Possible to edit DVD created with iDVD, redux?

Created a DVD using iMovie then iDVD and burned. Didn't save original setup in iDVD. Would like to edit DVD and re-save as new DVD. Is this possible?

As Bengt says, you need to rip the content from the DVD disk to a new iMovie and then create a new iDVD project and burn a new disk from that. You can use Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip or Ripit to extract the video file from your DVD disk. Here are directions for doing so that I took from a post by AppleMan(Thanks, AM):
+I have found I get the best results when I use MPEG Streamclip (which is free). You also have to install the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component which costs about $20. Once you install the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component, you don't have to interact with it, but MPEG Streamclip needs it.+
+Insert your DVD in your drive. If DVD player runs automatically, shut it down. You should see your DVD as an icon on the desktop. Open it in a finder winder. You should see a folder which has VOB files.+
+Open MPEG Streamclip and drag these VOB files into Streamclip. If it offers to fix timecode breaks, say yes. You can do the VOB files one by one if you want to deal with shorter clips. Or, you can drag all the VOB files at once and create one long clip, or use streamclip to separate them into smaller clips.+
+In Streamclip, select File/Export using Quicktime and choose Apple Intermediate Codec. You may want to check "Deinterlace" in this step. Try deinterlacing and see if you like it. It depends on your final target media as to whether this will help.+
+Now you should have MOV files in Apple Intermediate Codec which can be imported into iMovie.+

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Just a simple question:is it possible to play the dvds I created with idvd in quicktime? and if so, how?
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[solution inside] Poor quality of DVD created with iDVD '08 (jerky movie)

Hi everyone !
I have a problem with the export of iDVD, the result is jerky.
Here's what I done
- filmed (cam sony 42E, DV)
- imported to iMovie '08, exported to the media navigator
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And it looks like the movie is 15 images/s (but apparently no problem of sound)
I checked everything's in PAL (I'm in Europe)
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I had the same problem with jerky pans and dancing pixels particularly when using Ken Burns on stills.
Here is a solution. Save the 08 movies in Quicktime using AIC encoding then burn using Toast 8 with the quality slider set to best. The improvement in quality is substantial.
There is some improvement(not as much as using Toast) using Quicktime AIC encoding then burning with iDVD with Professional Quality and dual layered DVDs just to make sure the quality indicator is well into the green.
The disadvantage in using Toast as compared to iDVD is that the cool menus are lost.
PS: All my burning is done using NTCS but it should not make a difference.

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I've been burning for some time now and haven't had this problem before. Disks burned two weeks ago are fine, these are not.
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I'm not saying for certain that you do, but you may have a problem with the optical drive.
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Welcome to the forums!
That is strange! DVDs made with iDVD are in the standard format of mpeg2 and should present no such problems.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2059

Editing a film with IMOVIE and create a DVD memu with IDVD

Dear all,
I edited a film with Imovie (with music, picture effects...). Now I try to create a DVD memu with IDV. For example, for a trip, I want to create a main menu (Australia) and sub menus (Sydney, Red center...). With this sub menu I want to attach some specifics sequences of my film edited with IMovie.
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I had the same question about iMovie'08 a few days ago. You need to add the chapters outside iMovie'08. I found this freeware at http://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html and it worked well for me.
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Hi All,
My friend and some crew guys recorded themselves doing sound check, playing some songs, and being silly. It looks like whoever gave him the DVD of him singing created the DVD with iDVD and it has an audio_ts folder and video_ts folder.
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How can I burn on a DVD a slide show created with iDvd ?

I try to burn a DVD with a slide Show I create using iDvd. If I whatc the slide show using my Mac all is OK.
When I burn that slide show on a DVD and I put the DVD in my DVD reader, conected to the television, the quality of the images become very poor.
What's appens ??
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Hi
When I burn that slide show on a DVD and I put the DVD in my DVD reader, conected to the television, the quality of the images become very poor.
What's appens ??
As I see it - it falls back on that DVD is as STANDARD only Interlaced SD-Video at it's best (even commercial made ones)
The Quality You see on Your Mac is prior to this down-scaling process.
If You need higher quality (and this includes several problems)
• DVDs can not be used
• You can try Blu-Ray (short one on DVD disks) - BUT You also need a Blu-Ray Player as a PlayStation 3 (you also need a program that can author BD-Disks as Roxio Toast™)
• You can try to Export as HD and to an USB-Memory stick - if You have any device that can take this
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I have a project I put together using Final Cut Express and Logic Pro. I created the DVD project using iDVD, and am having problems with the disks that I burn - they hang part-way through on various devices (after multiple burns).
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Nope. Can't do it that way. Much better to do a fresh install to each mac......or Unless you made a bootable clone of your existing HD with CCC or SuperDuper on a like mac system. Did you do this?
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Hey guys,
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So, I tried putting it in my DVD player and it wouldn't read it. I put it in my desktop PC running XP and it said the disk was blank. I put it back in my Mac and it played fine, like a normal DVD would (opened DVD player and started playing).
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Oh, and when I inserted the disk into my Macbook and hit Get Info, it says the disk is only 3.63GB (I can see the TS_Video and TS_Audio files). Why did it tell me it was too big for a DVD5 then?
System: Macbook 2.2GHz, OSX 10.5.2 Leopard, 4GB Memory, 56GB free space on HD.
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Those are some good suggestions.
I'm going to check the encoding quality on my machine. I think I'm using best quality.
I have double the 25gb free space on my drive, so that shouldn't be an issue.
I didn't use iMovie. I edited the videos in Sony Vegas 8.0a Professional on my PC to encode my m2t files to MPEG-2 and transfered the MPEG-2 files to my mac's desktop and imported from there (drag and drop into the main page of the theme). The files play fine in Quicktime before importing them and the DVD plays fine on my mac after burning it.
I did choose to burn at highest speed, tho. I'll change that.
I'm using Memorex DVD+R DL (they've always worked flawlessly on my PC). I also have Memorex DVD-R DVD5s, but the program said it was too big for a DVD5 (the project is 4.8 GB on disk yet the DVD only had 3.6 GB of data on it).
I'll try the disk image and then burn using Toast or Nero on my PC and see if that works.

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Robert,
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Currrently everything is working fine but wanted to get some extra features from iphoto/imovie/idvd. I don't want to lose my pictures or movies or need to recreate everything.
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I would NOT trust any previous project to open
right in iDVD 6. My only iDVD 5 project was a
disaster when opened in iDVD 6. I was finished with
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apps are worth the money over 4. But install Tiger
first and get to 10.4.4 before installing iLife '06.
I would do an Archive & Install of Tiger and download
and run the 10.4.4 Combo updater (not Software
Update). There's something good about that process.
It's big at 120MB:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate104
4combo.html
Are you saying all my finished projects I made in idvd 4 will not open in 6???

Can I download images from a DVD created with a newer version of iPhoto?

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
No, iPhoto 5 can't read a library or DVD created in iPhoto 6, because the structure of the libraries are much different.
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I have a similar problem having to do with the menu.
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