Save project as Disc Image?

Can I save a finished iMovie project as a disc image on an external hard drive if I don't plan to re-edit it again?
Kindly, Beth

Yes, you can. Open an iDVD project. Drag your iMovie project icon (the one with the star on it) into the edge of the iDVD menu window. Save the iDVD project as a disk image (File/Save as Disk Image). You can store the disk image on an external drive. It's a stand alone.

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Can't save project as disc image...

Hello
I am trying to save a project and am getting an error when I try to save it as a disc image. It says that there is an error that needs to be fixed before burning.
First off, I must say that I created my own menu screen (thanks to Karsten Schuler's help), so the menu is not standard. I ran thru the DVD preview and everything seemed to link fine. When looking in the components part of the menu, there doesn't seem to be anything extra or out of place, although the menu is where the error shows (red x).
There is no other evident problem with the project - it is within the time limit for a single layer disc (although in the yellow at 111 minutes) and all of the media at the bottom is checked off as OK.
What should I be looking for to fix this problem?
Thanks!

F Shippey wrote:
jen,
I just did a Knowledge Base search and found this:
iDVD 7.0 Help (iLife '08) - General specifications and requirements for iDVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6689.html
It says, in part: A project can have a maximum of 99 menus, and each menu can have up to 12 buttons (linking to submenus, slideshows, or movies). The number of buttons allowed on a menu depends on the theme you are using.
... thanks Fred for adding your expertisé...
(good, to have a studied engineer in the house..)

Creating project as Disc Image after 1 1/2 hours it appeared to be finished but there was message that there was a multiplex error. Checked and no yellow triangles, music on computer, any ideas.

Creating project as Disc Image after 1 1/2 hours it appeared to be finished but there was message that there was a multiplex error. Checked and no yellow triangles, music on computer, and all resources on computer, any ideas??

Hi
And
• free space on Start-Up hard disk ? How Much ?
• Brand and type of DVD used
• Burn Speed ?
• Did You try to first do a "Save as a DiskImage" ? If so - Did it work ?
Yours Bengt W

"broken assets" error message when saving project as disc image

I've seen this question asked before but I've been unable to find a solution that works. I am using iDvd6. After creating my project in iMovie, I shared it with iDvd. I then added a slide show and some music. Before burning to disc I "save as disc image". However when I click "file" and "save as disc image", the error says that I have a "broken asset" in my project and need to fix it before continuing.
The DVD map shows no errors. I even deleted the iDVD project completely and started it again by going back to iMovie and sharing to iDvd, but I still get the same error. I even deleted the file "com.apple.idvd.." (I forget exactly) as someone recommended and restarted iDvd, and still no luck. The irony is that I have already done 8 different projects successfully (iMovie to iDvd to image burn to disc burn), but this one has me stumped as I can't find any errors to repair. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Brett
iMac 24" OSX Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi b
1. I don't ever use "Share/Export to iDVD" from within iMovie. It renders and
destroys.
I drop my movie icon (with a Star on it) into the open iDVD theme window)
iDVD do the redering and so much better.
2. Deleting the pref file is always a good start:
iDVD
-->/Users/YourName**/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iDVD.plist
3. Free space on internal hard disk should read about 20 - 25Gb free.
4. I would start a new account / log into this / re-do the iDVD project but
this time by dropping in the movie icon.
Yours Bengt W

Can't do a save as disc image

I have iMovie '09 (8.0.6) iDVD 7.1.2 and am having a problem saving a large file (3.9gb) as a disc image. This file was made in iMovie with chapters and I "Shared to Media Browser" (I am using the .m4v file).I did a short (2 min.) test file in iDVD to make sure I could get the chapters to work and save a disc image before doing the large project. The short test project successfully saved a disc image and I was able to see it with the DVD player. When I try to save as a disc image the time remaining is 37 min (I have a main menu and 2 sub menus) and the process quits after "rendering menu video asset". It is like there is no movie file inserted. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong, or not doing right. Thanks for any help you can provide.

