Making a slideshow on a DVD not using IDVD?

How can I make a DVD slide show without using IDVD? I dont like it as I cant get a full

You don't.
Use iDVD.
Purchase iLife 11 (or iLife 09) (includes iDVD) on disk.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.
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Where do you save a movie project for burning DVD's using iDVD?

I recommend that you use SHARE/TO MEDIA BROWSER in Large size. Then in iDVD, you open the Media Browser and navigate to your project. You can drag it into your iDVD project from there.
You can also use SHARE/EXPORT MOVIE and save to the location of your choice. You can then drag and drop into iDVD.

I have created a slideshow in iPhoto and then used iDVD to burn the sideshow to a DVD. The quality of the DVD is poor. Any ideas?

I have created a slideshow in iPhoto and then burnt it to DVD using iDVD. The quality of the slideshow on the DVD is poor. Any ideas?

Poor in what way? iDVD creates standard definition displays of 640 x 480 pixels and will not look as sharp as the orignal photos in the iPhoto slideshow on a Mac monitor.
OT

Accessing a slideshow from a DVD for use in my DVD

Hello all...
I am putting together a wedding video. I have a slideshow that was made by the brides' cousin and shown at the reception on a DVD. I want to use this slideshow in my DVD project.
The disk has Video_TS files. I also created a .dmg file from this disk.
How do I convert this into a format that I can use in my project?
Thanks for any help.

It sounds like you are talking about a DVD slideshow that is on a DVD-video disc. If that is true then your best bet would be to talk to the person who created the disc and see if you can get the original files from them.
Otherwise you could use MPEG Streamclip to extract the individual images that were used to create the slideshow. But you will loose all the associated programming (timing and order of the slides). Trying to re-create the slideshow will probably take you days of work, so you really should talk to person you created the original disc.

Encoding process isn't working properly while making the disk image (or DVD)in my iDVD program. Is there a remedy for this?

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Hello Alarkin,
is there a free alternative to toast?
Yes, it's Disk Utility - just follow this procedure:
1. create the disk image in iDVD
2. double-click the resulting .img file to "mount" it. Next launch DVD Player to view your DVD .... if everything is fine, close DVD Player and eject the virtual disk.
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Issues with DVD quality using iDVD

Dear All,
I badly need advice on a very frustrating problem: I'm having major issues with the quality of the DVDs burnt on my iMac when using iDVD.
Here below are the steps that I follow
I upload the HDV 1080i 60 footage to FCE 4 using the apple Intermediate codec.
Once the editing is done, I export to QT (self-contained)
I use the QT in iDVD and then burn it
The result is sub-par compare to any street DVDs, the motion is sometimes slightly jerky.
What do I do wrong? Coming from HDV footage, I would expect a cisp and clear result in standard definition DVD.
I am wondering if this has to do with the capability of my equipment or a poor use of both softwares.
Thank you in advance for the advices
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After rendered everything did the video resolution and quality look good in FCE when you set your canvas view size to 100%?
If the answer to the first question is yes, then the export settings are the problem. Please list all the settings used for your QT export.

I have two questions. How do I burn a DVD from a slideshow created in IPhoto without using IDVD which is no longer available?!! And is there any way to control the automatic zooming in my slideshow?

I know IMac messed up by no longer offering IDVD OR ILIFE on their new computers. Yes I too am mad I spent the money. But does anyone have a solution on how to work with the limited programs I did get? Or what programs do you suggest I purchase to be able to do something as simple as burn a slidewshow on a DVD!!!! I already purchases Xilisoft DVD which does not allow for photos only videos. I want to use both! I have had my new mac less than a year. Can I still return it?

If you contact Apple at
U.S. iPod, Mac and iPad technical support:
(800) APL-CARE (800-275-2273)
You should be able to get a copy of the original DVDs for a nominal charge.

