Quick dvd

I imported my DV footage and edited my project.
Now how do I burn it to a DVD? My previous version of iMovie allowed you to export the
project to iDVD. How do you make a dvd from you imovie project in imovie09?

Is it possible to use iMovie 09 to directly save a file to a DVD?... or do you have to use iDVD?
This depends on how you plan to play them. As Frozen Tundra indicated, you must use iDVD to "author" a DVD which is to be played on a commercial home DVD player. You can also export a file to your hard drive and then burn that files as a "data" DVD which will only play on your computer. If you go this route then you also have to decide whether the video is to play back directly from the DVD or whether the movie will be moved from the DVD to the hard drive for playback. (I.e., the file must be encoded differently for playback directly from the "data" DVD.)

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Quick DVD Option won't work?

Hello,
I went into my iDVD 08 and was going to do the quick DVD option, you know, where you just record direct onto a DVD.
Well when I clicked on the button in the opening screen something odd happens...
The window closes and then if you watch the icon in the dashboard it sorta flashes and then shuts down. Not so much a miserable problem but still one that I would like to fix and handle.
So I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem and if so what can one do?
Thanks

This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

Quick DVD Dimensions Question

I burned a test DVD of my movie exporting to compressor then importing into DVD Studio.
I am aware that a DVD played on flat screen TV is going to cut off about 10-20% of the movie around the borders, hence the title safe overlays when editing. Unfortunately when I filmed the movie I did not account for this leaving space at the borders when framing the shots.
The movie is 16:9.
I would like like the entire frame to be visable on a flatscreen TV. I am wondering how to resolve this.
I am considering using some type of feather box or adding black borders. But I don't want to crop out any of the image.
The other option I am considering is scaling the image down in FCP to fit right inside the title safe zone. But I am skeptical about doing it this way as well. Because I wonder if every flat screen TV is different and each make of TV cuts off a different amount of the image (as opposed to every TV cutting off exactly the same percentage of the image). In that case, if I scale it down into the title safe region, it would fit just right on some flat screens, while others it might be slightly cropped, and on others it would have an ugly black line around the borders.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanx.

In Compressor select your DVD encoding preset and in the Inspector open the Geometry window.
At the bottom is a Padding control with parameters for left, right, top and bottom.
You will have to use a bit of trial and error to get the effect you want. The numbers you enter in the boxes are pixels. Basically you are adding black pixels to the 4 sides of the frame.

"Quickie" DVD Help

I just started using Final Cut Studio for filmmaking, used to use Premiere etc. Now, I just finished rendering out a video track and a dolby surround track adding up to about 1.4 gigs and I am using standard 4 and half gig or so disks. I have not had time to learn DVD Studio Pro so I am using a template for a last minute kind of thing. I need someone to run me through:
I need to do 2 things:
-Setting a button to video to be synced with the seperate audio track as well (m2v from compressor). It would also be nice to know how to set preset transitions between videos.
-Intro video that plays when you pop the disk in.
That's it. I'm doing this iDVD style because of the time restraint. Answer here or contact me on AIM at ' CPOStudios ' .

Have a look at First Play - a "Bare Bones" DVD by Jeff Warmouth
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/first_playwarmouth.html
When you have more time, make sure you work through the tutorial.

Quick DVD burning question

If I create a DVD folder in PE, can I simply burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder to a data DVD and have it play in any DVD player that supports DVD-R? Do I need a blank AUDIO_TS folder?
This works fine with my DVD player, but I suspect it supports more "standards" than some older players.
Paul

Yes, I have Nero 6. I tried that..... I told it to burn a DVD compilation with the files from the VIDEO_TS folder that PE made. It burned the first one just fine. And then proceeded to burn four coasters. I have no idea why... I didn't even exit the program, just told it to burn more copies. I'm trying again at a lower speed... the burner supports 16X and burns the VIDEO_TS folder as-is to a data DVD just fine at 16X but I'm running at 12X to see what happens.
It is also possible I was trying to burn to the DVD imatge recorder, whatever that is. I just noticed that it shows up as a device and might be the default. Is it perhaps an ISO builder? If so, it was definitely burning to the DVD... the disk was spinning and the LED was accessing. But each time it stopped at about the 75% point with a burn error.
I tell ya, I can fix the OS if it breaks, I can do dual and triple boot, I can work in Linux, I can edit and burn audio. But PC video has me climbing the walls. Oh for the days when video was..... video. A little dot flying across a phosphor screen. And NTSC was the only way to go.
Well, lo and behold.... as I typed this, it completed the burn at 12X. Let's see if it can make a couple more copies.
OK, calm down, Paul.... not a PE problem as far as I can tell. Just ranting.... The DVD really does look good. I am quite pleased, even if it was frustrating getting here. maybe the next one will be heaps easier.
Paul

