Playing an iMovie using a DVD player

What format (if any) is needed in order to play an iMovie (burned onto a DVD) on a regular DVD player that would then show on a television? Is this something that is possible?

You need to open iDVD and bring your iMovie project in to create a DVD. Start with the iDVD tutorials http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/
Why? Compression. An iMovie project uses the lossless DV format, which eats lots of Gigs (about 13 Gigs per hour). An iMovie project must be very short indeed to fit in a 4.7 Gig DVD. Plus, your project must be converted into mpeg format for your set top DVD player to read. iDVD does this for you; it compresses your project and encodes it for use in a DVD player. Just keep your movie within the 120 minute limit, and going from iMovie to finished DVD is pretty straightforward.
Tip: When your iDVD project is finished, choose Save As Disc Image (not Burn) and let iDVD do all the encoding, rendering, etc. (This can take several hours.) When it's done you'll have a disc image file that you can preview in your Mac's DVD Player app, store on disc, and burn in Finder or with Toast as many times as you like. If you simply Burn in iDVD you will wait for hours and in the end only have 1 DVD.

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How to play an Imovie project on DVD player

I used to use iDVD to create slideshows that I could then play on a television using a DVD player. Now that iDVD is not supported, I am trying to use iMOVIE. I was able to create the DVD, but it will only play in a mac or pc. Not in a DVD. What can I do?

If it can be played well on the computer, but not the DVD Player, it can be due to the incompatibility between the disc and the DVD player. Here are some tips for you:
1.Choose a suitable disc, which is compatible with your DVD Player or you can go to this website for help: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers
2. Change another brand of the blank disc to have a try. And please make sure the DVD is created in the same TV standard with the DVD player.

Im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5

im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5.
after making the photo slide show, i clicked share>export movie. after which i burned using toast. the file became a .mov. i tried playing it in my mac and it worked. my fear now is will it also play in a regular dvd?... i read from google that mov files won't run in dvd players. what format should i convert it to so it'll play in a dvd player. can you suggest a faster way i can burn my projects for it takes me almost an hour to export. im going to make 28 slideshows for my kids in school. *=( if i need to do this process 28 times, i may not be able to finish it on time. please suggest a software or an alternative as to how i should do this... m more comfortable using imovie than iphoto. thanks and i hope to hear from someone soon *=j

Thank you QuickTimeKirk...used toast to burn project... my project was in .mov, i tried to play it a dvd player, it did play... will try again tomorrow using another dvd player just to be sure it'll will really work with dvd players. thank you again for your reply *=)

I have made a slide show using iPhoto - how can i play this on s standard DVD player connected to a standard TV?

I have made a slide show using iPhoto - how can i play this on s standard DVD player connected to a standard TV?

Try posting in the iPhoto forum where those experts are.

DVD will play on iMac, not on DVD player

I'm burning dual layer DVDs from iDVD. The DVDs won't play on my DVD player, but will play fine using the DVD player on the iMac. Anyone have any idea why?

But for 6 hours of VHS video, it will take two DL DVD disks.
You might want to think about importing the footage into iMovie and editing it.
I put footage from about 35 VHS tapes and about 40 Hi-8 tapes onto miniDV tapes for importing into iMovie and found that there was a quite a bit of bad footage: shots of ceilings and floors, jerky movements, shots of nothing important. With good editing, the footage total time length was cut down, and I have been able to use single-layer DVDs for all my iMovies. I have put our family's photos and videos onto DVDs in chronologic order. I have now done 30 years worth--the last 10 years were recorded onto miniDV tapes so no conversion needed. Some years took only one DVD; other years had to go on several; a couple of years we were very busy on trips/doing plays and sports and it took 5 or 6 disks for the year.
If you are not interested in editing, you wouldn't need to use a computer, just get one of those VHS-DVD converting machines.

Problems with IDVD not properly playing on my tv's dvd player

I made a movie in iMovie using the scrapbook theme. I produced a DVD on iDVD. The DVD will not play on my televsion's DVD player properly. Part of the picture is missing. Any help?

