Making a DVD with no menu

How do I make a dvd that just plays when its put in a dvd player, without a menu?

See these topics for some ways.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6768192&#6768192
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6662103&#6662103
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6410567&#6410567
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Making a self starting DVD with no menu

Is there any way of creating a DVD with NO menu in iDVD? Dragging the video file to the top level drop box in map mode creates a self start but then a menu appears when playing finishes.

Is there any way of creating a DVD with NO menu in
iDVD? Dragging the video file to the top level drop
box in map mode creates a self start but then a menu
appears when playing finishes.
The DVD has to have some place to go when it completes playing your movie. If you don't want to see a menu, loop your movie. You will then need to use your remote to quit the DVD.
Here is slightly different approach that I use: http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/AutostartDVD/autostart.htm
F Shippey

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

How do i create a dvd with no menu in dvd sp?

i want to make dvds of a short film (just over 10mins) and have them autostart when placed in a dvd player or do nothing until somebody presses play and then it just starts. no menus or anything.
how do i do this in dvd studio pro?

To make a DVD with no menu that simply plays the moment you pop the DVD in, use this method:
- in DVD SP select the DVD Project in the "Outline Tab". (located above the menus folder)
- in the "Connections Tab", drag your completed Track onto the "First Play" target (located at the very top)
Notice the Target changes from "Menu 1" to "Track 1" (or the name you have given the track)
This will bypass the menu and go right to your track.
Hope that helps,
Arkadion

How do i burn dvd with no menu - just play?

hello,
I need to burn a dvd with no menu, so that when it plays, it goes straight to movie...
thanks,
steve

Steve - import your asset into DVDSP so that it appears in the assets tab. When imported (and the button shows green), drag the footage into the time line. This sets the footage into 'track 1'.
If you look in the outline view you will see Menu1 and Track 1 listed. menu 1 is the default choice for 'First Play' - if you now click on the disc icon at the top of the outline view then look in the property inspector you will find another way of setting 'First Play' - simply use the option to select the track instead.
If you control+click on the track icon in the outline view (or in the graphical view for DVDSP 3+) you get the option to set First Play there too - simply select the words at the top of the contextual menu.
Check here too:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/first_playwarmouth.html

I need to burn a DVD with a menu and everything but I don't have iDVD. Help please? I bought my iMac in March 2012.

I need to burn a DVD with a menu and everything, but I don't have iDVD. I bought my iMac from an Apple store in March 2012. Help please?

You may be able to find iDVD as part of the iLife 11 Retail Package. It is no longer sold by Apple, but you may find it on eBay or Amazon.
Other options include Toast from Roxio.
See here for more discussion of the options.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3711

Making a dvd with menu (without using DVD Studio Pro)

Hey,
I'd like to make a dvd with menu / titles etc in FCP X, but don't know how (without using DVD Studio Pro - which I no longer have!)
Also, is there a way to burn multiple movies onto one dvd in Compressor?
Cheers,
Sean

SeanNeedsYourHelp wrote:
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3711

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

Burning dvd with no menu

Hello,
I am looking for a way to burn a movie so that the movie automatically plays when ou put it in the dvd player, without a menu screen coming up first. is that possible?

I have burned dvd's from idvd with no menue. What i did was go to the themed screen I chose, whether I want to use it or not in the final burn, and click on the "three boxes" icon (called the" show the DVD map")on the bottom of the menu page. It shows a box with the words "Drag content here to automatically play when disc is inserted.What I do is click and drag the movie to that gray box, and then continue on to burn the dvd to a disk. the dvd will burn and will automatically play when you insert the finished dvd into a dvd player.
aheart4god2

Urgent Please. DVD With No Menu.

hi guys.
a client of mine asks for a DVD with their video on it without ANY menus at all, so that it plays straight away when inserted into a standard DVD player and doesn't show ANY menus.
please tell me how to create a DVD with no menus in iDVD.
this is urgent.
cheers.

How to create a DVD in iDVD without menu (there are several options):
1. Easy: Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously. Disadvantage: The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy: If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well). Disadvantage: The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Roxio Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way": Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary: myDVDedit ( http://www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
hope this helps!