Quick dvd question

Somebody wants me to make a dvd with a project where you can play the 3 minute video or go to a chapter where you can play it and have it loop is that possible to have the same on one dvd or do you have to have a looping dvd and then the project just on another dvd if you understand what I am saying.
thanks

Hi:
You can do it in the same DVD without duplicating the track, using Stories. Read this Stories Tutorial (from www.kenstone.net).
You can use the original track setting the End Jump to the Menu, and one Story based in the same track but set the End Jump to itself, then it will loop.
You can build your Mani Menu with 2 buttons: one for the single play and another for the looped Story.
Remember setting the MEnu Button feature for your disc to the Main Menu. Then to escape from the loop you can press the Menu button of the remote control.
You'll find several threads with a similar subject in the DVDSP fprum.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Quick dvd burn

I just bought iLife '08 and iMovie works incredibly with my hd camcorder. The only problem is to burn a playable dvd of the clips i took, i first have to import it into idvd. Then, I have to wait two hours for it to process the menus and everything. It only takes 20 minutes to actually burn it. Is there a way to burn a disc without any main menus? Just the footage.

that works well, but it still takes several hours to create the disc. after the first disc is burned, it only takes around 10 minutes to burn the second one. this is why i think that the menus are slowing the process down because idvd has to process the menus before they are burned the first time.
First disc takes hours because your movie has to be converted to MPEG2/PCM compression format. Rendering menus only requires a fraction of the time your movie takes to convert. Once the conversion is complete, the same data is used for additional burns without further conversions. That is why additional burns are so much faster.

Simple quick dvd burn from prem?!?

Ive jst upgraded form cs3 to cs5. Im trying to burn a simple dvd directly from my timeline without a menu. Cs3 use to be so easy and did everthing with a click of a button.
Now in Cs5 seems to open encore and leave me there having no idea what to do.
I jst want to burn directly WITHOUT any menus soo its a direct play on my dvd player.
Whats the simplest way to do this????

k, i must be doing somthing wrong.
- In project window ive deleted the timeline.
- Then i drag a "blank menu" into the flow chart?
- I then tried holding down ALT and selecting the "sequence" from the project window and drag into the blank menun in flowchart. It doesnt work. I jst get Are u sure its ALT?

Homemade DVD is Copyrighted!?! HORRIBLE REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT!!!