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Aspect ration (16/9) is perfect but the light pulses every half second or so. The same burned DVD plays perfectly on a separate DVD player (with the correct mode setting). Why can't my comuter play this burned DVD?
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....or is there a better application to produce decent DVD of photo slideshows?
Yes. It's called DVDSP (apple's top of the line DVD Authoring application). It has a much longer learning curve than iDvd and is more $$$ but it does work well. The Help Menu alone is over 640 pages long. However, is this app significantly better than iDvd solely in terms of visual quality?.... No.
But it does offer many more tools to address visual artifacts on the finished DVD, more audio control, much better control of durations per slide, audio, buttons that work as expected, among other things. (for additional examples of this see chapter 12 of the DVDSP Help Menu / starting on p. 373).
Short of DVDSP, and much less money, you can also try these 2 third party apps which come highly recommended on this iDvd Forum:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
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Sorry, but iDVD is the absolutely best software to assemble and finalize your DVD with its customizable menu and themes options. It is not entry level by any means. I've been using it for years and have produced top quality HD movies and have never had a problem with its output.
@ Goatboy:
Having said the above - which app did you use to assemble your slideshow? And what format and size were the individual pictures? From which camera model? iDVD is not the best to put a slideshow together; I use Photo to Movie as they do a much better job. However, no app can improve on the quality of your pictures; for instance, if you enlarged the original size, that can result in a degradation of quality.
As for the memory: what model/year Mac and how much RAM do you have? Also, how much free hard drive space do you have?

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Is it possible, after finalizing an iMovie project, to burn it directly from iMovie 11 to a DVD without first exporting it to iDVD?
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Looking for answers quickly, as we just finished the project and my daughter want my daughter, who is leaving tomorrow a.m. to return home, to take it with her. Thanks for any help.

If your movie is less than about 13 minutes, and you want super quality, forget iDVD. I found a way to create a super high-quality .mov file that fits on a DVD and you can burn it yourself, and anyone can play it. If you're willing to live with a slightly degraded version, you can put a 106-minute video on a DVD, and it'll look just fine to a group sitting in a room.
Having slogged my way through iMovie’s “Help,” online Apple Help and numerous blogs like this one with solutions that were frustratingly varied, hard to follow and even outright contradictory, I gave up and did my own methodical tests to see which combination of options and settings yielded the best result for creating a file on my desktop that can be shared.
Here’s what I worked with: I have a four-minute movie created in iMovie ’11, with nice titles and credits that fade in and out, and one-second cross dissolves in the film. The movie is 3x4 aspect ratio, not letterbox. Looks smooth and clean as can be in iMovie, full screen. (If it matters, I am working on a Mac OS 10.6.8; Processor 2 x 2.66 Ghz 6-core Intel Xeon; Memory 8 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3. I don’t see any “RAM” numbers for my computer.)
Tried exporting through Quicktime and not exporting through Quicktime. Most settings resulted in titles that were either fuzzy or were not clean and smooth during the fades, and often videos that were choppy and would freeze every second or so. Some had clean imagery and would play fine but got very pixilated during transitions (dissolves). Some that were much larger (higher megabyte numbers) and took longer to generate the file were actually of lower quality. Go figure.
Of all the tests I did, the best results came from doing the following. Here are two options:
For a small, convenient file that came to only 176 MB for my 4-minute movie, if you’re willing to live with some very slight image degradation and titles that show some slight compression during fades -- but looks perfect from across a room:
1) Share > Export using Quicktime > “Export: Movie to Quicktime” / “Use: Most Recent Settings”
2) Click “Options”
3) Click “Settings”
4) Compression: MPEG-4 Video
5) Frame Rate: Current
6) Key Frames: Every 24 frames
7) Frame Reordering -- unchecked
8) Compressor Quality: Best
9) Data Rate: “Restrict to 6400 kbits/sec”
10) Click “OK” and return to “Movie Settings”
11) Ignore “Filter” unless you want to alter the look of your video.
12) Adjust “Size” accordingly to your wishes. I clicked it, then selected “1920 x 1080 HD” and checked “Preserve aspect ratio using: Fit within dimensions.” This results in an image 1440 x 1080 (to fit within 1920 x 1080). Remember that if you don’t preserve your original aspect ratio you’ll get a larger/wider movie, but the top and bottom of your image will be cut off.
13) If your video is silent, make sure “Sound” is unchecked. I read somewhere that this speeds up the file-creating process.
14) Hit “OK”
15) Be sure to check where you want your file to appear. I chose “Desktop.”
16) Hit “Save”
That’s it! In my case, after about six minutes, I had a “.mov” file on my desktop that anyone can easily play (people may have to have Quicktime, though, as I understand it, but I believe that’s a free download; you do NOT need Quicktime Pro which costs $). I uploaded the file to a file-sharing site (Hightail) for others to download, and, testing it, it took me only a few moments to download (I have a FiOS fiber-optic connection, so if you don’t, it will likely take a little longer). The downloaded file played perfectly and suffered no degradation whatever from the one I generated to my desktop from iMovie.
For a super high-res version, if you’re willing to live with the size, the ONLY difference is No. 9: Change your Data Rate to “Automatic.” But as mentioned in the beginning, a standard DVD-R will only hold about 13 minutes of footage at this quality.
Oddly, this super-quality version took about the same six minutes to generate the desktop .mov file, but the resulting 1.44 GB file is far, far superior. You’ll be thrilled with the result!
The only downside –– to all of the file tests I did –– is that there is a slight loss of color saturation and contrast from the original iMovie imagery I worked with, particularly with the reds and oranges which become a bit muted. The blacks/darks came up a bit, yielding slightly less contrast. But these drawbacks are minor, to me.
If someone knows of a way to preserve the exact original color saturation and contrast, I’m all ears.
Ken M.

