Looping errors on main dvd menu

I just burned a couple of dvds using i-life6. I wanted to set the dvd to loop at the end. I followed the instructions to open project select advanced and select looping. When I put in in the dvd player and selected "play" from the main menu, it would not start the dvd. I had 4 chapters. I can select chapters 2,3,4 and they will play. However Chapter 1 does the same as the main menu "play movie" button. Nothing. Any help. I'm burning to Verbatim 8x disks. Anybody else out there with this challenge?

foodster,
Did you add a chapter near the beginning in iMovie? If so delete it and then try again in iDVD. iDVD will always add a "beginning" cahpter for you, so you should never put a Chapter Marker within 2secs of the beginning....let iDVD do it for you.
Also try to keep chapters away from transitions (2 secs), and from each other (2 secs).
John B

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is there any way to place a short movie (2-3 minutes) before the main DVD-Menu? With that I mean, when I put the DVD in the player, I would like it to start directly with a little intro - like in some movie, in always start with advertising or similar - and then I would like the main DVD-menu to come.
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Hi,
Thanks for reading this post.
I recently made a DVD for a client, the dvd was 9mins long and contained 6 different titles within the 1 sequence (main video body). The client has come back asking whether or not i can create a DVD with the 6 titles as options on the main DVD menu for their convenience.
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You will need to make those 6 different videos into chapters using iMovie, then create a new iDVD project.
I recently made a DVD for a client. I moderately new to editing/ mac as everything this entails
You don't say what versions of iMovie you have, but some or all of these should be helpful to you:
iMovie 6 (and iLife 6) tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHD_6_GettingStarted.pdf
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http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
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Anyone ever get this message when building a DVD?
http://www.reflexive-cinematics.com/miscimages/errormessage.jpg
I keep getting this damn messages with Every adobe application. I was having tons of issues with encore 1.0 so I upgraded and bought 2.0. Now I'm having that error message.
Does anyone know what the problem is? And by the way, I only get that message on the main menu when it tries to loop. The menu background video is 1:00:00 ( one minute ) and the loop point is 00:07:00 ( seven seconds ) with loop amount set to forever. I've changed it to other stuff to see, but I still get the message.
I am able to burn the disc and everything works, except for the loop point at the main menu. The menu plays till it's duration and then instead of looping it ( in a DVD player ) just stops playback and ( during preview on my computer ) gives that above error message.... ' an abnormal condition has been detected. '
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Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, you have posted to the Tips & Tricks sub-forum, which is a repository for articles on how to do specific things in Premiere. Few general users stop by here, so there will be few, if any, "eyes" on your issue. Maybe our tireless MOD, Steve Grisetti, can move this out to the main forum, where many more users will see your post.
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I'm wanting to make a menu that has a video background and plays music as soon as the DVD starts up, but I want the music to stop after it plays through twice and the video to continue to loop.
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I used the CS2 quick DVD for review projects. But it is easy to accomplish this in CS3 and even easier in CS4 and CS5 (where you have dynamic link to Encore).
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He wants 2 menus (MAIN & SUB MENU) - Main would contain +play all+ or +chapter selection+ buttons. +Play all+ button would start from the beginning and play all the way to the end without stopping. +Chapter Selections+ would take you to a SUB MENU where you could select only certain sections...and here is where it's challenging... _but after that specific selection (or chapter) is finished, that it return to the Sub Menu, rather than continuing on playing the rest of the movie._
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Hi Brittney
I just saw this post and wanted to ask you a question about stories before I set up my project.
I'm a little nervous as my project is 95 mins, has 5 Chapters, and three of these Chapters have Sub Chapters and Sub, Sub Chapters (if that makes sense?). Because the project is so long I need to set up up properly.
I need to be able to either Play All (from start to finish) or go to each Chapter/sub chapter/sub-sub Chapter and come back to the relevant chapter menu each time.
Is stories the way to go with this? I haven't done such a complex project and have always been able to use 2 tracks (a play all and then chapters) .
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Ok, Bare with me I'll try to explain as best as I can.
I want to play the DVD menu to 1 entire song. I changed the menu duration in the preferences to 4min 28 sec... the length of the song. I added my menu video clip from FCP and set it to the same length.
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It's bear with me, not "bare" with me.
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