Is this the best it can do?

I just burned out a 12 minute movie thru IDVD and got 14 flash frames, either white, or where a photo from elsewhere pops up for a moment.
I burned an IPhoto slideshow to a Quick Time Movie, then put that into an IDVD project at Professional Quality.
What accounts for the flash frames?
If I burn this out again, am I just going to get new flash frames in different places?
I get that all this software is consumer-grade, but even consumers want a DVD that people can watch, that's the whole point isn't it?
Yikes.
D

Hi Douglas,
I was having the same issue. I have a business (http://www.itunesmylife.com) where I convert customers home videos into iTunes compatible formats so they can play them on iPod, iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV. Many of customers still wanted the DVD copies. I was getting very poor quality with my own photo slideshows and HD video content when I tried to make DVD copies. I think I finally fixed the problem.
1. From iMovie '09, I export using Quicktime with the following settings:
Compression Type: Apple Intermediate Codec
Frame Rate: Current
Compressor Preset: HDV 720p
Size: 1280 x 720 HD
Checked Preserve aspect ratio using Letterbox
Checked Deinterlace Source Video
2. I am not sure if this step is necessary but I had read in the forum that the old version of iMovie '06 had "lossless" transfer to iDVD. I import the ".MOV" file from Step 1 into iMovie '06. iMovie project settings are DV-NTSC-Widescreen.
3. After the import completes. I drag the clip to the timeline and then share directly to iDVD '09.
4. From iDVD '09, I choose profession quality and burn the image to Disk.
The DVD contained photos and video and looks terrific on HD television. Prior to this approach, the quality was very "jagged" and poor. It almost looked like the video had been "double-interlaced" which is why I think the "deinterlace" export from iMovie may have done the trick.
I hope this works for you. Let me know. I am here to help

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2 FOR
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Is this the best Adobe e-Learning can do?

Please hold as we route your chat to an Adobe Representative.
Welcome to Adobe.com! My name is Carol. May I assist you with your selection today?
Carol: Hi, How are you doing today?
Ann: At this point a little on the cranky side.
Ann: I would like to place a complaint
Ann: several
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Carol: Ann, I'm sorry to hear that, since I'm online with you let me help you with any information you need.
Carol: Also I'm sorry for the delay.
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Ann: I was told by one of your people +36204 that you might not be able to assist, but I will run it by you anyway. The angering part is that she didn't follow-up with an email as promised, and then I had to wait 53 minutes and I got the same person, and then she hung-up on me, and now we are here ... the problem OTHERWISE is ...
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Ann: I purchased an Adobe Captivate about one month ago, because it was the best I could do in that I wanted REALLY the Adobe e-learning 6 suite, but I was told by customer service they had no idea when it was coming out. Because there was no time limit ... I took the adobe captivate by itself for about $300 and then the next few days later the new product came out ... I want the new e-learning but I think I should have $300 off because I'm duplicating the Captivate ... AND the woman - she was a call then stated that there was student pricing for e-learning and that it was $599 ... I did a LOT of research and KNEW it wasn't a student price. She asked for proof ... I know have that proof
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Ann: thank you
Carol: Ann, thank you for staying online.
Ann: I waited last time on phone for 53 minutes to be hung-up on ... I can wait a little longer
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Carol: Ann, I request you to check with our customer service team at 1-800-833-6687 from Monday to Friday 5:00 am to 7:00 pm PST.
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Carol: *for the software earlier.
Carol: I can only guide our customer to choose correct product of their needs and guide them through order process by providing a link being from online sales chat support team.
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Ann: How would you like to end this conversation we are having? It is circular and unhelpful ... I've not gone any distance further, but to be more frustrated at you telling me to do what already has proven not to work.
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Carey,
Thank you, I just received your email. Concerning your statements and questions ...
I appreciate your diligence in contacting me and I appreciate that you would like to alleviate my frustration. I am satisfied to hear that somehow my experience might better train the situation for the next time it comes up, and in particular with that particular representative since I had TWO bad interactions with her one worse than the other. I believe Carol tried to do her best, but felt her much too limited in her abilities or authority to be of any service. It was a runaround, and what was more disappointing was that apparently her supervisor had stepped in and had not rectified the problem, or even had the courtesy to talk to me directly. She left both Carol and myself hanging. I've been in these situations before where one has responsibility and no authority. If you had significant resources at Adobe - that might also be looked at. I can let that go though too. In general though, I think a company as major an educational resource could do better.
I talked to whoever left the number +36204 on my phone between 12-1 pm central today 8-27-12. I believe I talked to the second person, Carol, for approximentaly 45 minutes and the conversation was betweeen 1:03 and 1:48 central today 8-27-12. The woman on +36204 did not provide me a name or number, but it had been recorded on my phone. For the second outreach, Carol, obviously, we emailed ourselves a copy of the transcript verbatem and then left it here as directed our complaints should go. In the meantime I tweeted the situation and by chance TJ Holmes from CNN was asking responding to a situation similiar to this one. It was at #trafficlights and also dealt with the issue of posting complaints formally at forums directed by the service provider. I made a realization at that time that no one from Adobe had appeared to contact any customers at the forum, but then here you are. Thank you. BTW - I contributed to the CNN conversation my frustration, but believe I had no impact in the discussion - just the realizatioin that Adobe is not the only one to be trying to handle complaints through specific gestures.
The issue I would rather focus on at this point, is your correct, I did want the e-learning suite provided that I can afford it. I am a student at Jones Internatioal University and my student email is [E-mail address removed by moderator.]. Please continue emailing me at [E-mail address removed by moderator.]. I don't use the student email for any other purposes than things like this. My understanding CONTRARY to the first woman is that you don't offer a student discount which is very unfortunate, because it is obvious those students getting in the teaching field could utilize a reasonably cost(ed) course-building tool. I had gotten the cloud service as well and thought I'd already invested so much more into this than I should on a fixed income from disability. I'm trying to make better use of me by teaching others with my disability. My newly formed business email is here http://newsdidmpd.blogspot.com and my normal blog is at http://annsmultipleworldofpersonality.blogspot.com. I am a self-proclaimed advocate for people with dissociative identity disorders.
I am disabled, but not useless or less intelligent than most. Please do what you can within reasonable.
I do want the Adobe e-learning software, I do have Captivate ... and would rather be using captivate WITHIN the e-learning package. If there was a refund on Captivate that could work into some reasonable cost I would be satisfied.
Thank you for looking at these messages. It does not leave me feeling so helpless or hopeless with this situation.
Our best,
Ann

