Question re iDVD

I've created animated titles in Livetype for an iMovie project. Everything looks good in iMovie, but when I try to add the movie into an iDVD project, the whole slideshow goes weird - green blurs, frames upside down and no titles whatsoever. I'm a newbie here and would love to get some guidance. I sincerely hope I am just doing something wrong with the titles in Livetype. I have FCE, but am reluctant to use it since the slideshow involves 250 stills and I really don't want to apply Ken Burns to every single one individually.
Help, please?
TIA,
Dana

danalicious wrote:
Okay - so maybe this is a stupid question, but wouldn't the effect be the same on every still? What do I do if I want to alter the path, say from left to right instead of right to left?
It's not a stupid question at all but it is a bit, umm, lazy. All this stuff is in the online help system. Just search for "Ken."
The sophistication of these moves is limited because the motion effect is obviously canned, totally random, heartlessly applied by the computer. Getting in and tweaking the start and stop positions and zoom settings is tedious in the iApps. It's much more precise but much more tedious in FCE or FCP.
You can animate your stills in LiveType but that's the worst choice.
bogiesan

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1. What kind of camcorders are supported? miniDV only? Or can I use DVD based cameras (DVD-R, DVD-RAM) and even Hard Disk based ones (seems like the industry is moving towards HDD based cameras as we can see on the latest high definition 1080i cameras from Sony - HDD and DVD only, no miniDV anymore). Is there a list of supported cameras somewhere on the Apple website?
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4. If I export the my iDVD project, can I export in .ISO format so I can burn on any machine, Mac or PC? Or it exports as .DMG only?
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Thanks for the quick reply Sue.
The main thing is I do not intend to use iMovie at all. All I want to use is iDVD as I will not be editing anything. I just want to copy whatever files are on the camera (could be in MPEG format) and use them as source files for an iDVD project. Again, there is no editing at all on my case.
From what I understand iMovie is for editing and that is something I do not do at all.
And for iDVD, it does not support USB2.0 burners at all? Am I stuck to firewire?
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Hi Claudio:
1. iMovie was made to work with miniDV cameras. It is
possible but not good to convert files form a DVD
camera or a Harddrive camera to iMovie. There is a
list that is outdated from Apple. Read this from Dan Slagle. It also contains the
link to the Apple Camera list.
2. To import your MPEG or DVD files to imovie, read
this
3.It does support external burners via firewire. Youo
acn look here and decide which
one for yourself.
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file to be burned on the PC or the Mac. I have never
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Greetings:
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1) I think this is normal. Just choose OK and import.
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DON'T put a CM within 2 secs of a transition
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506
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I notice the video and menu quality on my burned DVD is VASTLY inferior to video and menu quality when viewing menus and content in the iDVD program while building the presentation.
Having encoded at "Professional Quality" to a single layer DVD which didn't look so good, a number of posts in this forum suggested that "Best Performance" actually renders the best video quality.
I'm using high-quality media from Verbatim so that's not a problem. The DVD's burn fine.
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Hi
No iDVD has a fixed quality - as old time TVs
• PAL 625 lines (720x576)
• NTSC 520 lines (720x480)
so Your Mac screen are way higher resolution.
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*DVD bad quality*
copy of an answer on a similar question - may be of help
the iMovie 08 & 09 don't apply
There are two problems in this question.
• iDVD
• iMovie'08 or 09
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SD-TV
EU - PAL system = 625 lines analog display (no pixles) 25fps
US - NTSC system = 520 lines and 29.97 fps
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first then start over with the rest - 25fps = 50 frames of interlaced video
less flickering.
iMovie'08 and 09 has destroyed this by deleting every second line
Result a resolution of
PAL 312 lines
NTSC 260 lines
So photos displayed this way will look crappy.
Improvment
Use iMovie HD 6 or FinalCut Express or Pro
Else only way I know of to get "full" quality is by using other tools all together.
Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro (incl BR-component) and here the included FotoMagico™ for SlideShows.
Toast™ also can burn Blue-Ray - even on standard DVD (but much less eg 20 min movie)
These BR-DVDs Can only be playbacked on a Blue-Ray Player (eg PlayStation 3)
But they look super.
A more specific part reg. FinalCut
I do in FC-Express or Pro
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Not selfcontained (not important but saves time and spaces)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (Important)
I use
• Verbatim DVD-R disks
• Burn at a reduced speed x1 or x4 recommended by many)
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal boot hard disk for 4x3 SD video
and my guess is that I would secure 5 - 6 times more for 16x9 HD
(Still no version of iDVD can do HD)
Yours Bengt W

Quality loss in iDVD

Hi there
I've made a slideshow in FCE 3.5.1 (made it in FCE to have full control over the length of each photo to time with the music)
The photos started out as really big jpegs - 3016x5041, but I didn't want to make smaller versions in case I wanted to zoom in on any.
When I export a Quicktime the quality looks perfect on screen - but it's big, about 15 gig.
I made the movie in 1080i 50, and exported a reference movie to import into iDVD.
Unfortunately the final DVD is terrible quality on screen.
Does anyone know where my problem is stemming from? Is the slideshow too big or have I just got the settings wrong?
I have iDVD 6.0.4.
Thanks in advance
Helen

Hi
copy of an answer on a similar question - may be of help
the iMovie 08 & 09 don't apply
*There are two problems in this question.*
• iDVD
• iMovie'08 or 09
iDVD - can only handle Standard definition TV quality - NO version can handle HD !
SD-TV
EU - PAL system = 625 lines analog display (no pixles) 25fps
US - NTSC system = 520 lines and 29.97 fps
That's the best iDVD can do.
iMovie up to version HD 6 - could handle interlaced video (displaying every second line
first then start over with the rest - 25fps = 50 frames of interlaced video
less flickering.
iMovie'08 and 09 has destroyed this by deleting every second line
Result a resolution of
PAL 312 lines
NTSC 260 lines
So photos displayed this way will look crappy.
Improvment
Use iMovie HD 6 or FinalCut Express or Pro
Else only way I know of to get "full" quality is by using other tools all together.
Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro (incl BR-component) and here the included FotoMagico™ for SlideShows.
Toast™ also can burn Blue-Ray - even on standard DVD (but much less eg 20 min movie)
These BR-DVDs Can only be playbacked on a Blue-Ray Player (eg PlayStation 3)
But they look super.
A more specific part reg. FinalCut
I do in FC-Express or Pro
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Not selfcontained (not important but saves time and spaces)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (Important)
I use
• Verbatim DVD-R disks
• Burn at a reduced speed x1 or x4 recommended by many)
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal boot hard disk for 4x3 SD video
and my guess is that I would secure 5 - 6 times more for 16x9 HD
(Still no version of iDVD can do HD)
Yours Bengt W

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