Hi
iDVD 6 has two levels of qualities.
• Best Quality (movies up to 120 min) - slightly lower quality than - se below
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min) - Highest quality on final DVD
in iDVD’08 there is even a Pro-Quality (120 min) - very good.
If You need to press in more - You lose quality - even worse than VHS.
• Then You need another program to do the .mpeg2 code eg Roxio Toast™
or COSTLY - Copressor (part of FinalCut Studio bundle) Here You should
be able to squees in about 4h on a SL DVD. BUT still quality is reduced.
Yours Bengt W

DVD Remote Control buttons don't work when using regular DVD player

I created a DVD using DVD Studio Pro (version 3.0.2) and am unable to navigate through any menus or buttons using the DVD players remote control. I can press the play button on the actual DVD player and play the movie. How can I fix this issue? Any suggestions would be helpful!
I never changed the default setting on the file I made and the DVD works just fine in the simulator as well as any computer DVD player. Also, is there a way to make sure the DVD will play on all DVD players even if it doesn't read burned DVDs?
Thanks for the help!

Not sure if I can add anything here - you're in good hands! I'd like to know how you constructed the menus - did you use photoshop layers for the background and overlay, or did you use a pict file? Are these motion menus or static?
About the compatibility - a burned disc will only ever be about 85% compatible with the number of DVD players out there, and if a DVD player states that it cannot read from DVD-R or DVD+R discs then it most likely won't play your disc. The only way to approach full compatibility is to have the disc replicated, but the cost of this usually means it is not worth while for anything less than 500 to 1000 discs at a time. If you are using DVD±R then all you can do is take steps to make sure the disc is as compatible as it can be, such as keeping the MPEG encode less than 7.5MBPS, using AC3 audio, not applying paper labels and so on.
Compatibility is getting better in general, this summer I have burned in excess of 90 individual projects on DVD-R (and duplicated each one up to seven times each) for playback on consumer players and only one came back (so far). When I looked at it there was a chunk missing from the surface of the disc, which probably explained the error!

DVD will play on MacBook not on DVD player

I burned a slideshow with music using iDVD. On the MacBook it plays fine. On the dvd player the music is clear, but the pictures scroll vertically on the screen like on old film projector. I decreased the burnspeed to 1x with no effect. I am using DVD+R and they work fine when my wife burns things on her PC.
Any suggestions?

Hi
When iDVD starts to behave funny then it usually is corruption to this file that's
the cause.
This is very common.
• Quit iDVD
• Locate it at - Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and it is named. com.apple.iDVD.plist
• Move it to desktop - or trash it
• iDVD will make a new error less one at next start-up of iDVD
To set up a new user account and log into this does the same - but discards
lot's of other eventually faulty ref. files.
Yours Bengt W

Trouble scrolling on the main menu using my dvd player.

I can't seem to move to the scenes button when I'm on the main menu using my DVD player. This function seems to work fine on my computer. Before I burn another (very long) disc and try again, does anyone have any suggestions?
Natalie

If I have two buttons, one for Subtitles on and one for Subtitles off, how do I make it so that the one that is chosen is highlighted?
You set it by changing the menu's property for the default button. This is one of the reasons a separate menu is generally used. If you have a single menu with 3 buttons ("play movie," "subtitle on," and "subtitle off"), and you set the default to "Active Subtitle Track," then your "play movie" button won't ever be the default.
To play with this and to decide how you want your disk to work, create a test EN project with 2 menus. Rename one of them "Main Menu" with 2 buttons "Play Movie" and "Subtitle Setup." Rename the second menu "Subtitle Setup" with 3 buttons, "Subtitle On," "Subtitle Off," and "Main Menu." As noted, the "Default Button" property for the menu "Subtitle Setup" will be "Active Subtitle Track." The button "Subtitle On," using specify link, will link to its own menu, default button, but will specify Subtitle 1. Same for the button "Subtitle Off," except that it will specify Subtitle Off. The Main Menu button simply links to the main menu.
Note that in Encore preview, do not use your computer mouse to hover over the buttons. It will trick you into thinking that you have or have not set the behavior correctly. Use the little remote function in the bottom of the preview window.

