Saving photos to DVD ROM with iMovie

If I create a slide show with iDVD, I can set up an option (in preferences) to "always save slide show photos to DVD ROM". With this option selected, when I write a DVD, the photos are writen to a directory along with creation of VIDEO_TS files etc.
I like this option, since it gives me a way of storing the JPEG along with the same slide Show DVD. So at a later date if I want a single JPEG, I can get it from the same DVD as the slide show.
I want to use iMovie to create a slide show, since I want to put animated titles, various transitions between slides, and Ken Burns effect etc. But if I create an iMovie, is there a way to store the JPEG to the same DVD in a directory? I do not see any option, I am willing to take the iMovie to iDVD to get it done, even with this, I do not know how to save the JPEG to the same DVD-ROM.
Can some one help me with this.
Thanks,

there's no single-click option, but you have an option...
in iPhoto, create an album with your pics (we need that later in iM...)
"export"/share this album to a new folder on your harddrive (don't forget where...)
create your iM project, using that album
when finished, create new iDVD project, use your iM project...
when finished, in "expert" (<< english nomenclatura? the menu option between Project and Windows...) you can choose "dvd rom content"
in that dialog, choose your exported folder with pics to add it as pic.files ...
done.

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RE: Adding original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM option.

I want to be able to burn/save a slideshow .TS file or burn a slideshow DVD using iDVD and I want to be able to add original slideshow photos to the DVD-ROM using iDVD's "always add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM". I also want to use Ken Burns pan/zoom effects which iDVD doesn't have as an option. I have been able to makeup my slideshow in iPhoto with Ken Burn effects and then send it to iDVD and retain the Ken Burn effects. However, when I do that, then I lose the ability of using iDVD's "always add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM" option. Is there anyway to do/have both options retained in iDVD, Ken Burns effects and always add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM using iDVD? If not, does any know if it is possible to do this using DVD Studio Pro?
THANKS!
G5 Power Mac Dual Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2.5GB Ram
G5 Power Mac Dual Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2.5GB Ram

then I lose the ability of using iDVD's "always
add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM"
option.
Yes but all you lose is the "automatic/always" part,
you can add them yourself to the DVD ROM portion.
Under the "Advanced" menu in iDVD, you will see "Edit
DVD ROM Contents." Then create a new folder in the
window that opens, and you can drag photos from
albums (but not slideshows) into the DVD ROM
portion.
John B.
Wow, who knew?...Well, I guess you did. I just tried it out and it works GREAT...a million thanks...may you win the Loto Jackpot today! THANKS AGAIN, have a great New Year...you made mine! Larry.

Always add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM

The option "Always add original slideshow photos to DVD-ROM" appears in preferences. What does it do? I should know but cannot find it in the help pages.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164971
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165003
This is a good place to find out "stuff": http://www.apple.com/support/idvd/

Photo DVD: Saving images to DVD-ROM not working

When creating a photo slide show In iDVD, there is an option to save the photos to the DVD-ROM portion of the disc so that viewers can download them to their own computer.
After I created a photo slide show in iDVD, it played just fine on both the computer and on a DVD player. But when I have the DVD in my computer's super drive and I try to access any of the photos (jpeg files) that are on the DVD-ROM portion, I get an error message saying they can't be opened.
What am I doing wrong?
I have iLife 09 with iDVD version 7.1.2. My OS is Lion 10.7.2.

> 8mp camera and I have the images saved in TIFF which are 22.9m in size
That makes no sense.
> So resolution is not an issue.
Yes it is.
There are 2 issues here: file format and image size/resolution.
The best format depends upon what the print shop will accept. Often, JPEG is the only option and simply saving at the highest quality will give excellent results. If the option is available from the shop, give them a non-lossy format - TIFF is probably best.
With image size it's all down to pixels and looking at th epixel size of your image is what matters. The "resolution" [PPI value] is simply the ratio of pixels in the image to inches on paper. So long as you PPI is at least 200 and no more than, say, 600, you are OK. Print shops operate in 2 ways:
The expensive ones will take your image and you tell them how big you want to print and they do it.
The cheaper ones require the image be carefully prepared to be the right size - i.e. have the PPI set so that the size in inches is right.
In my experience, the cheaper ones, while requiring more work, often produce the best results.
If you are in the UK, email me [colin_walls AT yahoo DOT com] and I will direct you to an excellent mail-order printer, who is cheap, reliable and produces excellent results. [I have no business connection with them, except that I'm a happy customer.]

Replaced DVD-ROM with 18x MCE Superdrive. Will not complete a DVD burn!!!!

