Once iMovie project is burned with iDVD, picture on TV is cut off on both sides.

I made a movie slideshow using iMovie and used iDVD to burn it to disc. The movie plays fine, but when played on a TV, both sides of the picture are cut off. I inerted the disc into a computer and it plays fine there... I guess the problem is just TV format?

The following is just to illustrate Bengt's comment regarding TV-overscan:
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Imovie project when burned thru idvd looks horrible

I have worked for several months on making my first Imovie. It is about 1hr in length. It combines both narration, video, soundtrack and still images. When I previewed the project on imovie looked great. I can also export thru quicktime and it looks good, but not as good as it does in imovie. When I followed the directions on how to export to Idvd, I was unaware of how poorly the finished project looked in Idvd. I burned it and was let down as all my titles where pixelated and the still images are combing real bad. Also some of the images are jerky in the ken burns effect. I find this frustrating as I can save it as a quicktime file and it looks pretty good (but not as good as in imovie). It appears to me that everything I have tried as far as importing to idvd looks horrible when Idvd gets done with it. In fact even the Idvd menu I made looks pixelated and horrible. I am making this dvd to sell to others and to present at talks I am giving. The quality is so poor I am thinking about bagging the whole project. I noticed on the forums regarding both idvd and imovie many of the questions about the quality degredation in idvd dont get answered. Or when they do get answered, the answer is to purchase final cut or more software in general. What I want to know is can I make my excellent looking imovie look acceptable in idvd? If not, why? Why would mac make a option to make a movie project look good in imovie, but the only way to export it is to make it look horrible? Also, is there a way to make a dvd in idvd that looks as good as my Imovie project (without dropping 1,000$ for more software which I am not going to do as now I don't trust it until I see it first)? What am I missing here?

Hi Adam,
Just some general comments about exporting from iMovie '09. From posts on the forum, and from my own experience, it's best not to use Apple's preset export option "Share to iDVD". You may not have used this, but it produces an AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) movie that doesn't look good when burned through iDVD, for some reason. Odd, considering that iMovie edits in this format. _The option "Share to Media Browser" gives much better results._
You don't mention what format your source footage is (to the best of my recollection). This may have a bearing on the final result (burned DVD). Is it DV or AVCHD or some other format? iMovie '09 has a reputation for producing less than stellar results with DV footage, due to the way it handles interlaced material. AVCHD footage turns out quite well on DVD after editing in iMovie.
If you have not already tried this, export using "Share to Media Browser". In iDVD, from the Media tab, drag your movie into the background area of the iDVD theme, then proceed to set up the DVD as usual. When sharing to the Media Browser, you have a range of sizes to select from. Try Large (960x540) and also HD (1280x720). I've used both but see little difference, if any, in the final DVD. But I do get quite good results with both. The picture is softer and less saturated when compared with the original AVCHD footage viewed via the camcorder on an HD TV. This is to be expected, given one is HD and the other SD, of course. But it shouldn't be as bad as you are describing.
There are many posts about DVD quality on the forum. As you would be aware, some offer very good advice. Try different methods using a short test project to see what gives the best results for you. Look out for an e-book by Steve Mullen - not free, but some good tips there.
Hope this helps in some way. Quality issues can be frustrating!
John
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Change iMovie project while Burning in iDVD?

I use iMovie to import and process football game clips from our games and scout games. I change some clips, add titles, etc., and then ship it to iDVD for making the .img file. This process works really well.
My question is once I start the .img burning process, can I close the source iMovie project and import a new set of clips (game) into a new project without harming the iDVD burn process?
I'm very hesitant to do this as I'm not sure of the relationship between the iMovie project and iDVD when burning the DVD/.img file. I don't want to harm the iDVD processes by going to another project. Yes, I know that I can probably recover quickly, but this is normally a time driven process done in the wee hours the morning after the football games. I don't want to have to recover and start anything over at that time of night.
My suspicion is that they are independent and I can import a second project while burning the first.
Thanks
Casey
IHS Vikings

... I guess I got a bit dramatic there...
that is the question... (besides the actual "what is showtime?" in about 30min???)
I think, this is a typical Karl Petersen question..
my knowledge stops at:
iDVD uses the .imovie file as a reference, to collect all items needed for conversion; the conversion itself is a step-by-step process (menu, audio, video...); if you now change anything WHILE encoding... e.g. change the ref.mov by editing the project, or, better, delete something (a music file)… then?!
that is a vry tricky process, a kind of "collaboration" as programmers would call it...- I'm no programmer, I'm a user: when finished, I quit iM, launch iDVD, tell my Cube "nitynight" and next morning (450MHz here), my .img is ready to burn on my disk....