To recap the agony which has consumed my life for the last four months, using iMovie 3.0.3 in my Macintosh G4, with extreme effort I assembled some titles and outtakes for a movie otherwise to be entirely dubbed directly from my Sony 8mm camcorder to VHS tape. The reason being, such gallons of blood, toil, sweat, and tears were expended for the relatively short amount of footage edited in iMovie under NO CONDITION was I going to try to edit ANYTHING CLOSE to the entire four hours, at least not in iMovie 3.0.3. By the time I finished, I had run into so many bugs in iMovie 3.0.3 I resolved to buy the latest version of iMovie before I'm ready to edit anything again.
The footage from my video camera was transferred to iMovie using a Canopus ADVC 110 converter, edited in iMovie, then burned to DVD using Toast 7 Titanium version 7.0.2 and a LaCie 16x4x16x Double Layer FireWire burner. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10311
So far, so good, I had a DVD, but then I learned the player I had would play a DVD OR record a VHS tape but NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! Refusing to be daunted, I used some jacks to connect the DVD player to a VCR and played the DVD while recording on the VCR. This worked fine for the opening and center titles since they were in black-and-white, but when I got to the color sequences, starting with the bows, the VCR would record them ONLY in black-and-white!
So I returned the DVD player, which was quite new, and used the money to buy this thing--a Zenith VCR/DVD burner at Radio Shack-- http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104618&cp=2032...
to solve my problem.
It worked BEAUTIFULLY--or so it seemed. I finished recording the tape, in color, and my friend was able to run off any number of VHS tapes from it. Then he put my original VHS tapes into his Sony VCR/DVD RDR-VX 500 to make the DVDs. All worked well--UNTIL IT HIT THE BOWS, then the whole thing STOPPED DEAD! It said it was copyrighted material and could not be duplicated! This, from a homemade DVD I BURNED MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My friend is savvy enough (heck, even I am that savvy) to know once the VHS tape is copied that should take care of any of that-type stuff. So he put in one of the VHS copies he had made of the tape to try to continue the DVD burning process and it did THE SAME THING AT THE SAME PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's more, if that DVD had been copyrighted, the Zenith should never have let me dub it to tape in the first place--it ought to know better! As soon as he called me with this news, I ran straight to the Zenith, put a blank VHS tape in, put a copy-protected DVD in, pressed "Dubbing," and sure enough, a message came right up, "Protected material is uncopyable" or the like.
Still, I can't help but suspect the Zenith as having had a hand in the nefarious business, as everything (INCLUDING the titles taken off the SAME DVD by way of the VCR) acted FINE up until the part done on the Zenith! I also have to suspect Toast, the LaCie, or both may be involved, as I dubbed ALL the camcorder material on that second tape on the Zenith and it worked fine.
I THINK THEY'RE ALL CONSPIRING AGAINST ME TO AT LAST DEPRIVE ME OF MY FEW REMAINING SHREDS OF SANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So here we are: my friend can dub any number of VHS tapes, but, EVEN THE COPIES have this "whatever-it-is" bug that was put on at some point either in the DVD-making process or in the dubbing process on the Zenith though I don't see how. Meaning, presumably, at least if other peoples' equipment acts like my friend's, even years in the future when people try to transfer their VHS tapes to DVD THEY WILL STOP BURNING IN THE SAME PLACE! Right at the bows. And might or might not tape in the sequences after that, EXCEPT, OF COURSE, those I edited in iMovie, ON WHICH I EXPENDED THE MOST HEARTBREAKING LABOR!
What's more, there are reasons we WANT DVD copies NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, of course I could just stick the VHS tape into the Zenith and dub a quickie DVD on the attached DVD burner, but it would of course copy the bug. The only other solution I have is for my friend to give me back the second tape, and me to run it back into iMovie starting at the problem part using the Canopus. This will mean purchasing the iMovie update right away, before I was planning to, as I REFUSE to use iMovie 3.0.3 EVER again. Now, since it's all edited already, this shouldn't mess up anything that's on the tape. My questions (which you knew I was getting to) are:
1. HOW CAN THIS HAVE HAPPENED?????????? WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT ITS HAPPENING EVERY TIME I WANT TO MAKE A DVD??????????????????
2. If I run the material from the VHS tape back to iMovie using the Canopus, will the Canopus "unencode" the problem area sufficiently that I can run the sequence back out through the Canopus onto another VHS tape so my friend can copy the movie onto DVD from that tape?
3. How can I find whatever the problem was in burning my DVD and fix it before I EVER burn another DVD? Was it in Toast, the LaCie burner, or some perversion specially wrought by the Zenith? Is there any possible way the problem could have been in iMovie 3.0.3 or did it happen after the footage left iMovie?
4. Am I really cursed and are all these machines really conspiring against me?

Someone suggested the problem is CPRM protection put on at some point in processing the DVD portion, which I've concluded it must be. My friend tried dubbing again, and his Sony dubs everything taken off the camcorder, then stops dead again at the next section taken off the DVD. That eliminates all other offered explanations, such as extraneous noise, out of synch, etc.
But where was the CPRM protection put on? When the disk was burned, meaning I should jump on LaCie, the makers of the DVD burner, and Toast, the makers of the DVD authoring program? Or when the material was transferred from DVD to VHS, meaning I should jump more heavily on Zenith? It's my inclination to blame Zenith but don't want to jump on the wrong ones.
In a way I'm glad thousands are in the same boat, as manufacturers in the future will have to deal with it!
My plan for fixing THIS SITUATION, UNLESS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS A LOT MORE THAN ME SAYS DON'T EVEN TRY IT, IT WON'T WORK, is to take the original VHS tape (which my friend delivered to me), run it into the computer using the Canopus, use a program (Vidi, if it will work, iMovie, if not) to run it out through the Canopus, and record it to VHS tape. My friend has his doubts, worrying that the Canopus may not, in converting the material, filter out the CRPM protection. Does anyone know if it will, or won't?
IF IT WON'T, EXTREMELY HEAVY, AGONIZED SIGH, that means putting everything into iMovie--to get the most first-generation version possible, it would mean I'd have to convert everything already dubbed from half a dozen 8mm camcorder tapes into iMovie using the Canopus, then do all the editing already done on the VCR all over again in iMovie to make it into one continuous movie, then take it out through the Canopus to VHS. In this case, none of the material would have come in contact with the Zenith at any point, so my friend's Sony should not have a problem with it, BUT I SURE HOPE THE OTHER IDEA WORKS AND IT DOESN'T COME TO THIS!
I'll also be running an experiment on the Zenith involving transferring material shot on a friend's newfangled digital camcorder, which is not even capable of producing a VHS tape but she gave me a DVD done on her computer, to VHS tape. Then I'll see if the Zenith will dub the entire tape (my portion, dubbed from my camera to VHS, and hers, dubbed from her DVD) to another DVD, or whether it pulls the same trick as the Sony.

