Onestep DVD from Canopus ADCV-100

Greetings,
I'm trying to burn DVD's from a Sony CCD-TRV22 Handicam (analog) thru a Canopus ADCV-100 and into my powerbook using iDVD. iMovie recognizes the Sony but when I try the Onestep DVD in iDVD it doesn't. I've been able to import to iMovie then share through the media browser. Trying to reduce the number of steps. Any ideas?

It does not require QT Pro. Player version will suffice and it works from pretty much any QT movie.

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The OneStep DVD from Movie file works fine for my 4:3 movies -- but I can't seem to figure out how to get my 16:9 movies to come out letterboxed when viewed on a standard screen. Is there some setting I can change to give me the results I need? I don't want or need anything more than a simple video that loops -- no theme, menu, etc -- so I haven't wanted to create a 'project'.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I found the solution to my problem of burning a letterboxed SD 16:9 movie with iDVD on another forum and it worked like a charm! Details below:
Name: Christopher S. Johnson
Date: Nov 18, 2006 at 8:26:34 pm
Subject: Re: 16:9 and idvd 6
I'm not sure why but iDVD doesnt see the anamorphic flag on SD anamorphic QT movies. It WILL behave properly for HD QT files though.
This is the "Christopher S. Johnsnon" work around:
Open your anamorphic SD QT movie in QT player Pro.
Press Command-J
Highlight the Video settings in the list
Select Visual Settings in the tabs
UN-check Preserve Aspect Ratio
Change the width from 720 to 854
Hit Return and
Save the movie
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I am trying to make a onestep dvd from movie - from an avi file... but every time I make one (I followed all the directions perfectly). It looks like it is burning and takes about 4 hrs. but nothing happens. it just says I have inserted a blank dvd. Why does this keep happening?

Hi
from an avi file
.avi is not the food for iDVD - it usually can not handle it at all.
.avi - is no codec but a container - so one must use another program to figure out what codec that's in there.
Then convert it to sometrhing iDVD can use.
My UN-Structured/sorted notes up till Yet ! (May be MANY Faulth ! be careful)
AVCHD
• need of Intel Mac and iMovie’08 or 09 or 11
• can be converted to AIC via Voltaic
Containers.
.mov.
.avi.
You can use MPEG-Streamclip to convert some of the AVI files so that QuickTime can play them
and then to streamingDV for iMovie.
True file formats (?).
.asf (from QuickTimeKirk)
Your product is based on Windows OS and the .asf files are designed for Windows Media Player.
Microsoft discontinued Mac support for Windows Media Player in 2003.
iv50 - old codec on window platform.
• Open on a PC-Window with Microsoft Movie Maker.
• Put into TimeLine
• Save on ”this Computer” as .wmv
move over to Mac and open with QuickTime Pro and save as StreamingDV
(if Flip4Mac is payed then no Waterstamp and time limit)
or
Open in FinalCut Pro as is = No Waterstamp or time limit.
Flip4Mac -- //flip4mac.com
is third party software that "plays" most WMP formats via QuickTime Player. They also sell upgrades that allow conversion from WMP to QuickTime formats.
These upgrades are supported in iMovie version 6 but not for version 7 or 8 (iLife '08 and '09).
So. What to do?
Purchase one of the Flip4Mac upgrades.
Copy the files from the SD card to your Mac and convert to QuickTime formats (DV Stream would work best).
Import the new .dv file into iMovie (any version).
.dv
streaming DV    imports directly it is the same as from miniDV (tape) Camera
.wmv
iMovie is by concept meant to work with miniDV camcorders . . any other 'imports' need a conversion or are not supported... a quick solution would be purchasing a plug-in from www.flip4mac.com, 49$, which allows the conversion of .wmv (a PC format) into something useful for iM (dv-stream) ...
or, ask the emailer to send it in some other codec .. mpg4 for example .. which will be converted by iM 'out-of-the-box' ... and, to work with iM, the video should fulfill a few standards .. 720x480 pixel resolution, 30 frames per second ... otherwise, you will experience a dramatic loss of quality ..
.mp4
container not to be mistaken for .mpeg4 which is a codec - and it’s most often could contain a H.264 encoded material (PS3 and AppleTV)
.m4v
found in iMovie project folders - imported into iDVD without any problems
.mov
found in iMovie project folders - imported into iDVD without any problems
.ram     real-movie by Real-player download
Both Real Networks (.RM, .RA, and .RAM video files) and Microsoft (.ASF, .WMA, and .WMV video files) makes it VERY difficult to import footage encoded with these formats. Especially on a Mac.
.mpg
.mpeg
.vob
.vro
.m2v
.m2a
.m2s
.mts
.m2ts
.swf files are Flash files. You need Perian
.flv Awkward timing in your choice of software as QuickTime 7.4 has dropped support (we hope it is temporary) for Flash Video formats (.swf or .flv file extensions).
MPEG-1.          VideoCD
MPEG-2.             DVD
MPEG-4.         cell-phones to satellite TV - scalable
//danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/qt_plugins/3002.shtml
Mpeg Streamclip. Supported formats.
• MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3...
MPEG Streamclip converts from mpeg-1 to whatever you like (within reason).
MPEG-2 Playback File Types.
.mpg, .mpeg, .vob(2), .vro, .m2v, .m2a, .m2s
QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component
Recording types.
DV                        standard miniDV (tape)
DV Widescreen    16 X 9 on standard miniDV (tape)
HDV 1080i            Full HD quality
HDV 720p
MPEG-4
iSight
From Mac to PC - convert to .avi or .wmv
• Transport problem and 2?Gb limit on DOS/UNIX formatted hard disks - You need a
hard disk formatted on a PC in NTFS format
FAT 16 has a 2 or 4Gb file size limit
FAT 32 should be able to handle larger ones
• Rather copy back to miniDV tape (Camera) and use this
QuickTimeKirk. You don't format the drive using a Mac.
Use the PC to format using NTFS and avoid FAT 16 or FAT 32.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
Yep. They want DV-AVI as the format. Same thing but in an AVI container.
Export from iMovie to AVI (Expert Settings) and click the "Options" button to set DV as the codec.
Yours Bengt W

