Making more than 2 hr. DVDs?

This may be a dumb question, but is there a way to make DVDs longer than 2 hours with iDVD 5? With the onset of dual-layered burners and media, it would be nice to be able to expand projects beyond 2hours. I love working with iDVD (better than Toast, which can go beyond 2 hours). Is this possible or do I have to wait for iDVD 6 or beyond?

WHY iDVD has this 2 hour restriction or single layer discs in the first place. If it's an issue of quality then surely we're all adults and can make our own mind up about quality.
iDVD is a consumer app with a minimum amount of room for user tweaking and user errors (OK, the user can erroneusly burn the wrong video standard and make other dumb mistakes...).
But anyway, Apple wants to play it safe and not let users mess with obscure settings and then complain that the output is poor. At 120 minutes the iDVD quality clearly starts to drop even with rather good input.
Remember that those commercial long DVDs were shot and encoded with $$$ equipment so they tolerate being squeezed on a single sided DVD much better than cheapo user videos!
That said, also I sometimes miss tweaking options in iDVD. For example, it would be nice to be able to use compressed AC3 audio in long DVDs (or always). At the moment the uncompressed PCM audio wastes bandwidth that the video would very much need.

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Burning more than one dvd

Anyone know of a way to burn more than one DVD at a time with DVD studio Pro if you have two burners in your machine?

Hi Mossie,
I got a product this summer - Dragon Burn from NTI.
http://www.ntius.com/dragon_burn.asp
It's not as easy as Toast, but works pretty well. There are a few extra steps to creating the disc image to burn from , but not too bad.
Give it a try. They have a demo on the site.
Bill

Encore can't burn more than one DVD at a time: Sense Code 56400

For a long time now I've been unable to burn multiple DVD's at a time. I burn more than one and I get an error and have to make a coaster out of yet another DVD
I just upgraded to 24 gb of DDR3 PC 1600 RAM, I have an 6 Core Processor, I have 7.8 on everything accept my hard drive which is 7.0 out of 7.9 according to my Windows 7 Pro. 64 bit system.
I have 2 different DVD burners, one is a blu-ray burner too. I have the same issues, only different error readings it seems, on both drives. The first drive didn't burn even one for some reason so I tried the second. The second drive would burned 3 and on the fourth I got the errors' which I've included screen shots of below. I was surprised I got through three before I got to this error. By the end of the week I have a large project I need to make 30 DVD's of. HELP!!!!!
A long time ago on my older machine I had similar problems and I went through different drives and discs until I seemed to come up with the magic combination which seemed to be a Plextor burner and Verbatim. But, then i got a bad batch of verbatim and tried Maxell and used those successfully for a while. Right now I'm using what a friend gave me, TDK's. I'm wondering if that's what the problem is... HELP!!!!

I have managed to get it to work consistently now. I just burned 20 DVD's without a problem.
I tried everything you suggested except the imageburn software. I didn't like that site, I was too anxious to try and figure out where to download that software in the midst of all the advertisements on that site.
After clearing out everything in startup and services except what I needed I still wasn't able to burn successfully. Finally I went and purchased some Verbatim DVD-R discs and wahlah! Actually, after the first try with the verbatim I had an error code when trying to burn with Encore. So, I created and image file as you suggested and then I used Cyberlink's Power2Go to burn the image file and from there on it seems everything is solid.
I think the biggest problem was using TDK discs. I came to the realization a few years ago that certain disks are not as predictable as others and that verbatim and maxell seem to be the best. I did get one bad batch of verbatim though one time and that's when I switched to Maxell. My friend gave me 200 of the TDK's and I've been having problems ever since. But, I wasn't sure what it was exactly because he gave me those around the same time I rebuilt my system.
I had also found the Plextor seems to be the best bet for burners. But, I had been using an HP one lately and thought maybe that was the problem. However, now it seems to be fine.
I really don't know what fixed it. I mean, nothing definitely worked until I started using the Verbatim today. But, that first verbatim erroring perplexed me. I had done some other things too, like removed some programs, like a bunch of HP printer crap. I even removed my virus software, Window Security Essentials. I just reinstalled it so now I'm wondering if I can burn as consistently. I had seen somewhere where someone said they removed Windows' Defender to get theirs working.
Anyways, I guess what I need to do is format my main hard drive, only put adobe stuff on it, and then take my old computer set it up for everything else. That'll probably be the best thing to do... If I have anymore problems like this I'm doing that right away!

Making more than one layer visible simulteneously.

Csn anyone show me how to select more than one layer, and make them all visible/invisible, without having to select each layer individually, and clicking on each eye icon individually? This is very tedious when needing to make a large number of layers visible/invisible.
Thanks for any tips.

Yes.
Add a new site and change the FTP/MobileMe/Publish to folder info just as you did with your current site.
They are independent of each other.

Has to be more than a dvd problem...

