Making a DVD in IDVD

Ok I have tried to make a DVD with IDVD about 14 different setting and they all have something wrong with the DVD. The fonts look like someone had eaten about the edges, or the whites have little spike lines in them. the wipes would look like I didn't have a background color or black spike lines. Sometimes the motion in the video would have a blur when people would walk or drive.
Now before you say I did something wrong! I took the one of the same bad compression and put in DVD pro and it looks great. I just like the some of the themes in iDVD. Is iDVD just that bad of a burning program.
zoman

Navcat48 wrote:
I thought that I needed to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD.
Are you saying that if I have a project with HD video, I do not need to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD?
Tom Wolsky said you don't need to use DV and (of course) he's right.
In my original reply I said use DV since that's what you shot.
If you had shot some HD format and had "optimized" the clips to Pro Res, iDVD would be happy with that too. And so forth.
I also said I didn't know the answer to your chapter marker question (which I do understand). And I can't test until later.
Russ

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Scan lines appear when making a dvd with idvd

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I'm seeing the same thing in some photos but not all and not in video clips...

Making a DVD in IDVD with a project from FCPx

   I've tried a number of things but have not been successful.
   The first time I hit the "Share" button, I selected the "Export File" option. At the next dialog box just took all the default settings. The result was a very large SD file that didn't look too good in IDVD. It wasn't as sharp as it should be and appeared to be "jittering" during fast movements. I've tried different settings in the dialog box, "Settings" page, but with no success. The options are not explained in the on-line manual, or I haven't been able to find the explanation. I've tried setting the "Format" option to computer, "Codex" to H.264 Better Quality, Resolution to 640x480, but the background task that the computer performs doesn't seem to get above 9% (I let it render all night). I have about 96g on the hard drive. The flie size is only 1.8g. I've also tried re-booting the computer and FCPx.
   Does anyone have suggestions? Is there a place where I can get an explanation of all of the option in the "Sharing/Settings" dialog box (Codex, Format, etc)?

Navcat48 wrote:
I thought that I needed to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD.
Are you saying that if I have a project with HD video, I do not need to use the DV codec in order to be compatable with IDVD?
Tom Wolsky said you don't need to use DV and (of course) he's right.
In my original reply I said use DV since that's what you shot.
If you had shot some HD format and had "optimized" the clips to Pro Res, iDVD would be happy with that too. And so forth.
I also said I didn't know the answer to your chapter marker question (which I do understand). And I can't test until later.
Russ

Making a DVD with chapters

I'm making a DVD on iDVD with chapters but it won't play all the way through unless it comes back to the menu. I could do it on DVD Pro but it doesn't have the theme I am using on iDVD and it won't let me import it either. iDVD let me make scenes or chapters but not where it supposed to be. How can I change that?
Thoughts anyone?
Sheyla

Hi Sheyla
This can be more than one problem. As I get it You are using FinalCut Pro and iDVD.
Then
• How do You go from FCP to iDVD - all steps described ?
• Are You aware of the iDVD BUG ?
I have a general note on this and more - Please read.
FCE/P to iDVD
Several things that I keep in mind
• How to go from FCE/P to iDVD
• Free space on Start-up hard disk
• Encoding
• Brand and type of DVDs used
• Burn speed set
• iDVD BUG
• Chapters
How to go from FCE/P to iDVD I do
• Disable Screen and Energy saver
• IMPORTANT --> FIRST in FinalCut - Mix Down Audio under Sequence Menu / Render Only / Mixdown
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Select with Mark - Chapter Mark
• Not as Self-Contained (not important but saves time and space)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (IMPORTANT)
This QT.mov file I import into iDVD from within iDVD.
Free space on Start-up hard disk
I set a minimum of 25GB (for Mac OS and iDVDs temp files)
Encoding
• I use Pro Quality encoding
Brand and type of DVDs used
• I use Verbatim
• I use DVD-R
Burn speed set
• I set down this to x4 (or x1)
iDVD BUG
• One can not go back to movie-project for any alterations and then go back to
the iDVD project. It will notice and ask You to either Up-date or Cancel. Neither
of them will work.
Medicine - Start a brand new iDVD project.
Use of Chapters
• I only use a to z and 0 to 9 in naming them. NO other symbol/letter !
• NO Chapter-mark at very beginning - iDVD NEEDS TO set this by it self
• No Chapter marks in or within two seconds from a transition
(Way around this last one - Export movie as QT full quality and NO Chapter marks
Import this into a new Movie-project and now You are free to set C-Ms where You want
them except at very beginning - still)
Material used to build movie
• video - I use streamingDV (or convert all other to this eg .mp4, .avi, .wmv etc)
• audio - I use .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or from Audio-CD (44.1kHz) - no .mp3 or direct from iTunes
• photos - I use .jpg - no .bmp etc
Trash iDVD pref file and run Repair Permissions - and have a re-try.
from post ??
May not be relevant, but I had the same problem with iDVD, where burned DVDs showed a green screen. It was cured by quitting Quicksilver and Quickeys as well as disabling sleep and screensaving
Yours Bengt W