Making a DVD with 3 iMovie projects

I am fairly new at making a DVD. I have iMovie 9.0.4 and am on a Mac OS X version 10.6.8.
My question is: I would like to make a DVD with 3 chapters.
     Chapter #1 would be an iMovie project (13 minutes)
     Chapter #2 would be an iMovie project ( 8 minutes)
     Chapter #3 would be an iMovie project (14 minutes)
I have all three of the movie projects completed.
At this time they are all seperate projects in iMovie.
They are the only projects that I have in imovie.
I hope to combine all three projects on one DVD and provide the DVD to classmates for a 50 year reunion.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Good or bad info. To be honest - I never use the SlideShow way - but it's well described in this forum and I tested it to be sure that it works. Problem I came up on was
• Black framing - One must select to not scale photos in SlideShow
• Bad sound - as I had to high level it resulted in severe distortion - Lowering it helped
So the problems can be handled - but in reality I rather do
• One movie containing all parts and Chapter Marks set to match. This too has a built in problem as one can not set Chapter Marks in transitions or within 2 sec from them (OR IN VERY BEGINNING OF MOVIE). But there is a way around this too.
• Export the combined movie as Full Quality QuickTime .mov
• Import this QT.mov and now You can set the Chapter Marks (except at very beginning = no need to do this - iDVD does this by it self)
And then I add each Chapter as a free movie too
This works greatly - BUT the Con in this case is that it takes x2 space on DVD. For material less than 60 min this is no problem - but for longer movies one has to be even more elaborate to fix it.
Good Luck !
Yours Bengt W

Making a DVD with HD and SD assets

How can I make a SD DVD with HD and SD assets and retain the highest quality on the HD material? I have tried mixing the short vidoes on an SD timeline in Final Cut Pro, then rendering out the HD and export using Best Quality 90 min DVD settings in Compressor. I then import that file into a DVDSP project, and then chapter out that track and make stories to create separate play buttons for each video and a Play All button as well. The quality of the HD material seems worse than that of the SD material. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks. Robin.

Do you know how to best compress HD for optimal play on standard DVD players?
If I am just dealing with HD material, I will send out the timeline as a self-contained .mov in ProRes (I like self-contained, saves some time on re-encoding) then use Compressor to make a SD m2v. You can start with the preset but then go in and change the frame controls to “Better” and also change the encoding rate if there is room to increase the rate.
Calculating rates [information here|http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php]
Can get very good results from HD material delivered as SD format.
When mixing things, it becomes more challenging. Depending on the material (is most of the material HD or SD in original format, can they be edited separately or do they need to go from one to the other to make the movie, etc.) I may try various approaches. If the majority of the footage is HD, I may just go with an HD timeline (though the SD material will not look as good.)
When you say the quality of the HD material is worse, what is worse? Given all things being equal, camera quality (in other words you are not using an extremely high end SD camera and a $300 consumer HD cam, one is really good lighting with little movement, while the other is high speed race cars in streelights at night) the HD footage shouldn't look worse than the SD material...

Burn DVD with no Menu

In Premiere Elements 11, how do I burn a DVD without a menu? I think at one time there was something that I accidently checked that said "don't show this again" that would have allowed me to do this. How do I get that back?

bhess5
See Edit Menu/Preferences/General and the option "Show all do not show again message". Check the check mark status for it, and set accordingly.
Please let us know if that worked for you. If not, we will work on this some more.
Looking forward to your results.
Thank you.
ATR

Scan lines appear when making a dvd with idvd

Edited footage in FCE...exported to quick time, everything looks fantastic...made a dvd with idvd, and final product shows scan lines, or jagged lines...does anyone know what caused this?

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

Making DVD with no menu - immediately plays?

Is there a way to make a DVD so that it plays when you insert the DVD into the player? I usually make a DVD menu, but I have something that won't need a menu and will play on a loop. Any tips?

Hi
* Authoring a DVD that plays automatically without a menu *.
To loop set the track End Jump to itself.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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