The file is .m4v and 71 min long.
• .m4v is also a container - Please open it with QuickTime Player and open Inspector and read in what codec it is.
• 71 min long - iDVD doesn't care about Gbs at all only time and this is Movie time AND MENU Time (as this can take 15 minutes and even more from the project) AND the various Encoding Qualities has different acceptance in time as:
iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
The menu (theme?) is called scrapbook and there is audio and no photos.
• I use an as simple Menu possibly and no animation or Audio on this e.g. Brushed Metal from old themes
Also there is over 600 GB free.
• Great - my minimum is 25Gb free space - AND it is ONLY the Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk that counts as neither Mac OS or iDVD can address any other for their temp. files.
I sat and watched it save to disc image again, and it did work;
• If You got a DiskImage that works OK then You can use Disk Util tool to burn it onto a DVD
I captured the movie from a VHS tape; I'm converting old home movies. By the end of the tape the audio is not in sync with the video.
• here You do as in so many Q: - anticipate that I/We are Magic in a way or two. You have to describe from VHS/VCR - step by step how Your material ended up in What Video-editor ?
Use of A/D-box - brand and type
Use of DVD-Recorder - brand and type AND IN WHAT Codec material is burned to DVD
Use of iMovie HD6 (very very good for VHS to DVD - near to ZERO loss in quality)
Use of iMovie08 to 11 - Not the choice of me as You lose every second line in the picture and it can not deliver full interlaced video over to iDVD any way known to me.
Use of FinalCut - and project set up as HOW ?
AND - way from this to iDVD - I NEVER use "Share to iDVD" as result will Suffer.
As You see - there are lot's of info needed to be able to be of help.
I use a A/D-Box (Canopus/Grass Valley ADVC-300) as this has two Major functions not found on cheaper solutions
• Repairs broken TimeCode
a. No Baby-sitting during Capture
b. Audio keep in Full Sync.
• Program added that enhance picture quality during Import/Capture.
I'm not sure how to fix that other than to capture in smaller segments and link them together in iMovie. I have already captured all the segments and am now in the process of creating the movie file to use in iDVD.
• Might work but way to tedious for me.
Yours Bengt W

Burning From a Disc Image Problems??

I recently purchased iDVD 5. The best feature in the new iDVD for me is the ability to save my projects to disc image which lets me keep just the disc image on my hard drives with a file size of roughly 3-4 GB. This saves me a TON of space as I was having to save all of the self contained movie files along with the DVD projects in order to burn more copies for my clients in the future.
My concern is that burning these extra copies of my projects for my clients with disk utility is not as "solid" a way to create DVDs as it would be to simply burn all the copies I may need directly from iDVD.
Is this true?
Also, I have never been able to verify any disk that I burned from a disk image using disk utility. These disks play fine on my new Sony DVD player, but I have had some complaints from clients that the disks skip and don't play perfectly.
What could be causing this problem?
If I can play these disks on my home DVD player even though my computer can't verify the burn, should I be concerned?
Is the inability to verify a problem with my burner?
Pete

Len,
Others have had the verify "problem." I NEVER verify.
Really? Then I don't need to verify? My burning process goes to this automatically, I think. How do I stop it?
BTW, I did install Tiger, no problem, installed FCE and made a very short movie, only one transition, no added audio, but burned with iDVD just great! It takes some adjusting, but I am getting the hang of it, and it hasn't been too hard to learn yet
I think I will use iMovie--> for my photos/videos to DVD projects for a while, but when I get to mostly videos and all digital photos, I think I will go back to FCE (or whenever I have lots of time to be REALLY creative)
PS. I'm SURE you ARE younger than I am! I'm like Old Toad...we're older than dirt!

Error message when Saving as Disc Image & Burning

I've been getting this error message: Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets.
When I'm either trying to Burn a DVD or Save as a Disc Image. I've read all of the previous discussions and nothing is working. I have 320 GB on my computer hard drive and 8GB of memory. I'm trying to burn a Large (960x540) movie that I created in iMovie that is 12 minutes long and 169 MB. There is no logical explanation that I can find for there to be any space issues in burning or saving this file.
Also, I found something that said to delete a preferences file, repair disk permissions and restart the computer. All of which I've also tried.
How can I get this to work?
Or is there any other way to get this photo slideshow w/music onto the DVD without loss of quality? It's not a long slideshow or a large file, so I'm baffled why the quality gets so bad when I try to burn it directly to a DVD. I followed steps I found in this community that said to publish the project to the Media Browser in the Large format and then import it into iDVD. Sounded like a good idea, but now I can't get it onto the DVD because of the error message (Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets).
Thanks for any help!