Lucky me, my warranty expired last week...it's as if they have a button, once your warranty is up...BAM. I kid.
In the year I've had my PB I had to replace the superdrive. It worked fine for a while. I'm talking store bought DVD's. Then after a while dvd's would only start up if I had the pointer over the controller making it stay up. If I didn't the numbers would stay at zero even though it shows up on the desktop and dvd still spins. No error message, only way to remedy is a force quit. That was until two days ago. Now the dvd player won't start unless I have the force quit screen open...Am I crazy or is this really possible...
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I don't expect any one person to have all the answers, as I stated earlier my warranty just expired so, any suggestions or anything would be greatly appriciated...thanks... P.S. Am I the only one this has happened to?

Have you checked your HD surface scan? You can check that using Techtools pro or drive genius and scan the HD.
If there are any bad blocks/sectors in your HD it could gives the problem like you described.
Hope this help
Flippo
PS: if your HD does have bad blocks/sectors this manual will help you to replace the HD.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/55.5.0.html

Help. javac keeps making more than 1 class with a $2 at the end.

I'm taking my first Java class and I'm supposed to submit 1 class per assignment for my 2nd assignment, javac is making practiceB$2 and practiceB$3.
here is the entire code
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import java.awt.event.*;
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Even if I cut and paste the sample code I still get the same error
Edited by: 806143 on Oct 28, 2010 4:47 PM

806143 wrote:
Sorry, I figured there might be something wrong. We have to do 5 "labs" per assignment practice A through E then submit the classes A through E.
Submittal
1. Upon complete all the learning activities, create a zip file named lab2.zip with only the following files in it.
 practiceA.class
 practiceB.class
 practiceC.class
 practiceD.class
 practiceE.class
2. Upload the zipped file to Assignment 02 through Blackboard.
That's why I was bit confused.I'll bet that since your putting all your *.class* files in a zip folder, it would probably mean these are the files which contain the<tt> main() </tt>method, and that there will probably be more files therein. Just as long as professor can launch your app with these files, I'm sure you're good to go OP.

Burning more than two DVDs in a row impossible?

Hi,
I have a rather big project that needs a DVD DL to fit on one disc. Following the instructions in the iDVD help, I'd like to make several copies directly from iDVD without using a disk image because burning from a disk image does not comply with the standards for a DVD DL.
My problem: Encoding takes a long time. After burning the first disk, iDVD prompts me to insert another one to burn on so you don't have to do the encoding again. When about five minutes are left to finish this second disk, iDVD ejects the disk. But the remaining time still runs. And when reaching the point "about one minute left", nothing more happens. I have to cancel the process. Consequently, when I want to burn another disk, I have to do the complete encoding again - which I do not want, of course, because it'll take ages until I have done all my copies.
Any ideas about this?? Thanks!

When I've made DL DVDs, I've created a disc image and then burn to Verbatim DVD+R DL at slow speed.
...because burning from a disk image does not comply with the standards for a DVD DL.
Why not?
There is always some concern that creating a disk image file won't properly set the dual-layer break point. Anecdotal information in the forum suggest this isn't a really a problem.
Daniel, just do what Len said...

Can't burn more than 1 DVD

So I finally got iDVD to work - I can't use a theme or anything, I'm just burning "one Step DVD from Movie..." I'll deal with the theme problem later but I really need these DVDs burned by tomorrow... so here's the problem: I burn the DVD just fine, the disk ejects and then iDVD says "done" and it is stuck 'thinking'. Then have to force quit and open iDVD back up to burn another disk. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Can you save your DVD project as a disk image? It will go through all the encoding, but instead of burning a disk, you get a disk image that is the exact copy of the DVD. You can use the disk image to burn further DVDs through Disk Utility. If you go this route whenever you make a DVD project, you can save yourself wasted disks if there is a problem with burning.
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Making more than one burn

What is the quickest way of burning several copies of the same IDVD project? Seems like there is a two stage process going on when I burn a project. Asset encoding and then the burn. I have to do 10 copies of a project. Is there a way to speed up the process?
Thanks in advance

Seems like there is a two stage process going on when I burn a project. Asset encoding and then the burn.
Yes, that is right. If you use File > Save As Disk Image, then you are only doing the encoding part (which BTW is the lengthy part of the process). Then you can use the saved disk image to burn as many copy of DVDs as you wish ( Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X )

Breaking long movies into more than one DVD

Help! I've created a movie with a bunch of chapters of a training that we did and now I need to burn it on a DVD but its way too big...how can I break it up into two or three dvds with idvd?