Making more complex dvds in iDVD

I have a lot of short animations that I want to use to create a dvd for the students who made them.
They are on different topics (some are stop motion projects, some are Flash animations, some are Monty Python-style animations, etc.) so I want to create a dvd where the main menu screen has 4 or five main headers (chapters? directories?) and each one of those can then be clicked on to reveal another page with a menu list of individual animation projects, and then each animation could be clicked on and played as desired.
Is this possible to do with iDVD? If so, can anyone please advise me on how to do it or where to search for instructions on making a dvd with such a structure?
Thanks a lot for any advice.

Something is very wrong with your iDVD! Your experience is certainly not the norm!
I cannot speak to how iDVD works with Snow Leopard, but since iDVD has not been updated since the 08 version, I doubt that Apple focused on making sure it would be ok in SL.
The difficulties you describe with adding audio clips and changing fonts should not be happening if iDVD is working properly. If you are using audio that is not AIFF, you might try changing to that, but you still have the problem with the fonts.
The themes are set and you cannot change the way they work. Themes that have submenus within them are designed to give consistency to your DVD's look. You cannot have a main theme and then select submenu themes that are different.
If you use themes from earlier versions of iDVD-- that have just the one main screen design, you may be able to select another different theme that does have submenu options for your submenus.
If you are going to go ahead and try again to get iDVD to work for you in 10.5.8, you might consider creating a new iDVD project. I recommend that you delete iDVD's preference file before opening iDVD: Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag the plist file to the trash. iDVD will open a new one when you reopen it.
I would also do Repair Permissions on your computer's drive, using Disk Utility.
If you are satisfied with the iDVD project itself, either your original one or a new one, I recommend that you create a disk image file of it before burning to DVD disk. Creating one looks like the burn process and the encoding takes just as long, but the end result is a disk image file, not a burned DVD disk.
You now have a self-contained file of your iDVD project. You can safely move, change, rename, or delete any/all of the media used in the projects without losing the ability to burn DVDs of this iDVD project in the future. A disk image file can be moved to an external drive or another computer. It is a backup for DVDs, and it saves drive space (if you delete the original media).
Once the disk image file is successfully created, you can use it to test out how your project will play. By clicking on the file to mount it, and then opening the application DVD Player, you can see if it plays correctly. This is not the same as iDVD's Preview function, which will not always show you if there are problems.
If the disk image file plays fine, then use it to burn your DVD disks via Disk Utility.
These disks should play on most set-top players, as well as on most computers.
The brands of DVD disks usually recommended here are DVD-R Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. I think Sonys are ok, too. I have used them without problems. Burning at 4x or less is the recommended slow speed, but burning at 1x or 2x might be better for you.
Yes, DVDSP has a steep learning curve, but in the end, it might give you the options you want to do, if you are willing to spend the time and effort to learn how to do all of it.

IDVD Crashes after making a DVD

I've never had this happen before until today.
I create a movie in iMovie (only about 10 minutes long) and burn a DVD in iDVD.
Everything goes okay and it spits out the first DVD no problem. Sometimes it even spits out a second one just fine. But always either on the second or third copy it ejects the DVD after only about 2 minutes and the entire machine locks up.
I can move the mouse around, but I get the spinning circle that will not stop.
It is iLife4.
Any ideas?

Hi bbates,
I really have no idea why iDVD is crashing and the only thing I can recommend is to run a cache cleaner like Onyx. This usually sorts out burn errors.
If you save the iDVD project as a disc image (as recommended) and burn this via Toast or a burn folder you will not have this problem.
You should also post this question in the iDVD forum stating the version you are using if you want a more direct answer. This is the iMovie forum.

I'm making a DVD with my iMOVIE and when I tried to burn a DVD I got an error message that said "ERROR IN PROJECT

I'm making a DVD with my iMOVIE and when I tried to burn a DVD I got an error message that said
"ERRORS IN PROJECT
There were errors during the project validation that have to be fixed before burning the project."
What does this mean and how do I fix it.
jim

Hi
Do You have a NEW Mac ?
Does it really have iDVD ? New ones Don't.
Please tell much more
• Mac used
• Program used (versions)
• Material used (Codecs, file formats etc)
Yours Bengt W

AVI to DVD using iDVD cuts off sides of the movie

I have various avi movies and while trying to burn them to DVD using iDVD I have been experiencing the following problem: The left, right, top and bottom of the movie are cut off (imagine putting two layers of duct tape on you screen making your screen smaller and then watching a movie on it).
I have a widescreen TV and have tried both the widescreen and standard format with little success. The only difference in on the standard version I can see the entire menu (in the wide screen version, oddly enough, the screen is cut off).
Is there something on iDVD I can do to adjust the ratio to shrink the movie to fit the screen, or do I have to format the movie somehow before bringing it into iDVD.
I appreciate any advice or help anyone can offer.