How do you send more than 1 iMovie project to the same iDVD project???

I have 3 separate movie projects in iMovie with chapter markers and am trying to send them over to ONE iDVD project. Every time I send a movie over, it creates a new iDVD project and I can't get all 3 movies in the same project.
I'm trying to put each movies as a submenu under the main menu in iDVD.
Any help would be appreciated!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks for the help Karsten...
OK, after a long night of trial and error, I've figured it out...
Issue 1: Files not showing up in the media pane--- miraculously after shutting down all open apps and then restarting the computer, my iMovie projects are now showing up in the movie pane of the media panel in iDVD...
Issue 2: Getting more than one movie project into iDVD with all the chapter settings--- a little more complicated!
In iMovie: SHARE > iDVD gives you a new iDVD project with 2 submenus: 1 with the entire movie, and 1 with "scene selections"
If you try to add a second iMovie project to the same iDVD project; it's not possible from within iMovie (at least not that I can figure out!).
You can add this second iMovie project to the same iDVD project by adding it to the project within iDVD from the MEDIA > MOVIES pane. This, however, will only add the movie and not give you the second submenu with scene selections.
To get the 2nd iMovie project into iDVD, I dragged the 2nd movie project from a finder window into the opened iDVD project. This adds the 2 submenus (1 with the movie and 1 with the scene selections) to the iDVD project.
Hope this is useful to someone else, too.
Thanks!

Been burning with iDVD-but it has stopped working

I have been burning with iDVD for 2 years now. I have a G4 powerbook 12inch but now my movies are not burning. They will get half way there and then when it gets to the finalization stage there will be some kind of message about the media or 0.1 or something. Is there anything I can do to quickly combat the problem; I took it to an Apple specialist and he said it needs to be sent in to be checked out. My roommate has an ibook-is there anyway that I can hook my labtop to her's and burn from her labtop. Any help would be appreciated...I will be upgrading my labtop but do not have the funds to tackle the expenses involved right now. Thanks!

My standard list of things to do first...
Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system.
Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
Reboot your Mac.
If you still can not get it to run correctly, next thing to try is to throw out the iDVD preference file. If it still doesn't work, then I would suggest you reinstall iDVD.
Patrick

When I play back newly burned disk the video is cut off on each side of the screen. It shows the entire display area in the pic window before i burn it.How can i fix this?

Idvd
when i play back the newly burned disc, the image on the tv set is cut off on each side.( there is still room on each side of the tv set for the image to show but it is as if the movie was cut about 2-3 inches off on each side) but not when i play it back on my computer?? Why is this and what can I do to fix it?

Also the tv set has wide and normal modes this does not change the loss of size. (I guess you can say it is cropped.)

Imovie 09 - exporting options for HD and burning with iDVD

I hope someone can be of help...here it goes
I shoot my footage in 1080i and import as Full HD into Imovie 09. I would like to export the movie files in 1080i so that I can burn to bluray in the near future. However, I'm currently stuck with burning to DVDs currently.
1) Does burning to DVD with movie files that are 1080i present any issues with iDVD? If yes, how should I export from imovie 09 to have the best quality?
2) If exporting as 1080i, should I use: "Export as movie" or "Export as quicktime"
3) If "export as quicktime", what are the best settings to use?
Currently, I'm using "export as movie" with "Full HD" and when I go to burn a disc in iDVD, I have to use "high quality" or "profesional quality" due to a popup that says insufficient space...the result doesn't look good. Would the result be better on DVD if I used 960x540 to export and then used that file to burn to DVD?
My current workflow take about 6 hours to export as 1080i (for 1.5 hours of footage) and then another 4 hours in iDVD to reencode.
I know, lots of questions
Thanks for taking time to read post.

