Movie Length

I've created my first movie... iMovie shows that it's total length is 1:32:31
I am tried to share it to iDVD, however iDVD says it's too long.. Tried changing to DL, but with just 11 minutes to go in the burn the computer locked up.
Any ideas?

Some ideas:
There should be a way to reduce the DVD quality so that it will properly fit on a single layer disc. A 90 min movie is not too long. Try changing the iDvd preferences, projects to single layer or high quality.
Try setting the speed of the burner slower. 4x or 2x, or even 1x and leave it overnight. Sometimes they try to go too fast for their own good.
You should have at least 20 gigs of free space on your hard drive for reliability.
Try writing the dvd via a VTS folder first. (in iDVD, go to file, "save as VTS folder) Instead of actually burning a dvd, it will write to your hard disc in a folder. You can test out that folder by opening it in the apple dvd player (in the dvd player, go to file open, select the vts folder, then the video folder in it. Once it is open hit play). This gives you a way to test what you have without the mess of burning. Assuming it works, you can burn the VTS folder directly do a DVD via Toast (or maybe some other software). Toast is nice because it can automatically compress a video if it is too big for a normal DVD.
If worst comes to worst, split your video into 2 halves and burn them separately. In iMovie, duplicate the project twice leave the original untouched, and then delete the first half of one and the second half of the other...

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Movie length and dual layer burning - please help!

I just posted this question in the iMovie forums but thought it might be more appropriate here:
Hi everyone,
I've just finished my first iMovie project, and the total movie length is 2hours, 31 minutes. I've noticed from a few other posts that people say the maximum movie length that iMovie can export or that will fit on a dvd is 120 minutes.
I do however have a dual layer dvd burner on my iMac - does this mean I will be able to export/share my iMovie project to iDVD and fit the whole movie on an 8gb dual layer disc? if so, could someone please give me some advice on the best way to go about doing it?
I'm relatively new to Macs and haven't burnt a dual layer dvd yet. I'm sure that I've burnt projects of this length before on a single layer dvd using Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore DVD, but I suppose iDVD must have its own length limitations on what can fit on a single layer disc.
Anyway I hope someone out there can answer my question,
thanks!

Welcome to the Discussions Art,
If you use System Profiler (Apple logo/About This Mac/More Info...) and see that the burner is supported like here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301556
Then when you are in iDVD the Status window should look like shown here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301557
You can make a 4 hr DVD if you set the encoder preference to Quality (limited to 2 hr if on Performance), your set!

Shortening movie length.

Hi guys, I made a movie that is 7:24 long, but my movie ends after 3:29. So now I have almost 4 minutes of black blank space in my movie.
Now this is where it gets interesting. I deleted the extra black blank space in the movie, so when I compressed it, it was gone. So everything should be good now, right? Well, that isn't entirely the case.
On the mini time line thing directly under the preview screen and above the play/full screen play/back to first frame buttons still say that the movie is 7:24 minutes long, but after 3:29 (my intended movie length, which, on the time line is blue) there is a bunch of gray space all the way to 7:24. I do not understand this considering that after I compress my movie, it ends at 3:29.
This is relevant because on the mini time line above the play button and below the preview screen, the movie ends at 46% (which is 3:29) of the total 7:24 that is present on that time line. In my compressed video that I made, after 1:43 (which is 43% of the full 3:29 of the video) the video locks up. The music keeps playing, but the video just freezes on a single frame for the rest of the movie.
I have tried to re compress the video and it does not work. I've closed and re opened the program to no avail. I am thinking that because my movie ends at 46% of the total video (not my intended video) in time line under the preview screen, and the screen freezes at 43% in the compressed video, that they somehow correlate with each other, but I am not completely sure about this.
So if I can somehow delete that extra black, blank video in the time line underneath the preview screen, it will hopefully fix the video freezing in the compressed video (I hope). Any suggestions?
I have also tried to copy and paste all the footage and music to a new, blank working space but it says something about something happening to my audio. It is also important to note that after every time I compress the video, it freezes on the same frame, but the audio continues to play.

Both the video and audio file make for the total duration of a movie.
So if your movie finishes at 3:29:00 and the audio finishes at 7:24:00 the combined movie file finishes at 7:24:00, and vice versa. To cut of the movie file to 3:29:00 you need to make a hard cut in both the audio file and video file in the time line and delete the material that you don't need after that point.
Move your playhead in the timeline to the point (marker=cmdshiftb) where you want the movie to end. Highlight the video timeline and the audio timeline (shift + click video timeline, hold shift and click audio timeline). With both timelines selected hold cmdshiftt and the timelines will both be split at that point. Select all material to the right of the split in the timelines, scroll to the right to make sure there are no accidental clips pasted anywhere to the right of the split marker, do the same deletion of all files in the audio timeline. There should be nothing on the right side split mark. Now Let the movie play beginning to end to check for mistakes, it should stop playing at the split mark at 3:29:00 exactly.
You're ready to continue to the next step of saving the file with a new file name.

