One step idvd, no sound

When I'm tryong to import my dv tape through one step dvd I get no sound on the dvd. Why? I'm using pal JVC 700, anyone?

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Imovie to one step idvd transfer

I used the easy imovie option to transfer 60 minutes of minidvd data to an external hard drive..it seems to play well..However when I then transferred the movie to one step idvd, the sound track did not transfer..or rather the track is garbled..Is there a limit to the size of the imovie..or is it the external hd that is the problem.
Thank you

Several ways to try to fix things:
1) Import into iMovie and "extract audio" then try again, or even export after extracting audio to full quality DV - and use that file in iDVD.
2) Import to iMovie. Set your camera back to 16bit in VCR mode, and then export to tape. Then re-import into iMovie.
Or these:
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1001.shtml
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636
BTW I don't think any version of iDVD liked 12 bit audio......
John

One Step iDVD does not start

I am using a Sony Digital 8 Handycam DCR-TRV530. I can't get the One Step iDVD function to work. I am using a Pioneer DVR-XD10 DVD/CD writer. The camera is also directly connected by Firewire to the computer. I click on the drop down menu and click on the One Step IDVD function and nothing happens. The camera is supposed to rewind and begin playing the tape while in VCR mode but nothing happens. I don't think the camera is at fault but I'm open to any suggestions.

Yes, I did. To be more exact, however, the camera detects if you are using Hi-8 tape and will automatically begin recording in digital format. What is weird, though, is that about 20 minutes after posting my message the One Step iDVD process began working as expected.
Thanks for your response! Greatly appreciated.

I am burning my mini dvs to one step idvd.Some dvds have no audio..don't know how to fix it

I am burning my mini dvs to one step idvds.Some of the dvds have no audio while others have...how to fix this audio problem?

I'm guessing then, that you made this question from your iPhone, since you say the iPad has no Wi-Fi? You need to log into your iTunes account and update your financial information, however you can get into the iTunes Store.

One step idvd was was connecting with camera and it has stopped connecting

i had camera Canon Elura 100 connected to firewire to computer. I was using one step IDVD and it was working. Starting using I movie on another camera
downloading from a camera card. Went back hook up firewire to Cannon camera and it will not read the camera now. I have reboot, replugged in and still will not work any suggestions?

Hi
May be help here
NO CAMERA or A/D-box
Cable
• Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin (or 9-pin) FW one ?
• Test another FW-Cable very often the problem maker.
Camera
• Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
• Toggle in iMovie pref. Play-back via Camera (on <-> off some times)
• Some Cameras has a Menu where You must select DV-out to get it to work
• Camera connected to "charger" (mains adaptor) - not just on battery
• Camera set in Playback mode - NOT Recording mode
Does Your Camera work on another Mac ?
Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK e.g. recording and playback to TV)
A/D-box
• Is the dip-switches set right ?
• Set to same standard as recorded/editing e.g. NTSC 29.97fps or PAL 25fps
• Try resetting it
Connections
• Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
the Movie project to dedicated external hard disk.
• FireWire-port - Can be re-setted by - Turn off Mac and disconnecting Mac from Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes
External device’s (hard disk’s)
• Should be FireWire as USB/USB2 performs badly and so does Airport or Net-work connected ones too.
• MUST BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - DO NOT WORK for video due to 4Gb barrier.
Mac
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
I go for a minimum of 25Gb free space for 4x3 SD Video - and my guess is 5 times more for 16x9 HD ones
after material is imported and edited.
• Does Your Mac have a FireWire Port
• White MacBooks - don't
• MacBook-Air - don't
if not then a few Mac’s has a PCM-CIA slot and there are FW-Cards that makes a FW-port this way
else - NO SOLUTION
Only option as I get it is either
• Use another Mac to Capture material (to an external USB2 - Mac OS Extended formatted hard disk - or -
• Change to another Camera that can be used with Your Mac (no there are no miniDV tape Cameras that can)
• If Your Mac-Book has a PCM-CIA Card place - then there are FW-port-Cards and then
You can import via this - but I've not seen this on more modern Macs. My PowerBook G4
has one and this FW-Card-port works greatly.
SoftWare
• Delete iMovie pref. file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into this and have a re-try.
• Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
• FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
• Screen Saver - OFF
• Energy Saver - OFF
Using WHAT versions ? .
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie’08 (7.1.?), 09 or 11 ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
Other ways to import Your miniDV tape
• Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
• If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpful insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About . . / More . .
under Firewire.. what do you read . . ?
More
• FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
• Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
• Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choice / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
mbolander
Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After un-installing Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
No Camera or bad import
• USB hard disk
• Network storage
• File Vault is on
jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
see if that helps
DJ1249 wrote
The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconnect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
MaryBoog wrote
Maybe your problems is solved in the meantime, but for all others this might help as I had the same problem, also have the Sony HDR-HC7, but the 7e (Europe, PAL). I found this link today and it works perfectly
//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odw_en_GB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
What I exactly did.- put camera in play mode - open guide - choose connection guide - choose comp./printer (where to transfer movie to) - select connection.- i-link (on my camera) but equal to firewire - OK - choose HDV - choose NO for conversion of i.link.
Settings are shown then (VCR HDV/DV.- HDV and i.link-conv..- OFF), press OK, OK, END.
Switch camera off. Connect firewire cable to camera & Mac. Switch camera on, in play/edit mode.
Open i-movie, choose import from camera. On screen below the camera connection is shown.- DV (HDV). Now you can import, automatically or manually.
This worked perfectly for me. Took me 2 days to find out. Could not find any clear thread explaining what I had to do on the camera and the manual was not clear either.
Yours Bengt W

