IPhoto to IDVD Slideshow problem

I made a slideshow ( 2900) photos from IPHOTO to IDVD ( used SEND TO IDVD for IPHOTO menu ) it took 6hrs.+ to complete the DVD, i did not save the project in IDVD but thhe system used 30 gig of hard disc space anyone known how i can recover the ( LOST ? DISAPEARED ) space
I'm usin OSX 10.4.6 and ILIFE 06
Thank You for ANY help
( I called APPLE but got NO HELP )

2900 photos! - that's quite a show.
Try to use the find-file to find:
Size greater than 500MB then hit the "+" button to add another criteria
Choose other, and then set visibility to "visible or invisible"
Then find and see what comes up....should find large temp files for iDVD.
Just be careful what you delete!

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I have 268 photos that I want to make into a slideshow. I understand how I can make a new slideshow in iDVD and simply add the folder of photos from iPhoto and let iDVD do its thing.
However, I've read many posts about quality (or lack thereof) so I would like to ask the experts what's the best way to get the highest quality slideshow to DVD to show on my (NTSC) HDTV, as well as my mother's old (PAL) 4:3 CRT dinosaur.
These photos are a mixed bag. Some were taken with a point and shoot and come in at 2 or 3 MBs. Others I shot on my dSLR as RAW and come in at up to 100MB TIFFs!
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Hi
I do this another way but can share some thoughts.
• iDVD has a limit in it's SlideShow function of 99 photos per Show (You can have more than one SlideShow)
(and You can put in more than 99 photos - but then strange things occures and iDVD ill behaves)
• iDVD - As I get it rather wants .jpg photos - avoid .bmp (and I don't use .tiff or raw either - I convert all to .jpg)
(If You think that You lose quality - then You have to know that DVD is as standard only SD-Video whatever program used to encode it - so .jpeg is much more than the DVD can playback anyhow.)
I do my SlideShows in a video-editor and then I prefer
• iMovie up to HD6 - or -
• FinalCut any version - or -
• FotoMagico™ (included in Roxio Toast™ Pro bundle)
I avoid - iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - as they discard every second line when exporting over to iDVD however I try to do it.
In a Video-editor - I can have as many photos as I like and 100% control over Audio and transitions etc.
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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.
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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.
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To answer your question directly, the DVD standard is 99 chapters. iDVD works around this limitation by resetting chapter 100 and starting over at 1 again.
You can always create your slideshow in iPhoto, iMovie or a 3rd party slideshow app like PhotoPresenter, Fotomagico, etc. or save it as a QT movie file and add the movie file to an iDVD slideshow.
Here's a good link that OT has set up as a good example while using PhotoPresenter:
http://web.me.com/toad.hall/Demo3/PhotoPresenterThemes.html
Like I mentioned above, there are a number of third party apps that work just as well if you search this forum for additional examples.
Hope this helps but if not jusrt come on back.
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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.

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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.
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IS this your Hard Disk is full?
OS X needs about 10 gigs of HD space to function normally. It uses this space for things like Virtual Memory and temporary files and other OS operations.
I have cleared out all extraneous files, so there should be room on the disc
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