DVD menu in Adobe Premiere

Any one know how to make DVD menu in Adobe Premiere? Only a simple DVD menu is enought. Really appriciate your help. Thanks

I used the CS2 quick DVD for review projects. But it is easy to accomplish this in CS3 and even easier in CS4 and CS5 (where you have dynamic link to Encore).
From Premiere CS4 with your desired sequence active, pick Fiile -> Adobe Dynamic Link -> Send to Encore.
This will open that sequence as a timeline in Encore and will make it first play. The simplest version is to set the end action of the timeline to "stop," set the transcode (probably the default) to automatic, and it will create a DVD with no menu that plays your movie.
If you want to add a simple menu, take a main (not a submenu) from the library and double click it. Remove all but one of the buttons. Link the button to your timeline, right click on the menu and make it "first play," and make the end action of your timeline "return to last menu."
Yes, it can become complicated very quickly, but simple menus should not be too difficult.

Making a DVD from

I am making a DVD from final cut pro, it is about 1 hour 50 minutes. I am using idvd are there any suggestions on how or/if to compress this to make it fit on idvd. I thought I would try posting here first instead of the idvd board.
thanks!

iDVD has a limited number of (commonly used) file formats it can deal with, and uses its own DVD video encoder to format and build the DVD. The iDVD help system describes the kinds of files it can accept.
You would use Compressor to encode the separate video and Dolby surround audio files for DVD Studio Pro projects, and iDVD does not accept those file types. If you need more control over your encoding, you should use FCP and Compressor with DVDSP.
The iDVD forums will have more on that topic.
That being said, I love using iDVD because of it's ease and simplicity. I use it to make quick DVDs of my Final Cut Pro projects. Just feed iDVD the right files and it works beautifully.
Cheers

Some production notes on making a DVD-9

I've had more problems than usual in making one of my usual DVD-9 projects and thought I'd document them (and my solutions/workarounds) in case they come in handy for someone else.
* I usually do a DVD-9 of four videos, each of which are approximately 58 min 30 sec long (plus or minus 10 seconds). Each video has about 40 chapter stops. The DVDs also usually contain many many many menus, including a few motion menus.
* This time we're trying to do a quickie DVD-9. The four videos have significantly different runtimes (more on that below), there are only 6-8 chapter stops per video, and I only have 6 menus (none of which are motion menus).
* I captured all videos as uncompressed SD via an Aurora Pipe Pro and compressed with Compressor 2 (due to a variety of reasons), average bitrate of 4.4Mbps, max of 7.5, 2 pass VBR best, with best motion estimation. Of course encoding audio to AC3.
* First problem: tried to build/format a test to a double-layer DVD+R, and I got the dreaded "couldn't find a valid break point" message.
Note that NORMALLY I never see this message, as I have a lot of menus (including motion) and four videos of almost the same size. Therefore, Layer 0 gets the menus + 2 videos, Layer 1 gets the other two videos, Layer 0 > Layer 1, DVDSP does not have to place a break point within a video, everyone's happy.
This time, with the videos being different sizes and not a lot of menu space, I had to shuffle their order around in order to get Layer 0 > Layer 1 and not require a break point in video. (Since I'm in DVDSP4, I did it in the VTS view of the Outline palette)
* Once I burned the DL DVD+R, I tried to play it on an older Samsung player. It refused to play the first video on Layer 1, and hung at a couple of high-bitrate areas. A newer Panasonic player worked just fine. Moral: DL compatibility is spotty: don't be surprised if things don't work.
* I then noticed that one of the few high-motion sections of some of my videos (camera motion on top of crossfades) were encoding horribly. Lots of picture breakup (macroblocking). I re-encoded out of FCP4 after placing compression markers liberally at the beginning of the fades. No difference.
The fix (which I think I recall hearing about here) was to change Motion Estimation from Best to Better. I encoded just the 3 minutes of the video that contains this section, and it encoded without macroblocking. The test will be if re-encoding the entire hour of video with Better motion estimation still allows that section to appear properly. If not, I'll encode each hour into three parts: stuff before the high motion, high motion (with whatever settings work), stuff after the high motion. Then I'll append them in DVDSP or MPEG Append.
Anyhow, hope that helps.

