Looping a movie in an iDVD burned disc

Is there a way to have a movie continuously loop on a DVD disc doing it from iDVD. I want the movie to simply start playing when put into a DVD player and continue to repeat. I don't need any themes or anything like that.
Thanks,
Ray

Drag the movie into the upper-left Autoplay box in the Map view. Click the box. Then go in to Advanced and select Loop Movie.

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First time posting, so please excuse any naivete
Hi there, I'm having the opposite problem of many of the questions I've read on here- the audio on my burned disc won't play on my computer but is fine on my TV. I am running the latest version of idvd on a 2008 macbook. The music for the menu is a .m4a file (?) imported from itunes and the movie is an imported project from imovie. Both play fine in idvd preview and I have burned discs of this project before with no problems. This time I burned one disc through idvd, discovered the missing audio, deleted the encoded assets and re- encoded before saving the disk image and burning another dvd through disk utility. Both dvds are having this problem . I checked sound on my system preferences, it's on- though I can't find the "main audio" that was mentioned in another thread. Maybe I don't have enough space on my startup disk? I've been trashing some things to free up space, but I'm not sure where to check to see how much space I have.
I'm sending these dvds out as part of job applications so they need to be able to play right on whatever the reviewer uses (mac, pc, tv etc.)- is there a way to ensure it will work universally?
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All my movies are in 4:3 scale. I need to finalize a dvd, and when the movie enters in iDVD, burns in 16:9 format. What must I do?

I need a help from you. All my movies are in 4:3 scale.
I use always the same Easy SepUp in Final Cut. My movies is compressed as DV NTSC in 4:3 format.
I need to finalize a dvd, and when the movie enters in iDVD, the preview appears already written in green "widescreen preview", and so the finallized dvd goes to 16:9 format.
I checked in Idvd, and the size is choosed to 4:3.
Interestingly, I've used iDVD several times, including by using templatesmade to 16:9, and changing the format to 4:3 it always worked well.
Maybe is an Idvd update that causes it?

Sorry,I know this is a month late, but I think I remember this happening to myself some time ago. As I can best recall, I believe I had used an MP3 music file in my project (exported from FCP 7) and that was the cause in some strange way. I remember deleting a file (again, I believe the mp3 file) and then it worked fine as 4:3.Not positive, but I hope this helps.

IDVD Burns disc but nothing on screen!

I've just burnt a DVD on iDVD from an iMovie project, about 2min 30sec, it went through the whole process and ejected the disc towards the end of the 'clean up' part. Strangely, after ejecting the DVD I had to force quit iDVD as it didn't stop working.
I can see the disc has been burnt but when I try and play the disc, I get a black screen. I've tried it on my Mac and on a DVD player, the DVD player doesn't display the menu, nor does the Mac, just black.
I've used this process before some time ago and it worked fine.
What's the problem??

• What material (Codec) was used in iDVD Don't know where to find this info
Open video sequens with QuickTime-Player then open Inspector [cmd+I] and read
Video formatted/Codec: nnnnnnnnn
what does it say ?
• How - step by step - did You do it with iDVD I made the movie in IMovie HD (1080i 25) then selected 'Share' and selected iDVD which launched iDVD
I do in iMovie'08 to 11 - Share to Media Browser - and as LARGE (Not HD or other resolution) - as this gives a much better result than "Share to iDVD" (all versions of iMovie)
Theme used 'Portfolio Colour' - Should work
Encoding method selected None, default -
I always use - Pro Quality for material > 45 minutes and Best Performances if movie and menu adds up to less.
frame rate (PAL or NTSC) PAL 25 fps - OK
other material used
• Brand of DVD used Verbatim - me too
• Type of DVD used DVD +R - I use DVD-R as they also play on older DVD-players
• Burn Speed - set down or not Whatever the Default is - I set it down to x2 or x4 - as this gives a better result (plays on more players as PCs etc)
And a VERY GOOD suggestion (given by many here) - is to use "Save as a DiskImage" and test this with DVD-tool prior to actual burn to DVD. As this can isolate where the problem occurs.
Yours Bengt W

IDVD burns disc, but blurry motion

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I have an 80-minute final cut pro movie that has chapter markers. I exported it as a self-contained quicktime movie (125GB) and imported it into iDVD. Since it was so large I burned it on a DVD+R Dual Layer and encoded it as "Best Performance".
Everything looked great in preview mode, but the final burned DVD has really bad digitizing/blurring whenever there is any motion on screen or camera movement.
I really could use any help!!!
Thank you in advance!
-Laura

There is no sure fire way to get rid of motion blur completely when shooting under 30 frames per second / 29.97. But you can reduce its effects by following seven simple rules:
1. Use high quality encoding (depending on run time). This doesn't mean setting it at best quality but rather at Best Performance or Pro settings when appropriate and called for.
2. Keep video playback under 60 mins. whenever possible. ( And remember that slideshows, added audio, motion menus, etc. use up space on the media itself and hence reduce available playback at its highest quality).
3. Use video footage with little or no camera movement in terms of panning or fast moving objects.
4. Make a disc image to the desktop and test the image with apple's dvd player app prior to burning the movie to DVD-R.
5. Lower the burn speed to 4x or lower.
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When I burn a dvd using Idvd they will not play on standard dvd players.
Is this a problem with anyone else?
I noticed it was a problem in the early 2000-2003 but apparently something got fixed, because I couldn't find an incident where this problem continued to occur.
I am new to the Mac world and I don't always understand the acronymns used when I read responses. However, here is my problem.
Burning dvd's using Idvd:
1. the burn seems to run and function normally
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I really need help to fix the problem with the IDVD software or to know that I need to purchase another DVD maker software for my Mac. The product below says my Mac is running OS X v 10.7.2 but it isn't it is running v 10.6.8 as I stated.
URGENT!!!!