Try this basic troubleshooting fix:
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD folder.
3 - launch IDVD and try again.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
OT

6.0.3 Error During Disc Initialization for both DVD+R and Disc Image - Help

I've been a mac user for a few years now, but I just bought a new MacBook, and my first superdrive! I'm all excited to test out the new hardware along with iDVD.
I've made a rather simple DVD setup and the first time through it was encoding for about an hour and then it gave an error message which I don't recall other than it mentioned QT7. I ran updater, no new updates that I needed and I tried again, and from then on I've been getting the Error During Disc Initialization message when burning to my DVD+Rs or when I try and save as a disc image (yes, I've deleted the encoding assets). I have about 20GB free on HDD, and I'm trying to burn approx. 100min of video. I've rebooted multiple times, and I've remade my project a couple times but no dice.
Any idears?
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

What hardware do you have???
You didn't answer Sue's question about free space on
your start-up drive. You should have 20GB+ free.
What are you sending to iDVD?
Verbatim DVD-R, not DVD+R, are very reliable, unlike
TDK and Memorex.
Also look here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302925
I am running on a 2.0 ghz MacBook with a SuperDrive using Sony DVD+R. I will definitely pick up some Verbatim DVD-Rs though to see if that makes iDVD happy.
I have cleared up some room and now I have around 50GB free.
I am trying to make a DVD of two seperate .mp4s of a soccer game. I have 3 pictures and two buttons.

How to convert MP4 movie to dvd burn ready disc image?

I have a 15 minute MP4 movie (640x480, non-copy protected) that I'd like to save as a dvd burn-ready disc image. (This was a photo slideshow that a friend made into a movie on OneTrue Media. I don't want to add anything else to it, no chapters, additional files etc -- just save as a disc image that can be posted on my idisk public site for a few friends to download and burn to dvd if they wish). How can I do this the easiest way with iDVD?

Welcome to the forums.
You're almost there. Pull the video into iDVD (mp4 isn't the best format for DVD conversion but it should work) and use the Save As Disc Image command to create your image file (set preferences to Best Performance first).
John

Sony TG3 / ADVHC / Memory stick / Disc Image

Hi there!
I have a Sony TG3 (love it!) and iMovie 08 happily converts the ADVHC files. Of course once converted the files are HUGE so I am going to start deleting the originals after I've burned the movie to DVD. The thing is I want to keep the original Memory Disc files in their original format and after reading that I could simply save the Memory Stick as a Disk Image I tried this and it worked a treat!
Here's the problem; the mounted Disc Image is seen by iMovie and allows me to import just as if it were the original Memory Stick (great!) but the Disk Image is simply called 'Untitled' and I am unable to rename it. What I would like to be able to do is to have all my Memory Sticks backed up as Disc Images on a hard drive but I will of course need to be able to identify them. How do I rename the Disk Image, or is this something that I need to do when I am creating the Disk Image? If so, how do I do this?
I also realise that this entire situation could be simplified by using 4GB Memory Sticks and backing the Disc Image up to individual DVDs but I have a couple of 8GB and 16GB Memory Sticks too, and besides I think it would be neater to have everything on one drive.
Any help appreciated, and many thanks!

After much fiddling I have worked out that I was trying to save the mounted Disc Image instead of the .dmg file (silly mistake!). Turns out that I can bung all the .dmg files on a seperate drive and rename them anything I want as it's just the mounted image that calls itself 'Untitled' by default. I can live with that though.
Would you advise me to use 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo cards in my TG3 instead of 8GB or 16GB? From a back up point of view I am guessing that the 4GB is easier since it could be backed up to DVD but I welcome any thoughts from other users.
Many thanks!