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Problem Making More Than One ALSB Call From BPM

Hello,
I have a very simple BPM process, with a begin node, two automatic nodes, and an end node.
The first automatic node makes a call to a web service running on ALSB (ALSBServiceA)
The second automatic node makes a call to a second web service running on ALSB (ALSBServiceB)
What I find happening is that the second call is not being executed (ALSBServiceB)
The web service invocation from the first node executes okay, but it seems that the invocation from the second service is just ignored.
What is strange is that if I reverse the order of the nodes (e.g. executed ALSBServiceB before ALSBServiceA) then, the ALSBServiceB executes while ALSBServiceA does not.
It appears that in any process there can only be -one- successful invocation to ALSB, with all others being ignored. This is a pretty significant showstopper for us.
Is this a known issue/bug/feature?

Gary,
There is not much I can do from here without more specific details, but
the problem you describe is quite odd.
Try the following, it might help you diagnose it:
- Check the audit trail for one of the instances, to make sure that both
automatic activities were executed.
- Check the engine logs, see if there was an exception in the process
that's causing it to retry or abort the instances.
- Try running both calls from one activity.
If you can't find the cause, contact support. They will be able to help
you.
JC
On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:05:06 -0300, Gary Ng wrote:
Hello,
I have a very simple BPM process, with a begin node, two automatic
nodes, and an end node.
The first automatic node makes a call to a web service running on ALSB
(ALSBServiceA)
The second automatic node makes a call to a second web service running
on ALSB (ALSBServiceB)
What I find happening is that the second call is not being executed
(ALSBServiceB)
The web service invocation from the first node executes okay, but it
seems that the invocation from the second service is just ignored.
What is strange is that if I reverse the order of the nodes (e.g.
executed ALSBServiceB before ALSBServiceA) then, the ALSBServiceB
executes while ALSBServiceA does not.
It appears that in any process there can only be -one- successful
invocation to ALSB, with all others being ignored. This is a pretty
significant showstopper for us.
Is this a known issue/bug/feature?--
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Gross price of Service entry Sheet more than the value ordered in PO

Hi all!!
I have a PO that were created and changed by the following way:
The user created the PO of service with the quantity = 1 and the price = 50.000,00
Than he made the service entry sheet of this PO and MIRO normally.
As the fields on service tab wasn't blocked, the user changed the quantity to 105.000,00 and the price to 1.
After that, he made 3 services entry sheet to complete 105.000,00 quantities.
With this, the value delivered became bigger than the value ordered in the PO.
if I make a service entry sheet with a quantity of 200.000,00 for example, the message SE363 will be shown to me with a message that the "quantity entered exceeds quantity in purchase order".
I'd like to know if there's a way by customizing of control the price on Service entry sheet based on the value ordered in PO instead of quantity.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance,
Cris

Hi Ajit and Rajesh
Thanks for the response.
The user made a PO with one line with quantity 1 and net price 50.000,00.
In the services tab, he put a sevice with quantitiy 1 and gross price 50.000,00, and than made the service sheet entry, and MIRO.
After this he changed in the services tab the quantity to 105.000,00 and the gross price to 1 (with the objective of making more than one service entry sheet by quantity).
With this, the system let the user make many entries of service allowing the user to make entries os sheet more than the net price that is in the line of PO.
I'd like to know if there's a way configure the system to make a compare between the gross price and the net price when i'm doing the service entry sheet, because now when I change a line of service tab, the system is not considering that other service entry sheet were made.
So that, i'm having the value of ordered bigger than the value delivered.
Nowadays, the block is made by quantity as I said, but i'd like to block by price too.
Sorry about the bad explanation before, I hope that now i explained better.
Thanks
Cris

Adding More Than One Movie to a DVD

I am making iDVDs that are just about 15 minutes long. Since the dvd I am using holds up to 4.7 gigabytes, I would like to add more than one movie to a dvd project. How do I do that?

Look in the folder of an iMovie project. Let's say the project is called "My Great Movie"
There should be a small file with the name "My Great Movie.mov" That is the reference movie.
If you open iDVD directly rather than from iMovie and create a new iDVD project, just drag the reference movies onto the iDVD window and it will add the movie to your project.
On the finished DVD, you pick a movie to play it. When that movie finishes, it puts you back to the main menu to pick another.
Does this sound like what you want ?

My iPhone 4 with iOS 6 is making me start to hate Apple. Any App and at any time I open and I can not view it or move for more than 2 minutes, they close themselves. During connections, it also gives this problem and the signal disappears after a few seco

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Try a reset hold home/sleep buttons until Apple logo appears
If that does not improve try a restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
For your information
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so emotion is ignored

How can I burn more than 1 movie to a DVD when there is room on the disc for it. Premiere wants to overwrite once 1 movie is burned to the disc

How can I burn more than 1 movie onto a DVD? Once 1 movie is burned successfully to the disc, I try to burn another movie and Premiere wants to overwrite the first movie. One movie is 1.2 GB, second is 2.3; so there is room on a 4.7 GB DVD-RW.

susang
What you report is what it is.
Each burn to of Timeline content to DVD-VIDEO format on DVD disc results in the disc containing one OpenDVD Folder and one VIDEO_TS Folder.
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