The problem with that is the green screen I get if I add it to the slide show.
That's the first time I've heard of that. Thanks for the feedback. There's are two possible workarounds if you want to try them:
1 - open the movie in Quicktime Player and export as full quality DV and use that in the slideshow.
2 - if you've installed Perian on your Mac uninstall it, save the iDVD project as a disk image and see if the green is still there or not.
There's a third way, with Quicktime Pro and an Applescript, to mask the movie so that it will be in the TV Safe area. If you find you want to try post back.
OT

Making a DVD from Keynote

This should be a simple process, but I can't find out how to do it. (I get it to work after hours of trial and error, usually, but this time I'm stuck)
I make a Keynote show - beautiful photos, text, etc - but without the music since I've been told the best way to add the sound is to make a movie first and THEN use that to make the DVD.
I exported the Keynote presentation to Quicktime (iMovie wouldn't take the actual Keytime presentation), and then moved that to iMovie. But it won't let me move the clip below to actually make a movie and add sound.
And I tried moving the Quicktime presentation (of course no sound in this version, but the original has sound) directly to iDVD. It appears on the Media/Movie page but I can't figure where to go from there. Nothing happens.
Sigh. Any help would be appreciate.

This actually is an addendum to my own email since somehow half the message got dropped. Sorry.
Basically I've created a Keynote presentation (lovely photos, text, etc) with the intent of making a DVD to share with my mother who is bedridden.
(In the "olden days" I would just make a slide show in iPhoto, add sound, and burn. But I love whaat Keynote can do, it's just figuring out how to get THAT presentation to a DVD I can play in a regular DVD player.
I didn't include sound on the version I exported to Quicktime since I was told that the best way to make the DVD was to make a Movie first so I could better adjust the sound. So I exported the soundless one to Quicktime and then moved that to iMovie, but couldn't get it to let me move the clip below.
I also tried moving the Quicktime version directly to iDVD. It is there on the Media/Movie page, but I can't get anything to happen after that. (I could easily use the version of my Keynote presentation with sound, if it would let me,, but I understand there is a problem with that too....)
Again, any suggestions would be helpful.

Slide Show from Fotomagico to .mov to DVD using iDVD 08

I used to make slide shows using analogue equipment (multiple slide projectors and electronic controlled slide changes involving fading and timing). These slideshows were projected onto a large screen (2m * 2m). With the introduction of large high definition TV screens and advanced display options it is natural to aim for this media. I use Fotomagico to develop slideshows and aim for quality high definition and smooth transitions (pan, zoom, fade). As long as I use the Fotomagico for screening transitions are smooth but once I take the show thru the conversion process (part of Fotomagico) to make .mov files for QuickTime or that matter for iDVD, pan/zooms may or may not come out jerky on the screen be that on the computer screen or the TV. However this never happens when using "Front Row". Is it possible that Quicktime and iDVD (08) do not make proper use of hardware resources available? Is there any software that would not cost me an arm and a leg that would overcome this problem? My system is a Mac Pro Q-Core 2.8 GHz and 6 GB of RAM and I have 200 GB HDrive available. One of the offending pictures has 344 KB with an aspect ratio of 3.6 taking 12 seconds for the pan (screening the picture from let to right in slow motion) and increasing the screening of one image to 20 second may reduce the jerky motion slightly. Fotomagico staff is aware of that problem that will not occur as long as the show is screened using Fotomagico - of course the whole exercise is to bring a show to anyone using DVD players and TV screens. I am highly suspicious of QuickTime and iDVD since shows play ok using "Front Row". Any suggestions or questions?

What am I missing? How come DVD recorders can record and play back good to very good resolution and motion in HD coming from TV broadcasts or for that matter coming from professionally made DVDs?
Maybe I left something unexplained in my post: Slideshows developed with Fotomagico and transferred to .MOV format and then recorded on DVD (using iDVD) in 1920*1080 are coming out quite good on my large screen TV (LG DLP 52" 1280*720p) and the same is true playing the .MOV file on the Mac or a PC. I do not use a projector for play back.
It is only when it comes to PAN/ZOOM motions that the display can become jerky. During the translation from Fotomagico to .MOV format I am using the best resolution and compression available to me. I am aware that during the translation (authoring?) massive amounts of data have to be processed to generate the illusion of a slowly moving picture passing across the TV (monitor) screen especially so considering the wide screen (16:9) format.
I am new to making movies for DVDs and I like to learn and why not from the best; any help with my problem is much welcomed and I apologise if I don't use the proper terms or if I bark up the wrong tree.