Issues with saving disc images using Toast 8

I am having issues saving disc images to my portable hard drive using Toast 8.
First, I'm attempting to save Dual Layer disc images to my portable hard drive for future use. I turn compression off and select DL DVD above the burn button, and select "save as disc image" from the file menu. As that point the program seem to freeze and I get the whirly-spinning rainbow. After a few minutes a window asks me if I'm buring single or dual layer. I select dual layer. Then a box appears that says "writing ...".
After it's complete I check the portable hard drive and I've got EIGHT disc images all titled "SAMPLE DISC IMAGE TITLE.TOAST.001" .....002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008. File numbers 002-008 open in itunes, and file number 1 mounts with an error that will cause Toast to crash.
This is so weird and confusing.
When I save the image to the desktop, its saves fine. BUT, when I try to copy it to the portable hard drive it gets all the way to the end and reports an error message.
Please help. Thanks
17 inch PowerBook G4 1.67Mhz 80 GB Mac OS X (10.4.9) External HD: Lacie Portable 100gb

After several weeks of searching and an error code 1309 I discovered the issue is not with TOAST but with my external hard drive. The drive format is FAT32 which does not allow single files to be transfered in excess of 4gb. I was attempting to create disc images of dual layered dvd's which can be up to 8 gb. Since the drive was incapable of accepting a file that size it created seperate files that made up the size of the original file.
Example: 7.8gb file transfered to FAT32 external LACIE drive. Lacie creates 8 files: 7 are 1gb, 1 is .8gb.
There is probably a program that could put these files back together but I've already experienced too great of an ordeal.
Unless the user needs the external drive for use on a PC & MAC there is not a reason to have the format of the drive set to FAT32.
I will be using Disk Utility to reformat the drive to "HFS+" in hopes to solve this problem.
17 inch PowerBook G4 1.67Mhz 80 GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Can't update project-menus become disabled after disc image save

I hope someone can help me understand if this is a bug or something I am doing wrong. I can never update a iDVD project with a new movie file, or change anything to the movie file (make it loop or stop looping). I have to create a new iDVD project anytime I want to make a change at all. If I change anything, once I save as disc image, the menu button becomes disabled and no longer works, even though the preview in the project window is fine.
I tried to change the file to a looping movie in the map view, saved the disc image, menu became disabled.
I am getting really frustrated because everytime I have to make a change I am starting all over creating a project from scratch yet again.
Is this a bug?
Thanks for input,
Cheryl

So here's the deal and I have done some surfing around these boards and have run across others that are encountering this same issue.
I have been able to, in the past, create a menu which plays a slideshow which looped (from iMovie or not). Suddenly, I can no longer create a looping slideshow AT ALL in iDVD.
I ran a test this morning where I deleted my .plist, restarted, then shared a .dv file from iMovieHD to iDVD6, created a simple menu with a "PLAY" button, saved as disc image, loaded up on my computer and it worked fine.
THEN, I did the whole sequence of events again as above, but this time, set the movie to "LOOP" in the map view - WHAM the menu "PLAY" button no longer works when I load it on my computer. The menu comes up, as it should, but the PLAY button doesn't start the movie.
I am now thinking this is a corruption in the software and I need to reinstall, why else would a feature suddenly STOP working???
Thanks for any advice.

Save As Disc Image

I made a movie using iMovie5 and was unable to burn possibly there was a software glitch with iDVD5.
So I bought iLife6 and uploaded iMovie6 and iDVD6 only.
My movie's still on the hard drive and I'd like to proceed with iDVD6. I've read through several postings on these boards and know that I should Save As Disc Image before attempting a burn.
Three questions:
1. When I open iDVD6 one of the themes appears with an annoying ragtime music loop. Maybe I'll use the themes in the future, but right now I'd like to dispense with them. How can I turn the themes and the music loop off?
2. Using iDVD6 I created a new project for my existing movie. I clicked the Media button and noticed that my movie project is visible in the lower pane under Movies. That is as I expected. I played the project and all appears well. I detected no hitches. I then dragged and dropped the project into the Map pane, that is, into a box that has these words "Drag content here to automatically play when the disc is inserted." Question: Am I taking the right steps?
3. I then clicked iDVD>File>Save As Disc Image and got a drop down box saying "There were warnings during content validation. It is recommended to fix these problems before burning the project." What does that mean in plain English? There were no further indications as to the nature of the problems, so I don't know where they're located or what to fix. How do I proceed?
using the
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