My macmini is under 2 years old. I reviewed your list of affects and I am going down the list to determine possible cause and effect.
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I will continue down the list using different type of blank dvd's etc.
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I open the movie using QT and change the video track properties as detailed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179
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SD DVD Menus, Tracks, and Slideshows
• Display Mode: Choose the default aspect ratio to use when creating menus, tracks,
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Letterbox, and 16:9 Pan-Scan & Letterbox.
16:9 Pan Scan & Letterbox: You can have up to 12 buttons.
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- using iDVD & iMovie 6
- had to go to double layer setting because we had too much for single layer (total ~68 min)
- initially used widescreen setting for entire project in iDVD
Here's what happened and the results:
1. Finished setting up project in iDVD & burned disc. This disc worked perfectly on my computer, but when put on TV, the DVD title and the titles for the individual movies were off the screen because of the widescreen setting on a standard screen TV. All audio was intact.
2. Reformatted iDVD project for standard screen setting and burned another DVD. This disc still had titles that were slightly off the screen on the right, but more readable, but completely lost audio on two of the movies.
3. Reformatted iDVD project for widescreen setting, moved all titles more center so they would still show regardless of standard TV display, and burned another DVD. This disc had a perfect main menu, but we completely lost audio on half of the movies.
Ahhhhh! What am I doing wrong?
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Please help if possible.
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Hi
Two sources:
• iDVD and Your Mac
• Filetypes - I never use any other audio as .aiff 48Hz 16-bit
To first one:
Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
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Skipped audio files when burning disc in iDVD.

I burned a DVD using iDVD version 7.0. The audio files sound perfect on the computer but on the disc there are skipped areas noted in three different audio files. I did try different discs and burned discs on both my laptop and my desktop. I have used this program before but never encountered this problem. Any tips? Thanks

Hi
My notes on this.
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

IDVD 7.0.2 - motion menus too large, cannot burn disc

Hi there,
Can someone help me out with this. I'm burning a dvd I made for christmas presents, and I need to figure this out before the weekend when I need to hand out the gifts ahh!
I finished the dvd, tried to burn it and get the error that reads basically, "motion menus are too large, adjust and try burning again". All menus have photos only - there are no videos in my menus, this is why I'm confused. Could this mean the songs are too big? - I've already reduced the songs to be 2 min for each menu. I really don't want to create the entire thing again, as I'm really close to deadline and the project is completed. Any ideas?
Could it be these: too many buttons in one menu?, videos in each menu are too large? one slideshow I have is 32 min. long, and has 5 songs spliced together for a 32 min. song.?
FYI it is a widescreen project, but may have been started as standard, i can't remember.
Please help!
thanks.

Hi
a. try to do a DiskImage and see if it works OK
b. You could try to see what happens if You turn off animation/motion menu
Else it can be a problem needing to be trouble shooted and cured. See list.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Last resort: from Craig: Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
Yours Bengt W

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Hi all,
First of all I'm new to this so if I've missed out any info please let me know. I've always downloaded a lot of films and in the past, have had no problem burning them to discs since I got my mac in 2006. I used to burn them using the "Create New Project" and add in movie, sort menu's etc, but after a while I realised there's no point in all that cause it takes longer and all I really want is the movie on a disc anyway. So I started using the "One Step DVD from Movie" and I would make the discs that way, which I never had any problems with either. I hadn't made any DVDs for a while, possibly 3 or 4 months and when I tried the other day it seems to go through the movie ok, converting the video and audio and then goes to burn the disc, which is where I have the problem. It normally goes to writing video out and things like that but the last couple of times I have tried to burn discs it goes to that as usual then spits out the DVD before going through the entire process. I then have to cancel the process and the DVD I was trying to burn is no longer usable because it seems to have written parts of the movie to it, but not the full movie so it's not possible to watch on a DVD player or even in the mac DVD player. It's very strange, I don't get any error message or anything coming up, it just spits out the DVD and then iDVD freezes and I have to force quit out of it. I'm wondering if it's maybe the version of iDVD that's the problem. Obviously as I've not used the iDVD for a while it will have been automatically updated via the Software Update which I run at least once a week. I'm unsure of the version the last time I used it to make a DVD but the version I have now seems to be the latest one for my system (version 6.0.4). After a few unsuccessful tries at making the DVDs using the One Step DVD, I tried to do it by creating a project first, but it seems to do the exact same thing, go through the whole process (which takes about 2 hours, sometimes longer) and then burn only part of it then I can't use the disc again. Please help, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Debz

Thanks for quick reply and I'm sorry about the long message, I was just trying to explain everything that had happened. Not touched the media at all since I got it, I didn't change any settings or make anything different from when I used to burn discs before. I have about 10GB free on my mac at this moment, but at the time I had about 30GB free, maybe just under. I have been reading other posts on here about discs not burning properly and a couple of the things that have been said is to not have any other applications open, which I didn't and have more than 15GB space free, which I always have had when burning discs.

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