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Hi,
Thanks for your posting.
This development mode can exclude some errors, such as the file upload complete at the same time... from my experience, this is a good choice to achieve the goal.
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alex

sigh
reading bytes might be slightly faster than reading chars, since you don't have to do the conversion and you don't have to make String objects. Certainly, you don't want to use readLine. If you're using a reader, use read(buf, length, offset)
My suggestion:
Get your inputstream, put a bufferedInputStream over it, and use tje loadAll method from my IOUtils class.
IOUtils is given freely, but please do not change its package or submit this as your own work.
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package tjacobs;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class IOUtils {
     public static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = (int) Math.pow(2, 20); //1 MByte
     public static final int DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME = 30 * 1000; // 30 Seconds
     public static final int NO_TIMEOUT = -1;
     public static final boolean ALWAYS_BACKUP = false;
     public static String loadTextFile(File f) throws IOException {
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
          char data[] = new char[(int)f.length()];
          int got = 0;
          do {
               got += br.read(data, got, data.length - got);
          while (got < data.length);
          return new String(data);
     public static class TIMEOUT implements Runnable {
          private long mWaitTime;
          private boolean mRunning = true;
          private Thread mMyThread;
          public TIMEOUT() {
               this(DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME);
          public TIMEOUT(int timeToWait) {
               mWaitTime = timeToWait;
          public void stop() {
               mRunning = false;
               mMyThread.interrupt();
          public void run () {
               mMyThread = Thread.currentThread();
               while (true) {
                    try {
                         Thread.sleep(mWaitTime);
                    catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                         if (!mRunning) {
                              return;
     public static InfoFetcher loadData(InputStream in) {
          byte buf[] = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE]; // 1 MByte
          return loadData(in, buf);
     public static InfoFetcher loadData(InputStream in, byte buf[]) {
          return loadData(in, buf, DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME);
     public static InfoFetcher loadData(InputStream in, byte buf[], int waitTime) {
          return new InfoFetcher(in, buf, waitTime);
     public static String loadAllString(InputStream in) {
          InfoFetcher fetcher = loadData(in);
          fetcher.run();
          return new String(fetcher.buf, 0, fetcher.got);
     public static byte[] loadAll(InputStream in) {
          InfoFetcher fetcher = loadData(in);
          fetcher.run();
          byte bytes[] = new byte[fetcher.got];
          for (int i = 0; i < fetcher.got; i++) {
               bytes[i] = fetcher.buf;
          return bytes;
     public static class PartialReadException extends RuntimeException {
          public PartialReadException(int got, int total) {
               super("Got " + got + " of " + total + " bytes");
     public static class InfoFetcher implements Runnable {
          public byte[] buf;
          public InputStream in;
          public int waitTime;
          private ArrayList mListeners;
          public int got = 0;
          protected boolean mClearBufferFlag = false;
          public InfoFetcher(InputStream in, byte[] buf, int waitTime) {
               this.buf = buf;
               this.in = in;
               this.waitTime = waitTime;
          public void addInputStreamListener(InputStreamListener fll) {
               if (mListeners == null) {
                    mListeners = new ArrayList(2);
               if (!mListeners.contains(fll)) {
                    mListeners.add(fll);
          public void removeInputStreamListener(InputStreamListener fll) {
               if (mListeners == null) {
