:
Karl Peterson’s Best Method to Create a Slideshow in iDVD
Here are my requirements for a slideshow: More than 99 photos. Music matched up to individual slides throughout the show (so idvd is out for creating the slideshow).
As everyone knows, the tough part is synching the slides to the music. iMovie 4's Bookmarks feature makes that pretty convenient. Here's one approach:
• Be sure iMovie preferences are set to "Enable Timeline snapping" and "Play snap sounds". We'll use those features later to help fit the slides to the music.
• Import the audio first. Save.
• Set iMovie to timeline view.
• Next, we create a series of bookmarks that matches the beat of the music for the entire movie. As the music plays, hold down the Command key (Apple key) and press the B key wherever you think a change of slide feels appropriate. There are no rules. You want a change of slides when it "feels" right. Don't worry about adding a few too many bookmarks; you can ignore some later.
• Play the music from start to finish, watching to see if your bookmarks still look right. If not, close the project without saving, then redo them. If they look right, Save.
• Create the leading title, if any. Set its length to match the first bookmark.
• Turn off Ken Burns (so stills aren't rendered into clips). Set the KB duration to something convenient to work with, like 5 seconds. Import the first image.
• Using iMovie's nondestructive editing, drag the right end of the image to match the second bookmark. Our preferences will cause iMovie to snap the slide to the bookmark.
• Repeat with each new slide, dragging it to match the next bookmark. Note you can import several slides together, place them in the order you want, then drag each to fit the bookmark.
• Play the movie occasionally to see if it looks right. You want to get it right the first time for it's hard to go back.
• After all the images have been added, everything should play with the proper synch. Now you are ready to start your real editing.
• Where you want image animation instead of a still, swap the still image for an animated Ken Burns zoom/pan of that image. Click on a thumbnail and turn on KB. KB will default to that duration. Configure your KB zoom/pan and Apply, which converts the timeline still into a clip (if it has animation). You can edit that thumbnail as many times as you need.
• When all the clips are done, we're ready to add transitions. Note that some transitions add new frames to a movie, which is NOT what you want. They will mess up your synch. Try Overlap, which does NOT add frames. Set the Overlap duration to whatever you want, then apply it between two slides or, if you wish, to all the selected clips.
• If there are stills that were never converted into clips be very careful burning the DVD. Do NOT press the Create iDVD Project button. That renders the stills into very poor quality clips with lots of jaggies. Instead, manually drag the project.mov into the iDVD window.
Hope I haven't missed a step, but you get the idea. It's probably a good idea to try this first on a small project.
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To get started, here's an overview of key factors affecting image quality. To maximize still image quality in iMovie 4.0, try this:
1. In iMovie preferences (playback quality section) turn on both "High quality (better image)" AND "Enhanced video playback". Otherwise the movie iMovie sends to iDVD is not best quality.
2. The minimum image size is 640x480 for NTSC (768x576 for PAL), but anything larger should be okay.
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d. Click the Finish button. Drag the zoom thumb to 1.00.
e. Drag the Duration thumb to 10 seconds. (Which may be more than you usually need, but start there.)
f. Press the Apply button or drag the image to the timeline.
g. After the clip is rendered, trim off the last second (or more, if it's not needed). That's where all the zoom is. What's left is a very high quality "still" clip of your image.
If you add transitions, trimming may be unnecessary. The transition may hide the zoom.
Note: after applying this settings to a clip, clicking on that clip will cause KB to adopt these settings for the next import.
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EXPLANATION
iMovie will offer to render UNrendered stills when you click the "Create iDVD Project" button. That's when iMovie renders a very low quality clip, containing lots of jaggies. That's NOT what you want for your DVD. Instead, you want a clip rendered by the Ken Burns Effect, which has great clarity.
Note that Ken Burns does NOT render a still when:
a. Ken Burns Effect is turned OFF; or
b. Ken Burns Effect is turned ON but there is no animated zoom or animated pan. That's why we apply a small zoom.
Using a small zoom-out animation causes Ken Burns to put all the zoom at the end, where it can be trimmed off.
Stills rendered after clicking the "Create iDVD Project" button cannot be improved. Re-import using the method described above.
This describes a way to include an iPhoto slideshow in an iMovie HD project.
WHY USE iPHOTO?