One-Step iDVD

I have several tapes I recorded on my new Canon HV20 dvd camcorder. I connected it with the accompanying firewire to the iMac and set it to VCR mode as directed by the One-Step tutorial. When I click onto "OK", it does nothing. Am I supposed to load the Digital Video Software disc that came with the camcorder first. I restarted the computer and repeated the process and I received a message stating "You inserted a blank DVD. Choose an action from the pop-up menu or click ignore." The pop-up options include OPEN Finder, OPEN iDVD, OPEN iTune, OPEN Disc Utility. When I select the OPEN iDVD option, it takes me back to the beginning, telling me to connect the camcorder to the computer with the firewire, insert an blank DVD and select "OK"......and, again, nothing happens!

.....and, again, nothing happens!
That's because iDVD One-Step doesn't support HD content. Sorry.
From http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6757.html ; If your camera records video in the high definition HDV format, you can’t use the iDVD OneStep feature to transfer the footage to a disc. Instead, you must use iMovie HD to capture all the footage from your camera. Then, within iDVD, you can add the movie to a project, just as you do with all standard iDVD projects (projects that are not OneStep DVDs or Magic DVDs).
F Shippey

IMovie idvd - no sound

I burned my movie via One Step idvd directly from my camcorder. Sounds was present but no audio on the dvd movie.
Help.

Hi Steve:
Read through these completely and see if anything applies to your set-up(both are still valid for iDVD 6):
iDVD 5: Create DVDs from a DV camera with OneStep DVD
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300735
iDVD: OneStep DVD not available for HDV format
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302540
:)Sue

ONE STEP HELP

I started to do a One Step From my DV Cam to DVD. I thought i had enough space on my HD but evidently that was not the case. I got a disk full message so i hit the stop button on iDVD. It did not stop so I had to Force Quit. iDVD seemed to have used up to 5 gig of my Hard Drive and for the life of me i cannot find the iDVD One Step DVDPROJ on my drive. I did spotlight.. and nothing. Any Idea on where the file might be/

OK. Normally iDvd does generate temporary folder for One Step. But I found a work around. I did some testing of my own within One Step iDvd to see if there is a way to tweak iDvd'08 to create a captured folder to the desktop. To my surprise, the answer is Yes ... you can do this under "Advanced" preference settings apparently. But you cannot address these preferences within one step itself or while One step is actually launched. However, you should be able to address these advanced preference settings while any of the other types of Dvd's are selected or launched. Quit iDvd and then launch One Step again. It will make a QT file ... Should generate a .mov to the desktop that looks something like this:
Click Here
I took pictures of my desktop during the entire process in a step-by-step procedure that follows:
Click here
Click on "change" and set the location to the desktop.
(It's worth noting you can address multiple copies of a 1 step w/in iDvd itself after the first copy is completed/burned).
Hope these steps are helpful but if not just come on back. And Good luck!
Message was edited by: SDMacuser

Sound missing from half of One Step DVD

I have tried a couple times to make a one step DVD directly from my mini DV tape camera. I've done this plenty before and do not know why, but this time the sound is missing from the last half of the DVD. It is on the tape, but not the DVD.

Hi
My list on this.
*No audio on DVD disc.*
Most common origin.
1 Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an audio-CD .aiff
• Use this in Your movie project
2 Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
3 Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
4. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies—except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format—that I have noticed.
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple Disk Util tool
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

IDVD ONE STEP

How do I get out of One Step? Somehow I inadvertently opened one step and now when I want to open iDVD 5, it's only one step that opens when I click on the iDVD icon. I might add, that I'm very much the novice when it comes to computers so please, don't laugh to hard at my question. Also, since I am a greenhorn, give your answers with that in mind.
Thank you
Barb

Hi Barbara,
Welcome to the Discussion.
I have not done One-Step before, so not sure if this works or not. Perhaps while you are in iDVD, try the File menu and choose New Project. This time don't select one-step.

IDVD 6- One Step and IMOVIE

I had no trouble downloading video from my Sony Handycam when I was using Panther. Now that I've upgraded to Tiger, I can't seem to get a download to work either on IDVD or IMOVIE. I'm using a firewire and doing everything I did previously with Panther.
I tried to do IDVD One Step and get this message after just a few seconds of "capturing video"-- " No video has been captured. Aborting One Step DVD creation"
When I try IMOVIE I get a blank screen with no clips showing up even if I leave the camera running for an hour.
I've tried disconnecting the camera and restarting the computer with the same results.

