No titles or transitions in iDVD

When I export my iMovie '09 project into iDVD 7.2.1, all my titles and transitions are gone. Why?

Try use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option in iMovie and add the movie from the Media/Movies pane in iDVD. That will give you better image quality results than the Share ➙ iDVD option.
You can drag the movie from the Movies pane to the Desktop and play it with Quicktime Player to check on the titles and transitions.  If all is well then drag it from the Movie pane into the menu window on the left:
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.
OT

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