Hi
As I get it - iMovie'08 & 09 are meant to produce small YouTune movies.
Not Full HD
There is NO version of iDVD that can handle HD or Full HD.
So I think You can export under Share a fairly good QuickTime movie but then You
need another tool to get it onto a DVD.
I would use
• Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro
• With Blue-Ray component
• Blue-Ray burner and disks
Still You need a
• Blue-Ray Player to be able to view it (Can't be playebacked on DVD-player OR Mac)
• PlayStation 3 - has a Blur-Ray player
I would also prepare my movie in FinalCut Express or Pro. One has to cheque
that Your format can be handled without any limitations.
Yours Vildly Guessing Bengt W

Problems with sound clips after conv. iMovie project via mediabrow. to iDVD

I have made a 30 min long project with 80 small video clips. The project is alright when viewing it in iMovie, but after I have prepared via the mediabrowser and thenaften view the project in iDVD - every other sound clips is without sound and on some video clips it mixes some soundtracks from other tracks into it. Any ideas, I'm getting very frustrated
Thanks in advance

I'm having the same problem. Everything plays beautifully in Imovie and then when its shared with idvd or media browser it all goes weird. I get sound from footage that I either haven't used at all or audio that I have detached and deleted playing over the top of other bits, or sound going out of sync.
All my video footage was shot with 12 bit audio. For most of the footage that I've used, I've detached and deleted the original audio and put other tracks over the top, the footage that still has it's original audio, I've converted so it has 16 bit audio. I hoped that would solve the problem but my newest version of the video seems to be worse than before.
Everything plays fine in imovie and then warps when it's shared.
Any ideas would be greatly received as I am going crazy and wasting a heck of a lot of time that I don't really have!!!

IMovie project quality poor in iDVD export

I'm having problems with the quality of iMovie projects exported to iDVD. The final dvd looks very pixelated, however, when I export the same project to iTunes and view the video on same TV, the video looks perfect...clear as a bell, when great definition.
Here's what I'm doing...
Video imported from my HD camera at Large 960x540,Optimize setting.
Clips moved from Events to Projects.
No major edits made in Projects outside of a trim or two.
Project 'Finalized.'
Project sent to iDVD via Share > iDVD.
Am I missing something? I've even tried omitting step 4 above...not finalizing. Same DVD result. The video looks perfect on my screen in both iMovie and iDVD as I work on it. Only experiencing problem with final DVD output.
I'm using iMovie 11 (v9.0.4), iDVD (v7.1.2).
This is the first time that I've used iMovie 11 to create my video before sending to iDVD. In the past, I've used iMovie HD and never had a problem with iDVD output.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi
There are lot's of thought's about this - read as much as You want of my notes.
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
DO not use - "Share to iDVD" in any iMovie version !
iMä'08 to 11 - "Share to Media Browser" and as LARGE or Medium - NOT HD or other resolutions as this too degrades the final DVD.
3. I use Apple Disk Util tool (or Roxio Toast™) to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

Burn with idvd

Hello. I have a problem with idvd when i want to burn a dvd, there is no problem making and prewiew the movie on imovie and idvd!! it looks great - but when I play back the dvd on my dvdplayer, the movie has been "cut". the sides of the movie has been cut and some of the picture is missing. I have tried burning in 16:9 and 4:3 ..but nothing helps

You clearly have a problem with the burn of the DVD, not with the players. I have a step by step recipe for burning with iDVD4 which you will find on http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1321467?? try this and see if your results are different. There is no point in trying the DVD on a player until you can get it to load on your mac.
You should also quit iDVD and trash the iDVD preferences that means the file com.apple.iDVD.plist in Library > Preferences but make sure you reset "Next Project" to PAL as soon as you reload.