Add transitions maintain movie length

I am using 10.0.5 and would like to add transitions and yet maintain original movie length.
I cannot seem to find the same facility as I used in imovie9.
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General movie length vs. preset suggestions

Generally speaking, can anyone give maximum movie length based on the 4 (or is it 5) presets available in Encore?
In other words, if I transcode at preset VBR 8MB and default sound, the movie length shouldn't exceed (blank) hours.
I realize these would be approx. with menus and other items added but I'm strickly looking for movie length maximums at a given transcode preset. Thank you!

For MPEG-1 Layer II audio it would be the same, assuming that you are using a bit rate of 192Kb/s (which is roughly 0.2MB/s).
The quick and dirty method (600 divided by [video plus audio bit rate]) is my own invention. :p If you want a very precise method check Neil's
An Alternative Bit Budgeting Method
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How to extend movie length in Shake 4.1

I'm not achieving the results I want when I try to retime a clip in Shake. I want to take a 3-second NTSC clip and extend it out to 4 seconds to fill a gap in my FCP timeline. In the Parameters1 tab of the SFileIn node that contains my original clip, I entered the desired speed in the reTiming menu and set the retimeMode to Adaptive. In the Globals tab, I set the timeRange to 1-120. When I render out from Shake, the length of my new movie file contains my original 3 seconds of video and 1 second of black.

Make sure you set your adaptive first... THEN the speed change. Setting Adaptive second resets the time change.
Also - make sure your render out represents all frames too. Not just the timeRange setting.
Also -- according to one of the quys who wrote shake... the preferred method for speed change in a FCP to Shake transfer is to make the speed change IN FCP first... then use that speed as the key speed in Shake. That way you don't have to worry about how many frames you need.
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IPod 5G Movie Length Limit?

Greetings,
I had earlier ripped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition) onto my iPod 5G as two separate MP4 files (since it came on two DVDs).
However, I didn't like having one movie broken up as two files. So I converted the ripped ISOs to two MPEGs, and used MPEG Video Wizard to merge them together (I used this because I wanted the ending of the audio track of "Part1" to flow into the beginning of "Part2" - making a seamless transition).
The resulting 4h23m06s MPEG2 w/2-chan AC3 video is 9.15GB in size.
I used Videora iPod Converter to convert the movie into an H.264 320x144 768kbps widescreen video (cropped 60 pixels from the top and bottom of the original MPG - creating no black borders and maintaining the aspect ratio) with 128kbps 44KHz audio. Since it's only going to be viewed on the iPod, I wanted to keep the file size down and keep the good quality.
Now, I did a few tests. I first converted the original merged MPG file into a 3-minute sample, then loaded it up in iTunes. I went through without a problem. The video synched to the iPod with no problem.
Then I imported the full 4+ hour H.264 movie into iTunes. No problem there. But when I tried to sync it to the iPod, it got rejected ("iPod doesn't support...." yadda yadda).
So, not giving up, I made a 1h58m sample from the original merged MPG file, and converted that to an H.264 video (using the same Videora profile as before - it never changed). That converted file imported into iTunes and synched to the iPod with no problems.
All three videos were created with the same Videora profile, and all play in Quicktime and iTunes. Only the full-length movie will not sync to the iPod. I can only conclude that the iPod does not like videos after a certain length.
Also, I can't think that the file size is a problem. The 3-minute sample is 20MB, the 2-hour sample is 750MB, and the full-length movie is 1.7GB (not bad for a 4+ hour movie). I did a manual check, and the full movie's video bitrate is not quite 768kpbs.
Has anyone else seen this? Any advice? I have a beautifully edited and merged movie (that I spent some time to make perfect). And now the iPod won't love it appropriately. How rude of it to reject a movie that won 11 Oscars!
Cheers,
Keirmeister
HP ZD8000 Laptop Windows XP Pro