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Hello. I just upgraded my MacBook Pro and I am now running OS 10.9.1 I am using iDVD 7.1.2. Whenever I try to make a OneStep DVD from movie and I select the movie from my desktop, iDVD crashes. It starts the encoding and a few seconds into it, a window pops up telling me that I inseerted a blank DVD and asks how I want to handle that. When I make any selection, iDVD closes. Please note that when I inserted the DVD earlier, it asked me how to handle the DVD and no matter what I choose, this window opens again for a second time after the encode starts. Any ideas? Thank you for any help.

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it takes about six hours to finish!! The movie is 1 hour and 45 minutes. Is this a normal time to process??
For a Mac Mini like you have - probably - especially if you are doing other things with the computer while iDVD is trying to work.
Creating DVDs requires lots of patience - especially with a slow machine (by today's standards).
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I made a dvd using onestep dvd from my minidv. The video came out great, nice and clear looks awesome. The problem is there is no sound. Tried it twice on two separate days with same results. Anyone no why this is happening. The process seems simple enough I just don't know why the sound wont come through. Any help will be great.
Aloha, Sean

Hi Sean
Your original material from ? miniDV tape Camera or ?
iDVD
Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Yours Bengt W

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I appreciate the disk space problem, as the first time I tried to capture, it ran out of space on my internal drive. That's when I moved the capture to the firewire drive.
So I checked the internal drive - 13.6GB available before capture. In addition, I monitored it throughout the capture process (using the application "What Size", which tells you how big all your files are) and found it stayed stable throughout the capture sequence.
Meanwhile, the firewire drive showed the captured file to be growing as it captured more video. I've tried to capture this particular tape twice, and I see that it froze with the captured file size at EXACTLY the same size: 4,294,934,528 bytes. This is about 19 min, 53 sec. of video.
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Are you 100% sure that all the tapes are Digital 8 (DV)? Your camcorder will read Hi8 and 8mm analog tapes, and even convert them to "DV" for import into iMovie, but iDVD OneStep won't read in tapes being converted on the fly.
The other possibility is large breaks in the timecode.
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Hi
There is a lot to this. Some basic.
DVD - is a standard in it self - CAN only do SD-Video (as old CRT-TVs at it's best)
Neither iDVD, Roxio Toast™ or DVD-Studio Pro - can do anything better.
(Roxio Toast 10 (11) Pro incl BD-component - Can burn to Blu-Ray and even small movies
as this on Standard DVDs - BUT they NEED a Blu-Ray Player to be viewed)
*DVD quality*
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (vers 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality *(movies + menus up to 120 min.)* - BEST
• Best Performances *(movies + menus less than 60 min.)* - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) *(movies + menus up to 120 min.)* - slightly lower quality than above
About double on DL DVDs.
2.Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov *(not selfcontaining, 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. 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 not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly eg x4 (x1) (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application.
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).
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)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
8. Don’t burn more than three DVD at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while befor 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 shortlived 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-layer.
*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 plyback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be playbacked 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 recorde 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 JESDeinterlacer3.2.2 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 plabacked 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 choise 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 IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround eg EnergySaver
• Don’t let HD spinn down or be turned off (in EnergySave)
• 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 screensaver 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
Yours Bengt W