Making a DVD without menus

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to DVD Studio Pro. I'm wondering if there is a way to make the equivalent of an Autostart movie in iDVD. No menu, no buttons – just put the DVD in the player and it starts.
Thanks for any advice,
Andrew

Thanks for that David,
I was trying what you suggest but in the process have hit another problem that is preventing me from making the DVD at all. The audio is not linked with the video. I have a 2-minute movie that I made in Final Cut Pro. The movie plays fine in FCP. To export from FCP, I made a Reference movie via:
File > Export > QuickTime Movie...
Settings: Current Settings
Include: Audio & Video
Markers: None (there aren't any in my movie)
In DVD Studio Pro, I clicked on the Import button and selected the .mov file.
Two items appear in the Name column: 2min.mov (Video) and 2min.mov (Audio)
I just don't get it. I've watched Larry Jordan's tutorial video on Lynda.com and am following the instructions to the letter. Do you know where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Andrew

Professional DVD in iDVD? Or Atleast Decent Quality...

Okay, I'm thinking of making a DVD and cramming a bunch of stuff on it. I will have a movie shot on a DSLR that will be about an hour and forty-five minutes. I want to save it out as an MP4/M4V which will probably be about 4gb. Then I want to ADD DVD Extras including an MP4 of another movie I did (but this will be saved as a file if possible) but it's and SD film and comes in at about 1gb. The rest is a trailer and a featurette. Can anyone tell me what will the quality be like for set-top players as well as people playing these disc on PCs. I do have DVD Studio Pro 4 also, but I love iDVD's pass through and Stretch backgrounds.
I also thought about doing a Blu-Ray, but Apple's Blu-Ray function, even out of FCPX is atrocious as far as menus go and I hear Toast 11, even Pro, is buggy and not very good with menus either. Is there any reason people won't create a Blu-Ray burning program for Apple. Even if it just burns a blu-ray image to a DVD5 and/or 9. I hear the quality on that is pretty decent. Any word on a DVD Studio Pro 5?
And I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.5, Core2 Duo with 4gb of RAM. And a G5 1.8 with only 2gb of RAM. Any ideas? I've managed to get great quality from iDVD, but I've always burned basic .Mov files and not MP4 files.
-Nate

Hi - my notes on this
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

Convert trp to mpeg or anything to make dvd in idvd

I dont know anything about burning dvd's. I have a home made movie. dont know who made it. but its in a trp file? how do i convert it to make a dvd in idvd. i have no idea what to do with it. i only got this mac computer about 9 months ago and i made a few dvd's but they where in mpeg format already. i dont even know what trp is. any help? im trying to help out a student in making this dvd. thanks in advance......

regarding to my database a .trp file is an HDTV video file from some Korean videocard for PCs..
sounds to me a il' too exotic for Mac usage..
ANY import for iDVD should be 'dv-stream'/NTSC/PAL .. or AIC... but any HiDef gets automatically converted to SD resolution, since iDVD creates SD-dvd only ...
the makers of VisualHub, the swiss-army knife on Macs for video conversions, have an excellent support and buys board, probably, your request there is a better place:
http://www.isquint.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi

Making a disc with iDVD on my Mac won't play on any other player why?

Making a disc with iDVD on my Mac won't play on any other player why?

How about some details on how you made the disc. What sort of media did the project contain? What brand and type of media did you use? What burn speed did you use?
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
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.
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Making a DVD from iMovoeHD

I have created an audio and visual movie on iMovie HD. The file size is 1.9 Gb as i want to play it at full resolution on wide screen or HD TV.When i convert it to a DVD on iDVD 6 it compresses the movie to just under 400 mb. I have tried different conversion rates but istill do not get the origonal file size.Any tips out there.Ty joe

You got about what I would expect to see going to MPG-2 in iDVD.
My 'math':
Your orginal DV stream video runs about 13 GB per hour. Your 1.9 GB = about 8.6 minutes running time.
In the 'Best Performance' mode about 60 minutes of MPG-2 content fits on slightly less than 4 GB. Your 8.6 minutes should be slightly less than 500 MB.
That's pretty close to what you observed.
Like I said "You got about what I would expect".
BTW, if you content was compressed LESS (making a bigger file) your DVD player couldn't handle the playback data rate.

Making a DVD in IDVD

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