                    return;
               mListeners.remove(fll);
          public byte[] readCompletely() {
               run();
               return buf;
          public int got() {
               return got;
          public void run() {
               if (waitTime > 0) {
                    TIMEOUT to = new TIMEOUT(waitTime);
                    Thread t = new Thread(to);
                    t.start();
               int b;
               try {
                    while ((b = in.read()) != -1) {
                         if (got + 1 > buf.length) {
                              buf = expandBuf(buf);
                         buf[got++] = (byte) b;
                         int available = in.available();
                         if (got + available > buf.length) {
                              buf = expandBuf(buf);
                         got += in.read(buf, got, available);
                         signalListeners(false);
                         if (mClearBufferFlag) {
                              mClearBufferFlag = false;
                              got = 0;
               } catch (IOException iox) {
                    throw new PartialReadException(got, buf.length);
               } finally {
                    buf = trimBuf(buf, got);
                    signalListeners(true);
          private void setClearBufferFlag(boolean status) {
               mClearBufferFlag = status;
          public void clearBuffer() {
               setClearBufferFlag(true);
          private void signalListeners(boolean over) {
               if (mListeners != null) {
                    Iterator i = mListeners.iterator();
                    InputStreamEvent ev = new InputStreamEvent(got, buf);
                    //System.out.println("got: " + got + " buf = " + new String(buf, 0, 20));
                    while (i.hasNext()) {
                         InputStreamListener fll = (InputStreamListener) i.next();
                         if (over) {
                              fll.gotAll(ev);
                         } else {
                              fll.gotMore(ev);
     public static interface InputStreamListener {
          public void gotMore(InputStreamEvent ev);
          public void gotAll(InputStreamEvent ev);
     public static class InputStreamEvent {
          public int totalBytesRetrieved;
          public byte buffer[];
          public InputStreamEvent (int bytes, byte buf[]) {
               totalBytesRetrieved = bytes;
               buffer = buf;
          public int getBytesRetrieved() {
               return totalBytesRetrieved;
          public byte[] getBytes() {
               return buffer;
     public static void copyBufs(byte src[], byte target[]) {
          int length = Math.min(src.length, target.length);
          for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
               target[i] = src[i];
     public static byte[] expandBuf(byte array[]) {
          int length = array.length;
          byte newbuf[] = new byte[length *2];
          copyBufs(array, newbuf);
          return newbuf;
     public static byte[] trimBuf(byte[] array, int size) {
          byte[] newbuf = new byte[size];
          for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
               newbuf[i] = array[i];
          return newbuf;

I have a new iPod Touch and PC running Windows 7. I want to upload pictures from my PC to my iPod. The best I can do right now is to create a new subdirectory on my PC and put all the pictures I want in that subdirectory. I want many subdirectories! ??

I have a new iPod Touch. I also run Windows 7 on my desktop PC. I have tried to post pictures from my PC to the iPod. But the only way you can do this that I know of, is to create a subdirectory on the PC and put all of your pictures that you want on the iPod in that subdirectory. Then you must use iTunes to synchronize the PC subdirectory with photos on the iPod. But I want many subdirectories to organize my pictures on the iPod. Can you do this??, it doesn't look to me like you can!??
Thanks Tom

Yes.
tomfromlong beech wrote:
"Remember one one level of subfolders is allowed." Does this mean that you can have as many subfolders as you want, but they can only be one level deep under the main folder?

Is this the best it can do?

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