Then I imported the full 4+ hour H.264 movie into iTunes. No problem there. But when I tried to sync it to the iPod, it got rejected ("iPod doesn't support...."
This "long clip-short clip" problem is actually quite common and depends on both the content of your movie and the particular software used to encode it. Some applications use a "loose" encoding approach while others uses a "tight" one. Basically we are talking about how quickly the encoder responds to changes in the movie content and how well it modifies encoding to adjust for these changes. The longer a movie is, the more likely that sooner or later it will contain segments (dark scenes, rapid action on a compex background, etc.) the will cause your "peak transient" data rate to climb above the maximum allowed by the iPod. Clipping a segment to see if it will load on the iPod is only helpful if you can locate actual segmet causing the problem.
There are basically two strategies (three if you include changing encoders) you can apply to correct the situation. One is to switch from a multipass mode to a single pass and more or less keep the current data rate you are using. The single pass option in most allplications tends to "clip" these transient peaks meaning you do lose a bit of quality during those scenes. (I.e., you are trading a variable data rate for a more fixed one which has variable quality). The other strategy is to keep the multipass mode, but lower your target data rate. In this case, you are keeping a constant quality strategy but lowering the overall average data rate in the hope that this will provide enough "headroom" for your movie so it will not "peak" above the iPod's limit and will, thus, load/sync properly.
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Batch List QT Movie Lengths (including decimals)

I've got a folder containing several hundred QT movies. A client has asked that I supply him with the length of each individual movie, in the same format that's found in the QT Movie Info window (which is hours:minutes:seconds:decimals of seconds [not frames]).
How can I accomplish this task without opening each file and manually copying down the information that's in each Movie Info file? The ITunes playlist won't do it for me, because I need the decimals -- not just rounded up to the nearest second.
Thanks!

Here is a shell script for you...
You can download the script as a text file, ready to execute (well, after unzipping) from here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/16178764/qt_times.sh.zip.html
The script will use qt_info to get the raw duration. qt_info is part of qt_tools which is free from:
http://www.omino.com/~poly/software/qt_tools/
To run it, first run Terminal (from your /Applications/Utilities folder) and then drag the script into the terminal window, click back in the window and press the spacebar, then drag the folder containing the movies to the window, click back in the window and press return.
The command line would look like this:
G4:/ julie$ /Users/julie/Desktop/qt_times.sh /Users/julie/Desktop/testmpeg2/movies\ folder
Output looks like this:
qt_times - Lists the durations of movies in the format that QuickTime Player shows.
Released by the author as public-domain, free, gratis.
This script requires qt_info, part of qt_tools from: http://www.omino.com/~poly/software/qt_tools/
00:00:11.51 test movie.mpg
00:01:09.22 another movie to test.mpg
This is what's in the script...
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo "qt_times - Lists the durations of movies in the format that QuickTime Player shows."
echo "Released by the author as public-domain, free, gratis."
echo
echo "This script requires qt_info, part of qt_tools from: http://www.omino.com/~poly/software/qt_tools/"
echo
# Check if we have qt_info available
qt_check=`which qt_info`
[ -z "${qt_check}" ] && exit
# Check to see if a folder was specified on the command line
[ "${#}" -ne "1" ] && echo "Usage: ${0} <movie folder_of_movies>" && exit
# Variables
zero="0"
hours=0
movie="${1}"
tab=$'\t'
display_duration() {
# Ask qt_thing for info on the movie and extract the movie duration as reported
raw=`qt_info "${movie}" | grep "movie duration" | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f 5`
# Convert the duration to the format QuickTime Player shows
raw_seconds="${raw%%.*}"
raw_tenths_of_seconds="${raw##*.}"
intermediate_minutes=$((raw_seconds/60))
seconds=$((raw_seconds%60))
tenths_of_seconds="${raw_tenths_of_seconds:0:2}"
hours=$((intermediate_minutes/60))
minutes=$((intermediate_minutes%60))
# Now show the duration
echo -n "${zero:$((${#hours}-1))}${hours}:${zero:$((${#minutes}-1))}${minutes}:${zero:$ ((${#seconds}-1))}${seconds}.${tenths_of_seconds}${tab}"
# If the item passed on the command line was a file then do that one and exit
[ -f "${1}" ] && display_duration "${1}" && exit 0
# If it was a folder then...
# Note, qt_thing does not discriminate between media files and not-media files, try this if its a problem.
#find "${1}" -type f \! -name ".DS_Store" $ -iname "*.mov" -o -iname "*.mpg" -o -iname "*.avi" -o -iname "*.mpg" $
find "${1}" -type f \! -name ".DS_Store" | while read movie ; do
display_duration "${movie}"
basename "${movie}"
done
echo

How to correct movie length?

Greetings,
I have a movie that is 40 minutes long, but it says it is only 15 and only plays that much.
It is the same file size as all he other movies I have that length.
How can I correct the length?
Thanks

What kind of movie? Let me guess: MPEG1 or 2?
Open in MPEG Streamclip, do CMD+F to fix timecode errors which means that there are breaks in the timecode and the player stops at the 15 minute mark where the break is.
Then export to MPEG (file menu) or take that time to use Streamclip to encode as a MPEG-4 using H264 and get it smaller as well.