How do you burn an iMovie project to a DVD without using iDVD themes?

I created a presentation (slide show with music) in iMovie and need to burn it to a DVD. When I pull it into iDVD, it forces me to pick a theme which puts more music in. I just want it the way I have it in iMovie! How do I do that?

(From fellow poster Mishmumken: )
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
Our resident expert, Old Toad, also recommends this: there is a 3rd export/share option that give better results. That's to use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option. Then in iDVD go to the Media Browser and drag the movie into iDVD where you want it.
Hope this helps!

Exporting for DVD without using iDVD

Hi
I've downloaded 5 x mini DV tapes (from a client) onto iMovie because I was having major audio syncing problems using Final Cut Pro.
Using iMovie proved the perfect solution.
What I'm not sure about now is how to export the file, so that I can burn it onto DVD using Toast and so that it self loads when put in the DVD player.
In FCP I export 'Quicktime Movie' and take off the 'Make movie self contained' option. The file I get is then great to put into Toast as a video then DVD-Video, which when played in a DVD player self loads.
This system is great because it avoids having to go through the DVD authoring phase and for these small client jobs it is really necessary to cut down time.

Don't try 'drag and dropping' the iMovie project file (the icon with a star) - that file won't work.
I don't like to contradict you, Fred, but since Toast 6.1.1, FOR SURE, the project-file with the star-icon does work with Toast.. that updated version "catches" the ref.mov from inside automatically.... no need to export anything manually...
but, as you have mentioned before:
select in Toast "video", select "dvd", THEN drop project into Toast...
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I now have iLife '05. I created a DVD in iDVD with IDVD4 and have deleted the original DV files and project (typically!!!). There is now a clip on the DVD that I want to use in another project.
Can I extract it from the DVD in any way?
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I have been faced with this problem before and have tried the different tools that are available including using UNIX scripts ect. I usually end up frustrated and spend half my life trying to understand how things work and how to use stuff. In the end it just became such a hassle that I gave up!!
What really crunched it was when I bought a DVD RW player and started recording stuff from the TV and found myself more and more needing to do exactly what you are saying. Take extracts from the TS_Video folder and import them into imovie.
In the end I saw an article in Mac World magazine for Cinamatize2 from http://www.miraizon.com. I have only had it a week or so, and am still getting used to it. What I will say is that it's a lot easier to use than all the other "scripts" etc that I've tried. It has a user friendly GUI and good instructions!! at the moment you can get it for just over $50 with the Mac World 10% discount. I think that it's money well spent if you intend to do this regularly!!
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