I had this problem as well. What I did was put the camcorder in "Playback" or "VCR" mode and pressed the play button on the camcorder so the tape would start rolling playing footage. While it is playing, all i had to do was click the OneStep DVD and it started recording.

One step stops

Trying to use one step to send video from dv camcorder to idvd, after rewind, idvd plays about 15 seconds of tape then stops and gives message no video captured, one step aborted, this happens with every tape. Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.

Hi s
Yes this sounds as Len Goff writes: timecode breaks
Did You take out the tape from Your Camera before it was fully recorded.
This introduses breaks - with some Cameras this can be mended other not.
I got two - one that when backing the tape a second are able to cont. timecode
the other one doesn't buy this cheep trick.
I would: Start a new iMovie6 project. Import the tape - this will take in all clips
even after timecode breaks.
Then export back to Camera and a new tape. Now it will be in one piece.
Pros are said to do as follows. All new tapes are recorded with just a wall or
just about anything = the tape gets a cont. timecode. Then tape is rewound
and recorded with the true material. If breaks occure at least some Cameras
will keep timecode intact.
Yours Bengt W

One Step DVD Capture Video TIme

I've just recently run into a problem with One Step DVD and would like to know if anyone else has had the same issue. I normally don't use One Step DVD but my father uses it because it requires little if any computer skills when it comes to iMovie or iDVD.
He recently came to me with a problem that has cropped up with the One Step option. When he goes to use it the the very first step in the process is capturing the Video from the camera. The camera rewinds the tape as is the norm and then the computer starts to capture the video with no problem. The problem is with the capture time/available time that shows up on the screen. For some reason the available time consistantly shows approximately nine minutes when it is a full hour long tape. I've tried finding if there is some setting that is throwing it off in the preferences and can't seem to find anything related to it. I've also tried dumping the preferences with no result. I've also tried a number of different video tapes with no change. Recently I took it home and tried it on my system where it gave me a available capture time of 17 minutes even though there is an hour of footage. Today I took MY video camera up to my folks house and hooked it up and gave it a shot and of course it gave me an available capture time of 9 minutes. So I'm at a loss here folks. Any help would be appreciated. I personally think it's the prog but I'm open to suggestions. Below are the cameras and systems I have tried this on. Remember I've tried both cameras with each computer with the result of the available capture time not matching the amount of footage on the tape.
My Father's setup
Mac Mini 1.6 Ghz
1.6 Gb Ram
OS 10.4.8
Video Camera: Canon ZR45
My Setup
Dual 2.0 Ghz PowerMac G5
2.5 Gb ram
OS 10.4.8
Video Camera: Sony TRV315

Hi Wayne,
I honestly have no explanation why iDVD / OneStep is showing only 17 mins. left of capture unless you don't have enough available HD space to capture to.
3 suggestions only:
1. Make certain you have plenty of available HD space for this process. I recommend no less than 20GB of available HD space for each hour of video.
2. Before launching iDVD/OneStep, drag and drop the plist for iDVD to the trash. Looks like this:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
3. After trashing the plist for iDVD, connect your mindv camcorder via firewire and relaunch iDVD while the camera is powered on. In most cases, iLife apps will default to the correct settings on its own (provided your mac sees the connection under system profiler).
Good luck & hope this helps
SDMacuser

One Step DVD From VCR Patched Through Mini-DV

I guess the One Step method only works with Device Control inputs?
I've got my VCR patched through my MiniDV camera, and a Firewire cable to the Mac. When I choose One Step DVD, it looks for a tape in my camera. But I can capture in FCP with this same setup.
I guess iDVD 5.0 won't let me capture this way? I don't see any preferences I can change.
Also, is there a maximum length of capture in iDVD 5.0?
Thanks!

I guess the One Step method only works with Device Control inputs?
Yep - OneStep will not work witout timecode.
from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300735
Note: OneStep DVD will only capture from recorded tape on a DV camcorder or deck. OneStep DVD will not work with analog-to-DV converters. It will also not work if you are using your camcorder or deck as a pass-through device to digitize from an analog souce (such as VHS or Hi-8). In order to function, OneStep DVD reads the timecode from your DV tape and it relies on DV device control to communicate with the camera or deck.
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Using "One Step DVD from Movie" on my IMac 10.8.6 using Verbatim DVD-R ("Life Series") 4.7 GB 16X 120, I get a wide angle version of my two minute story rather than the 3X4 standard aspect ratio that I normally get and want. Help!

While using "One Step DVD from Movie" using DVD-R Verbatim ("Life Series" 4.7 16 X 120 min) on my IMac 10.6.8 I get a wide angle aspect ratio on the DVD not the standard 3X4 aspect ratio. The Quicktime Movie is is standard 3X4 aspect ratio and the video video footage is standard 3X4 aspect ratio? Advice will be greatly appreciated.

Try this basic troubleshooting fix :
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD folder.
Click to view full size
3 - reboot.
4 - launch IDVD and try again.
Personally I would not the the one step method but create the iDVD project from scratch so you can make sure the widescreen option is not selected in the preferences and you can follow this workflow:
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 and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was 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.
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