1. Select an Old Theme that doesn't have music and animation.
2. Yes. If you want it to loop endlessly, click on that file, go to Advanced/Loop.
3. You probably selected a theme with drop zones that you haven't filled. An image should encode OK if that's the case. It did for me when I didn't want to fill those DZs.
iDVD 6 Getting Started
Apple's iMovie Learning Site
Apple's iDVD Learning Site
General Learning Center
Ken Stone: Authoring in iDVD 6
My favorite, by far:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
You can download Chapter four: Camcorder Meets Mac.
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual

Save an unencoded iDVD disc image to encode/burn with Toast?

Hi:
I'm geting jittery image on playback (only in certain scenes) when I use iDVD to encode my disc. If I use Toast to encode and burn, there's no problem, using the same blanks and burner. I saw a post here from someone who said you can save a disc image from iDVD, but then have Toast encode it and burn it; in the help files it always says iDVD encodes its disc images. Any ideas, or any other suggestions as to the jittery playback on a few scenes?

It could be the DVD media you're using or player, etc. If you create a disk image and use DVD Player software to view it, that should be pretty much what to expect on DVD-R playing in a good quality DVD player.
Read Beverly's comments here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b68f78
File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Disk Utility to burn the DVD.
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (not the .img, the one below) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. Your SuperDrive tray will open. Insert a recordable DVD. (DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and Tiger.
b Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD 5 project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

IDVD unexpectedly quits after clicking "Save as Disc Image"

I want to author and burn a DVD, but my iBook doesn't have a DVD-burner.
Unfortunately iDVD 5 (or 5.0.1 build 26) quits unexpectedly after I click "Save as Disc Image". The system offers me to send a report to Apple which I have done a dozen of times.
The error report looks like this: http://lepo.it.da.ut.ee/~aloola/idvdunexpectedlyquits2.html
My iBook came with Panther and iDVD installed. Since I did not need it initially I deleted it to save disk space. A few weeks ago I upgraded to Tiger. A few days ago I needed to author a DVD. I reinstalled iMovie and iDVD from my Panther install discs (the upgrade to Tiger DVD does not contain them). iMovie seems to work just fine. I captured the video (about 23minutes) from camera and after adding chapter marks launched an iDVD project from iMovie. The authoring worked fine as well. Up to the point where I need to save my dvdproject as disc image. iDVD just quits.
So I tried reinstalling it, changing preferences, creating a project with a small .mov file (25MB), repairing permissions, using using the "'Pfurz' and 'Hurz'" files etc. Nothing seems to make it work. I have 15GB of free space on my hard drive and it is very hard for me to free some more. Anyway space shouldn't be an issue, if I try to save a dvdproject that only contains a short (2:30) movie trailer. There should be plenty of room for rendering and saving this small disc image.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice what to try next. I am out of ideas and frustrated about having bought a program with my iBook, that is virtually useless without this "Save as Disc Image" feature working.
Is there a direct way to contact Apple support by email to notify them about this issue and receive official feedback whether it will be repaired or if my computer perhaps need some "repairing"?

aloola,
Welcome to the iDVD forum!
after adding chapter marks
Make sure your chapter markers conform to these rules:
http://dvd.kentidwell.com/?page_id=53
changing preferences....repairing permissions
I know you've done it before, but it's a good idea to delete the iDVD plist file anytime iDVD unexpectedly quits, so do it again.
15GB of free space
In your case (only 23 minutes of movie) I'd have to agree that 15GB should be enough. But do everything you can to get more space anyway.
Sometimes movies themselves have some glitch in them that is causing iDVD to crash. Make another short dummy iMovie (just use some Ken Burns clips) and see if you can "Save as Disk Image" Also check to make sure there isn't "extra" audio that extends beyond the end of the video in iMovie, as this has been known to cause problems.
Try creating a new user and see if that user can "Save as Disk Image"
Is there a direct way to contact Apple support by email
No you call Applecare (by phone) if your Mac is still eligible.
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html
John B.

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