Length of Timeline inaccurate... causing iDVD problems..
Hey there
I've got a timeline with 53 minutes of video but iMovie says its length is over 90 minutes. It's registering the last 40 minutes as black. There are no clips beyond that first 53 minutes... if I try to burn in iDVD, it burns a 90 minute movie with 40 minutes of black. Anybody have any suggestions on how to resolve this?
Thanks!
Coincidentally, I had the same problem today after reading your note. It's a problem I've seen a few times in the past too, where I have confirmed there is no hanging audio clip at the end of the project, yet the project keeps playing,
On today's project, and the others too if I recall, the project ends with an audio clip that extends a few seconds past the last video clip. A much-longer audio clip was split there, and the trailing (split) clip discarded. Yet the project thinks the project shouldn't end until the end of the discarded clip.
Exporting to an H.264 movie exported with the "wrong" (too-long) length. However, exporting to a Full Quality movie exported with the correct length.
So a workaround may be to export to a Full Quality DV movie, then drag that movie into the iDVD project. That won't deliver chapters, however. If you need chapters, re-import the Full Quality movie to another project, add the chapters there, and send it off to iDVD.
Karl
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1012704 Dynamic Calc processor cannot lock more than number ESM blocks during the calculation, please increase CalcLockBlock setting and then retry (a small data cache setting could also cause this problem, please check the data cache size setting).
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