Restore DVD-RW's RW capability after a burn with iDVD

I recently burned a very simple video from an iMovie project onto a DVD-RW with iDVD for a class project. The DVD-RW had a few files on it that I transferred to my hard drive so that I could temporarily use the DVD for the video. iDVD deleted all of the files at my request to make a disc able to be read by a regular DVD player.
Everything worked fine until I tried to delete the video from the DVD-RW and restore the files I originally had on it. I attempted to move all of the information I had burned onto the DVD to the trash, only to discover that the folder "VIDEO_TS" was read only. Further the entire DVD had been changed to "Read only." Thus, it seems that burning the movie from iMovie onto the DVD-RW by means of iDVD somehow altered my DVD from a DVD-RW to a DVD-R.
I simply want to restore my DVD-RW's Re-Writing capabilities. Is there anyway to do this?

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Imovie + garageband audio burn with toast?

Hello all,
I've been following this procedure:
1) Place all video clips in iMovie HD
2) process my voice over narrations with GarageBand (male narrator noisy)
3) Put the GarageBand enhanced audio into iMovie
4) Create the DVD with iDVD
My question is can I use Toast instead?
That is can I still burn the DVD with Toast with the audio that I processed in GarageBand?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Mike

mac shy wrote:
.. My question is can I use Toast instead?
you posted in the iMHD-section of this board.. which is vers 5 (five) of this app. answer differs on version of iMovie
answer: yes.
after inserting the GB-audio into your iM-project, save it.
quit iM.
launch Toast, select videoDVD
drag iM-project into Toast..
... done.

IPhoto show transfered and burned with iDVD will not play

Using iLife 6 - I have 425 photos in iPhoto edited and set to run 3 seconds with dissolves. Transfered to iDVD and created menue and sound from iTunes. The show appears to run fine in preview. However, when I burn the disk it will not run on a DVD player. It runs for a while and then studders or stops. Will sometimes start back up and then stop again. I have tried the following:
Have reduced all of the photos from origonal 4 to 5 MB down to 200 - 400 KB
Have tried 3 different types of master media.
Have tried 4 different DVD players. It plays best on my expensive Pioneer PRV
9200 but still has some small problems and studdering.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Is there any way to change the burn speed and settings in iDVD?
If you create a disk image, you can use Toast to burn and control speed to 4X or slower.
File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

IMovie project to DVD without iDVD?

I'm a total newbie to iMovie and iDVD (using v. 4 of both). I'm trying to help my son get a simple 3-minute iMovie project onto a DVD for a school project. Teacher will play the DVD on a TV for whole class. My question is do I have to go through iDVD to burn a DVD that will play on a TV? Is there anyway to "Share" it straight out of iMovie since I don't need any fancy openings etc.?
To let you know what I've already tried: I "shared" the project out of iMovie as a Full Quality DV and then burned that to a DV+R disk just using the disk utility. My home DVD player said "error: incompatible disk". After reading these forums I see a DVD-R is recommended, and it's better to burn through Toast (I have v.6). If I make those two changes will I be successful?
Thanks for any help for a harried mom.
LeeAnn
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Hi LeeAnn,
welcome to the  board
as Matthew and Beverly wrote:
you need an "author" tool to create a videoDVD...
what you've done with Disk Utility is a dataDVD - which is, for sure, not readable for a DVDstandalone... (it is not a computer... just a player)
* in iDVD (which is an authoring, encoding and burning app) you can modify the themes down to the ground - in result, you are able to create a black screen with a single word "start"... not-fancy enough?
* Toast allows also authoring, but has not as many options as iDVD to create non-themes dvds.... depending on the Toast version, you can create autostart-dvds - that is without any menu... (you can accomplishh that with iDVD5/6...)
* there are some free tools on the market for creating DVDs, but this is a painstaking process... not recommended for the average user...
I would use iDVD...

Disc burned with iDVD will not play in DVD player only on MAC

I used iMovie to create a movie and then shared it with iDVD. I successfully burned the DVD through iDVD but it will not play on my DVD player. It plays fine on the iMac. It is in UDF format. After reading through posts, I saved the file as a disk image and then burned through Disk Utility. This plays fine but I would really rather burn the disc directly from iDVD. Any ideas why the DVD player says "This type of disc cannot be played"?

Media quality affects the burn errors on a disc. Computer players tend to have better error correction (to preserve digital data) - set-top DVD players tend to have poorer error correction since the are designed to play commercial, stamped DVDs with low error rates.

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