Add title full movie length

I'm trying to add a title (URL Actually), through the entire length of a movie being created in iMovie HD 6.
I'm not having any luck in iMovie and was thinking I could do it in QT Pro.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Luke

I don't understand your question.
You don't have to select all of your video if you wish. You can add the copied text to just any "selection". If your video starts and ends with a few seconds of black frames and you want the text over just the video you need to adjust the size of your selection.
Select all and then click the leftmost insertion point (in point). Hold down the Shift key as you tap the right arrow key. This will move the in point one frame at a time. Stop when your video appears.
Same for the rightmost insertion point (out point). Shift and left arrow key to move it backward until your video appears.
Now do the "Add to Selection & Scale" (Edit menu) and Save As.

Way around movie length limit of iDVD

Many of my projects from iMovie run over 2 hours. I only have single layer DVD writer on my Mac so I just want to create an iso file in iDVD. I then put it on a network drive and pick it up using my Windows machine.
However, iDVD won't import iMovie projects that long. I assume because my Mac only has a single layer DVD writer, it defaults to single layer projects.
What I have to do is export the movie using quicktime which takes many hours. Then, I drag the file into iDVD. This wastes a lot of time.
Is there a way to override this in any one of the following ways
1) Make iDVD take any length video from the iMovie Share Menu
2) Set the default on iDVD so it takes everything as a dual layer project
3) Set iDVD so it knows the output is only img/iso so it doesn't care about length
4) Is there a virtual dvd-R software I can use like phantom drive. That way I can set my default dvd-r to the virtual drive which will appear to the Mac as a dual layer or blue ray burner.
Thank you

Roxio Toast has a 'compress to fit' setting for videos longer than 2 hours on a single-layer DVD.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
You may notice a slight loss of quality.

Display movie length in Videos?

Is it possible to do this? it works for music videos and TV shows, but for some reason Movies doesnt display the length.

Which screen is the Main Entry Screen?
It doesn't display on the listings or in the movie details:
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2192/img0032u.png
But the other tabs (Music videos/TV shows) do display the length:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2620/img0033.png
I know about being able to see the time within the movie (when playing it) but is that the only place it's visible?
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Maximum Movie Length

How do I know how long a movie I can make in iMovie09 so it will fit on a single sided DVD made in iDVD?

120 minutes incl. menus etc.
iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced technology to encode your video, resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned abo
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

Movie length and quality

Is there any way to drop the quality a bit and still burn around 4 hours of video to a dvd?

First, in the iDVD preferences, for movies over an hour you must select Best Quality. Default is Best Performance but this is only for projects of 60 minutes or less. So check that first.
If you do have Best Quality selected, then the next thing to check is to verify your project really is under two hours in length and you don't have something like a bit of audio way out to the right making your total length appear to be, for example, 3 hours long when in fact your footage ends at 1 hr 30 minutes.
Patrick

Movie length and slideshow length

I've been reading and searching around. I have used iDVD for movies, but have never added a slideshow. I am working on what will arguably be a long movie (family vacation). Yet I also wanted to add a slideshow to show of many of our stills from the vacation. So I have a few questions:
Is there any simple way to determine the combination of pictures and movie that will fit on the DVD? I do understand that it is a combination of choices, but anything simple? (i.e. 80 minutes of movie, 0 photos; 60 minutes of movie, 30 photos, etc...)
For a simple slideshow, should I just use the iDVD slideshow or try to do it in iMovie?

No problems yet, but that's the point. I'm asking now to avoid troubles later.
I've got 5 hours of video from a family vacation from this summer. I'm going to take that down considerably for a DVD to share. No one wants to see all of that.
But, and here's the point, I need to know "down to what?" If I have 1.5 hours of video, does that mean ZERO hours of slideshow? Is it that simple?
Or are slideshows somehow saved on a different part of the DVD?
If its simple (our friend above said there was NO simple way to determine this), then fine. Am I correct its 1.5 hours in iDVD 5?
If its not simple, then how do you figure it out?
I just don't want to take a lot of time creating an iMovie project of a certain length only to discover that there isn't room for the slideshow of stills. Or, at least find out something like---"hey, your movie is 1 hour and 10 minutes, you can now ONLY make a slideshow of 20 minutes---however many pictures you can get in, in that time." That gives me a simple guide.
Hence my original question---is there not some simple way to know? I've done enough iDVD projects to know there is a movie time-limit. I've never added a slideshow.
Now can you give me some insight?

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