Exporting to Camera from Canopus ADVC 110

My saga so far: I bought a brand new Canopus ADVC110 Advanced Digital Video Converter for use with iMovie 3.0.3 on my Macintosh G4. I can't understand hardly A WORD of the instruction manual, but with detailed questions and careful coaching from the members of four different Macintosh forums, over several days of intense effort I managed to create titles in iMovie, import audio, add music to the titles, and get it all to play the way I want.
So far so good. NOW, how do I get it back OUT of iMovie, THROUGH the converter, and IN to my Sony video Hi8 camera, which shoots 8mm tape, not digital (which is one reason why I had to buy the converter)? So far, I've managed to connect the yellow video plug to the yellow video jack on the back of the converter, the black audio plug to the white audio jack on the back of the converter, and that's it. If the manual says a word about sending things back OUT of the converter, I can't find it and probably wouldn't understand it if I could. I don't know what mode to be in, how to know when it's gone from the Mac to the converter, or how to get it from the converter to the camera. ANY HELP is appreciated, thanks!

Here's a whole conversation with a guy on Usenet telling me where-all I went wrong (I haven't repeated his every remark, which were extensive) and what I should have done, with my replies on what I've done or am thinking of doing and why:
Third, you have gotten some pretty hard to follow and conflicting advice here.
To say the least! And you seem to be giving conflicting advice, too, saying I should put my entire four-hour project into iMovie using iDVD to save it, then saying iDVD won't burn more than 90 minutes on one disk anyway! (At least, that's what I think you said.) Also, I've been told that iMovie craps out right about 90 minutes anyway and nobody could possibly do a four-hour project on it, at least, as one project. And I'm a bit hazy as to how to split something into three or four parts and then reassemble it as one, if that's even possible. Luckily, I don't even want to "go there."
The point is moot as putting the whole project into iMovie, either as a whole or in pieces, is the LAST thing I want to do anyway. All I want to do is get the titles and edited pieces--perhaps a 15-minute total--out of iMovie and onto my plain old-fashioned VHS tape (a four-hour total including the fancy techy bits) without having to buy (or steal) a new camera (or a new computer) to do it!
For example, there was no real reason for you to get Toast (I don't think...). iMovie + iDVD is generally sufficient. And the whole thread about media was pretty pointless (particularly the "penny wise, pound foolish" concerns about whether the $10 or whatever you spent on some DVD blanks had been wasted...)
Well, I haven't got Toast...yet. It's just people seemed to feel that iDVD (which I admittedly haven't tried) was more prone to screwups and Toast was a better way to set things up and really see what you were getting before accidentally burning a bunch of "coasters" which I wanted to avoid. As for the blanks, I hate to see anything go to waste, either money or products, and since eventually I'd like to transfer a lot of VHS home movies over to DVD using the Canopus, I wanted advice on where best to obtain high-quality blank DVDs at good cost, which advice I got. Sorry to have to expound over every detail of my thinking process but when you start skipping all over the place people tend not to get what you're saying or why.
If one has 1) a recent Mac with a DVD-R drive and sufficient free disk, and 2) iLife (comes bundled with all new Macs)
How recent? Mine is three to four years old, and I can tell you for sure it has only a Combo drive, not a Superdrive--that's why I bought the DVD burner. Are you saying I should have bought a new Mac rather than add all this equipment to my old one?
Toast is useful for burning DVDs when iDVD won't - such as with unsupported DVD burners, or if you want more than 90 minutes on a DVD. For the price of Toast, you could have probably bought an internal DVD-R drive that is supported directly by iDVD.
Okay, you've COMPLETELY got me there. Where can I get some quotes on how much Toast would cost vs. how much it would cost to have my Combo Drive upgraded to a Superdrive? (At least I think that's what you're suggesting.) Once I learn the best source and cost of the equipment to do this, I'll look into where I can have it done (obviously taking the thing apart with a screwdriver and inserting the new drive myself is not an option.)
After that I'll worry what on earth to do with the DVD burner I bought! It was $129.00 and arrived December 13, and return requests are supposed to be made within 15 days! So obviously I can't return it for money back--at least from the place where I bought it--even though it's brand-new, untouched, never been used as I'm nowhere near the point of burning anything yet! Then returning it in favor of just using the Superdrive on the Mac (assuming I can get one for my Mac) may still be a mistake as how do I know the one I already bought won't do a much better and/or more usable job? I just want something that will work! In this case, one that will make DVDs which will play on my player without having to buy another DVD player (also over $100.00, brand new a year ago.)
Consumer DVD recorders are designed to record "live" direct to DVD from a video source.
DVD-R drives, in conjunction with a computer, aren't.
As far as I can tell, you just answered the question I raised, and in my favor. Or is that wishful thinking on my part and we're really talking about two different things here? I do know it's said a lot of DVDs will play on a computer which won't on a DVD player connected to a TV--which, given the nature of the projects I'd like to do, does me no good--that's why I thought the DVD burner a good idea!
You are assuming that your DVD recorder can record a four hour DVD.
My friend hasn't answered, but I'm pretty sure he said his would, and that people who wanted DVDs were giving him only one blank disk, not two. What mine will do, I have no idea as I've barely looked at it yet. For my own part, whether I end up making my DVDs on my own burner or having my friend make them, I think I will use two disks to get higher quality. I was asking for the benefit of the people who gave him only one blank disk and thought they were going to get the whole thing on that. As for number of copies--last he told me he had 40 blanks given to him by people wanting copies--I think most were VHS tapes but some were DVDs.
Based on what I'd read, I'll guess that:
You don't have all the raw video imported
You don't have enough disk space to do so
The DVD burner you have is not directly supported by iDVD
It isn't clear at all whether the DVD burner that you bought is a DVD-R drive (in an external case?) or a consumer DVD recorder.
Well, you certainly got all those guesses right! That's why I'm putting "the lesser, the better" into iMovie--only the complicated stuff which NEEDS to be done there--the rest of it gets done the straightforward way that I understand!
As for the DVD burner I bought, it is a LaCie DVD +/- RW 16x4x16x Double Layer FireWire device.
The ADVC110 most definitely will export to whatever analog video tape you want. Straight from iMovie. "Export to camera..."
That's what the video & audio out ports on that device are for...
There are one-way devices out there, but the ADVC110 is not one of them. I've never used one myself, but was able to determine this from the very first web page I looked at...
You have mistaken advice that you shouldn't export to cruddy VHS for a reproduction master with advice that you can't do so.
No, I didn't really, although people seemed to think that was what I was saying. Below is my response to a question on another forum explaining what I did, what I want to do, and my rationale for doing things the way I have or plan to based on advice I've gotten. If there is a better way (short of buying all-new everything!) I am open to that advice as well.
(Here follows the entire reply I posted above in response to ThomasG.)
Everybody takes on at least one project where they are completely over their head.
Gee, thanks, now I feel in such good company. So...I'm not an idiot? I have got the project PARTWAY done! Anyway, back in the "old days" of special effects, when the first "Star Wars" movies were done, a whole team of people might take five months to do something that would take five minutes onscreen, while the parts requiring only sets and actors, some of which took more screen time, were accomplished much more quickly, so I am not all that far off!
Asking advice on Usenet for such a project can quite easily cause a whole bunch of wasted time and money, following advice from folks who don't really understand exactly what you are trying to do and what constraints you are under. If you don't have a reasonable understanding of the basics, you will have a very hard time sorting the wheat from the chaff.
It certainly was hard knowing what advice to take. I started out just calling a Sales Rep at the same company from which I purchased my computer and monitor, telling him what I wanted to do, then buying what he said to buy, which I needed EXTENSIVE instructions from various online groups to make work. (The manual on the Canopus was, in particular, next to useless. You could read it all in 15 minutes but you still wouldn't know anything. I hope the instructions on the DVD burner are done by people who understand English.)
Thanks for your lengthy consideration of my problems.