Cannot use BD DVD Player: WIN DVD MFC application has stopped working

Tried to install my old version of WinDVD and failed and in the process may have accidentally deleted a file,
for now whenever I try and use BD DVD Player I get the following message:
'WIN DVD MFC application has stopped working '
I tried using restore point but still get it, can anyone advise please?

It will be interesting to know which notebook model do you have.
Anyway, in my opinion there is some software conflict. I can imagine both players use same modules or plug-ins and there is conflict.
I dont know what solution can be but maybe you should remove both players, restart your notebook and make clean BD player in hope it will works properly.

I have been looking for a solution for making my videos capable of playing on anything such as: DVD player, Mac, PC, etc.

I have been looking for a solution for making my videos capable of playing on anything such as: DVD player, Mac, PC, etc. I have not found a format that will play with all of these. Is there a format, software, or do you encode it? I am new to production. I can make a video and make it work for a certain thing just not all.

There is no such thing as universal format and that is that. You are looking for the magic pearl that doesn't exist and rather than waste your time on a futile search, it would be better to actually read up on the various formats and their limitations, including how playback devices may or may not support this and that.
Mylenium

Can videos from my dropbox be played on sony blu ray dvd player BDP S580?

can videos from my dropbox be played on sony blu ray dvd player BDP S580?

Hello ptsotsos, thank you for your message. Welcome to SONY Community!
Unfortunately the Blu-ray disc player cannot play videos from dropbox. When the Internet video device is connected to an active network connection, you can browse web sites or surf the Internet. However, the built-in browser is not designed to replace the web browsing functionality of a computer.
NOTE: Web pages may not display correctly and some web functions such as downloading or saving Internet content may not work properly.
Hopefully this post helps you!

Can't burn DVD but image plays just fine in Apple DVD player

I can make a DVD and save it as an image, which DVD player will play flawlessly. I just can't burn it to a DVD. It fails continuously. Maybe it's my media? Can anyone recommend media known to work well in a MacBook Pro (last version)? Any other suggestions? thanks.

It is easy to burn from a disk image, and it is better because all the media needed is already within the disk image file. It doesn't have to search, locate and pull in the media for the burn. There are many places for errors to occur. If you have successfully created a disk image file, just burn from that.
Also, a disk image file is self-contained. You can safely delete both the original iDVD project and the original iMovie used to make it if you are finished editing them. Because the disk image file is small, you will save drive space. You can also burn a new DVD disk of that project any time in the future, without having to remember if you moved the original media, or renamed anything used in that project. Of course, you cannot edit a disk image, but you can't edit a burned DVD disk either.
Many users here report that DVD-R disks are better and play in more types of set-top players. Others think DVD+R disks work fine. I always use Verbatim DVD-R, burn at 4x or less, create a disk image file of all my iDVD projects and I have never had a burn issue.

I have an '09 macbook and want to transfer selected pictures to a disc that will play on my tv's dvd player. How do I do this?

I have an '09 macbook and want to select specific pictures to put on a disc that will play on my televisions dvd player. How do I do that?

OM gosh! After working on this for 2 days, by golly, I got it! I used Free App DVD Creator. I had first tried to burn the disc in PAL Format.....wrong format for the good 'ol USA. After a little research I learned that the USA format is NTS.....so I chose that and it worked! I now have a disc I can play on our dvd player on the TV. Thanks all for above assistance. Problem now solved!

Can I use my dvd player with apple tv?

I just got an apple tv unit. I have dvd's stored to a hard drive and want to stream to the tv through the apple tv unit. However, the dvd player will not work when I do this. It works fine if I play on the MacBook, but one of the primary reasons I got the apple tv unit was for streaming. Is there an app or download to solve this problem? Or, should I use a different dvd playing program or application?

Yes, you should be able to.
How to use AirPlay -
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4437

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