Photo 5 lets you easily make great slideshows. You can automatically include very high quality random Ken Burns Effects on all slides, for example, and include several nice transitions not offered by iMovie HD. You can override default slideshow settings for individual images. (You can't add titles, of course, and include multiple songs, which is why you may want to use iMovie HD too.)
SUMMARY
The iPhoto slideshow will be exported to an MPEG-4 movie (720x480). To better prepare that movie for import into iMovie HD, it will be opened in QuickTime Player Pro and exported to a different movie format. (QuickTime Pro is required, $30 from Apple.)
If you don't have QT Pro you can import the MPEG-4 movie directly to the iMovie HD DV project, but the quality of titles and transitions won't be as good. If the background video of titles is flawed, create titles over black, which will look fine. Placing titles over nom-animated still images also helps avoid problems, so if you know which images will receive the title, turn off Ken Burns for that photo in iPhoto and increase the play time to accept the title in iMovie HD.
MAKING THE iPHOTO SLIDESHOW
Create a slideshow in iPhoto.
KEN BURNS
To include a random Ken Burns Effect for all images:
• Click the "Settings" button.
• Turn ON "Automatic Ken Burns Effect"
(Note you can also adjust the KBE below each image.)
TRANSITIONS
To set the default transition between slides:
• Click on the "Settings" button
• Choose a default transition.
(Note you can also change to a different transition below each image.)
AUDIO
To avoid audio problems later in iMovie HD, it may be best to NOT include music in the exported slideshow. Rather, import the song to your iMovie HD project.
If you want iPhoto to export the slideshow to fit the length of a song, here's how:
• Click the "Settings" button.
• Turn on "Fit Slideshow to Music"
• Click the Music button and select the song.
• After importing the iPhoto movie to the iMovie HD project, extract the audio.
EXPORT FROM iPHOTO
Choose Share>Export, 720x480. iPhoto will export the slideshow to an MPEG-4 movie. Except for the dimensions, there are no other export options.
EXPORT FROM QUICKTIME PLAYER PRO
Open the MPEG-4 movie in QuickTime Player and export to a QT format better suited for iMovie HD. (QuickTime Pro is required, $30 from Apple.)
- Choose File > Export
- Choose "Movie from QuickTime Movie" from the popup menu.
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- For PAL, "choose DVCPRO PAL" from the popUp menu, set Frames per second to 25.
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CREATE YOUR iMOVIE HD "DV" PROJECT
• Create a new iMovie HD project of the "DV" type. (Choose the project type in the disclosure arrow at the bottom of the dialog where you name the project.)
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• If a DVD is your goal, now is the time to burn it. If you see problems played on a TV -- pauses or audio problems -- try exporting the iMovie HD project to a "Full Quality" movie, then drag THAT movie to the iDVD window.
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Moving photos back into iphoto from DVD back-up

I have lost several hundred photos (through my own error). I have them backed up on DVD in the iphoto format. Iphoto recognizes the disk when I put it in.
I'm wondering the best way to transfer these photos back onto my computer and into my iphoto library. Drag and drop?
The thumbnails of the lost photos remain in my iphoto on my computer so I was thinking of rebuilding the thumbnail cache (which iphoto sometimes prompts me to do when I open it) before I import. (how would I do this?)
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Just drag the disk image onto the Library icon in the left hand pane and your photos will be imported into the library in the Events and albums that they were in when you backed them up.
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As Terence mentioned slideshows created directly in iDVD from stills will, IMO, create a sharper final slideshow in iDVD.
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If you have access to iMovie 6 HD it provides a much better vehicle for adding multiple audio tracks to the slideshow, allowing for fading in and out, cropping, etc.
Click to view full size
Note: If you drag your iMovie project file into an iDVD slideshow window you can have it scaled to the TV safe area like you can with stills and not lose any to TV overscan on CRT type of TV sets. You can also mix stills with video clips in an iDVD slideshow.
Click to view full size
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 versions) 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. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. 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.
NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

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If I create a slideshow in iPhoto & import to iDVD, can I add the imported images from the slideshow to DVD-ROM

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