Dvd from tapes

What is the easiest way to make a dvd from vhs or dv tapes?

If you have VHS tapes, you need to run the output of a VCR through an analog to digital conversion box into your computer. If you have DV tapes, and your camera has a firewire output (or 1394 in Sony parlance), you may be able to feed it directly into your computer into iMovie.
I've used a Canopus ADVC-55 analog to digital conversion box, which plays well with macs. There are other vendors with similar products.

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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OneStep DVD doesn't play

I have recently run into a problem that has never happened before. I use one-step DVD to copy home movie DV tapes to DVD from my Sony camera. Recently, the DVD is made but when I try to play it back I get a still image of one of the default iDVD templates (the black background with the curved film strip). Nothing plays. The media is there--I can find the rendered QT files, and I can drag them into an iDVD project and burn my own DVD manually with them. It is like there is some default project cached and iDVD is not making an autostart DVD via the OneStep process. Kind of complicated Any ideas out there?

It is like there is some default project cached and iDVD is not making an autostart DVD via the OneStep process.
Just to add to Len's good advice: Drag and drop this item/s to the trash:
com.apple.iDvd.plist
Followed by a simple Restart of your mac (but first empty the trash).
(use your finder and copy and paste the above hi-lighted preference file to the search field and hit return ....Btw you can drag and drop directly from the finder results/window to the trash)
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.

Onestep DVD from Canopus ADCV-100

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