Did you get a chance to try the encoding in BitVice (or anything else) to test whether it is a Compressor issue or a precision issue?
Yes, that fell under my "due to a variety of reasons" category. Turns out that, since I upgraded to the latest FCP Studio, I can no longer export movies that use the Aurora 10-bit Uncompressed codec that the Pipe uses to capture. The second I try FCP crashes. So I can't export it to use it with BitVice. Actually, I could use Compressor to transcode to Apple's 10-bit uncompressed, then use that in BitVice, so maybe I'll try that.

FCE or DVD recorder?

This may not exactly be a FCE only question but I get great help from you all in here and I am learning the ropes on FCE and transferring vhs to DVD.
My question is this.
If I want to make an exact replica of a vhs tape, am I better off just using a vhs/DVD recorder combo and just copying the vhs directly to DVD? Or is there a benefit to using FCE?
I have begun the process of transferring old VHS tapes to DVD and am starting to wonder if the lengthy process of using FCE to capture the video then use TOAST to burn the DVD is worth it. I also wonder if the video quality would be better/same or worse if I just used the DVD recorder?
I don't know enough about capturing and transferring analogue video into DV to know whether or not it loses any image quality in the process, that is why I'm wondering about using the DVD recorder option vs. FCE.
Again, I realize this isn't FCE specific so I hope I don't offend anyone by placing this question in here but I appreciate any help/advice you have to offer.
Thanks,
Ehren

OK, the quality going from the tape player to DVD was as good as could be expected. I doubt anyone could tell the difference viewing the DVD vs. the original footage.
BUT -
If you are thinking that at some time you are going to want to edit this material, *than do not, repeat, do not convert it to DVD first. You are opening up a giant bag of hurt to do so.* Continue on with the method you are currently using to ingest the footage to FCE, and save those ingested files on an external drive to edit later. Make a copy of your external drive so in case something happens to the first external, you have a backup copy.
Going to DVD and then attempting to reconvert the video from the DVD is a time consuming and video degrading process - if you intend to edit, I repeat, do not go to DVD first. When you go to DVD, you are converting the video to an MPEG format, and MPEG is for delivery, not editing. The fundamental structure of the video gets changed, and when you try to back the other way - from DVD to a format you can edit in FCE, you will see the effect of the conversion.
Your other option is to do both methods - dub the tapes to a DVD recorder to make quick DVD copies, then at your leisure ingest your tapes into FCE.
I did not rip the footage to make the duplicate DVDs, I just let Toast make a disc image and then make copies from the disc image to other DVDs. The DVD was never converted, it was just copied.
Hope this helps -
MtD

Simple Workflow captured video to DVD

Hello
I search the forum but didn't find what I needed. I have Studio 2. I also have Tom Wolsky's DVD's from COD as well as the training DVD that came with studio. All this is great but a bit to involved for what I wanted to do now.
I got a new Black Magic video recorder and captured a video of a VHS tape I had. (Not copyrighted or protected). It's a movie I created long ago
I got the video onto FCP timeline and marked my in/out points.
Now I need to add chapter markers, encode and put onto a DVD.
1) Do I make my chapter markers in FCP by just using the regular marker (M)?
2) Export from FCP as self contained QT movie?
3) Bring into Compressor and encode (it's just a 90 min movie)
4) Bring into DVD Studio Pro and create the menu, chapter links and burn the DVD?
Right now I just want to learn how to do a quick DVD with Chapters.
Can someone help please.
Thanks
Allen
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Okay Chapter markers set inside the Marker dialog box.
Into compressor then into DVD Studio Pro.
Thanks

Motion file poor quality in DVD Studio Pro

I'm using a Motion file for my DVD menu. I have double checked to ensure that all of the dimensions are correct, however the quality of the motion file is incredibly poor in DVD studio pro. Is there something that I am missing?

Don't trust the viewer in DVDSP. It's by no means accurate. Plus, since you're adding a Motion project to the DVDSP project, the Motion file needs to be converted to MPEG2 so that it'll play on a DVD. You could be either seeing a preview of a file that's not been converted yet, or else the encoding settings in DVDSP could be set too low.
My recommendation would be to burn a quick DVD and view in on a TV for quality.
Andy

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