updating my gigabit ethernet dual 450 G4 powermac. swapped out the original dvd-rom drive with an 18x SuperDrive from MCE. Running Panther 10.3.9 with all updates. Machine has upgraded 120GB hard drive, 512 RAM.
Driver loads from MCE install disc. Using Toast 7.1.2 to burn a data DVD-R using automatic "best speed" setting. Drive revs up and "writing lead-in" appears in Toast window, but no blue in the progress bar. Toast then says :Writing disc", and displays a time (usually 1:40), but does not count down. Eventually, the drive becomes silent and the burning process just hangs there. I've let it hang for about an hour. Tried burning a DVD-R with 20MB data, up to a disc with 2GB data, and same thing happens. I then abort the burning process, having to Force Quit 5 times to close Toast, then restart. OS prompt appears as Toast opens, saying "disc contains no volumes blah blah, eject, ignore etc). I eject the DVD-R and ALWAYS on the write surface, there is about a 1/2" of data that appears to be written, but the disc is obviously unreadable. I have wasted 7 out of the 10 free DVD-Rs that came with the MCE drive. Used PatchBurn 3 and it says drive is already supported. System Prof says burning is "vendor supported".
Tech support on the phone asked about master/cable settings. Superdrive is master (as was original DVD-Rom I removed), and I kept intact the Zip 100 drive underneath, which has no jumper plug on either of the 3 sets of jumper pins.
I ran the burning process: 1.) with Zip Drive unplugged from shared cable, SuperDrive still set to master. 2.) with Zip drive connected and set to slave, SuperDrive still as master.
Same burning problem with Toast 7.1.2 as well as the older 6.0 version.
I managed to however burn a CD-R of data in both Toast versions, and disc burning appears to be supported in the iTunes burning preferences.
What else. The drive is listed in Toast as DVD-RAM. And apparently tech support has told me this is an LG 18x SuperDrive, and I was instructed to load the driver from the install disc for 20x SuperDrive. The driver froom the 18x install disc (the obvious one I thought, since it is an 18x burner), did not enable burning according to System Profiler and iTunes. I used PatchBurn 3 to create a driver successfully, but had the same burning problem.
I'd rather find some answers here, than have to call MCE support in Irvine California and use up minutes on my cell!!!
Please, help. I'm sure I can send the drive back to macmall.com. Can anyone recommend a SuperDrive that will actually work in my G4 Dual 450?
Thank You!!
marc

Today I bought that very same model LG - branded, black front from a local PC retailer. It was cheap, bulk without any package or cables,in fact it was only 5 Euros more than a CDRW...
Apple System Profiler says : DVD-RAM GSA-H55N, vendor Aopen/LG, atapi , firmware id : 1.03 , internal disk id : 0.
I have a copy of Toast Titanium 6.05 -> upgraded for free at Roxios website to 6.1.1 and succes - I have burned a 550 MB CD-R with Toast under my beloved Jaguar OS 10.2.8 at full speed settings in virtualy no time ;.)
I am bidding on ebay right now for a copy of Apples ilife (2003) which contains idvd3, the only version which will run on my specs.( idvd4 is some 700Mhz minimum ) . I will try tomorrow how about patchburn in the Jaguar edition will make this drive compatible with Finder's or itunes burn buttons.
Anyway, Toast 6 seems to be able to do the job, and it can make DVDs and Video-/ Picture and what not else CDs too. I did not doctor with the speeds settings, I left all to "best possible" and it burnt in very little time a disc I can read on my Tiger Mac too.
The G4 PCI tower ( 1999 - 2000 ) is built on around the same mainboard as the blue/white G3, it has internal 100 MhZ IDE-bus, so it works even this old and I would expect any G3 tower wo also support that combination of Software/OS/Burn Apps. Those old machines can do wonders, let alone you need the Software from back when it was "High-End". - Of course I could put Tiger and ilife 06 on it, but then it would get ridiculous slow and unproductive.
Just my few first opinions with the all new Burner in the oh so old machine

Sharing DVD-ROM with windows computers ?

altought i'm very experienced with linux, i'm rather new to mac os, so if this question sounds dumb, accept my early apologies.
thing is, some time ago, i was trying to copy some printer drivers from a CD to a windows box that didn't have a working cd-rom reader. at first i tried to share my ibook's dvd drive with the windows box, but couldn't find a way to do that from the GUI. since samba is nothing new to me, i edited samba's smb.conf file and added the share manually. after i restarted samba, the windows box could see the share, list the cd's folders but it couldn't open any file nor run executables.
all windows said was that i didn't have permission to do so.
i ended up sharing the C: drive on the windows machine and mounted it on mac os to push the files to a temp folder on the wondows side.
i found and old thread here (from 2000 IIRC) about a shareware that could share folders other than my own home folder, but i don't want to use it, i rather edit smb.conf manually. i'd like to know if there's anything alse besides adding the share in smb.conf that'll allow windows to access the files on my DVD unit.

ok here is the problem the mount points of volumes on Mac OSX differs from linux,
In linux volumes are mounted in /mnt
however on the mac the reside in /dev for example my dvd drive on my imac is
/dev/disk1s1
but the only way to browse the volume is using is pathname /Volumes/dvdname
where dvdname is that actual name of the disk.
So I can easily setup a samba sharepoint on my using the /Volumes path e.g add the following to /etc/smb.conf
[dvd]
comment = dvd drive on macintosh
writable = no
path = /Volumes/dvdname
The problem is that whenever you change your dvd roms you have to change the path to the /Volumes/ each time.
Sharepoints would be quick way of doing this.
I have tried using path = /dev/disk1s1
but I get an error I will keep digging and if you google around as well maybe we can find a good solution.

Having problems saving photos to my Desktop with PSE 8.0

I do not know what I am doing evidently, and am una
ble to view.open or change my photos to PSE 8.0.. How in the world to you save to t
he desktop, etc as a jpeg pse8.0 file? When I sel
ect my photos that are on the desktop, I can view with Windows Viewer, but
am unable to find PSE 8 to save or view..??? What do I hav
e to do to be able to use the program.
My e-mail address is
[email protected]
Thank you very much, Lee

what do you mean when you are saying , you are not able to see in PSE8?
righ click on any photo and select Open with > Photoshop Elements 8.
It should launch PSE8 and you should be allowed editing.
In case this is not happening, can you please explaiun a bit more, as in, your exact steps?

DVD rom with a DDP

When you create a DDP for a disc that has DVD-Rom material (files to go on the disc), is there anything special that you have to do or is it written into the DDP?
Thanks,
Alex

What do you mean "DDP"? We see lots of acronyms around here. Mean different stuff to people in different disciplines
bogiesan

NTSC DVD created with iMovie 6.0.3. Need to convert to PAL.

Is there a way to do this without starting over? Can I switch iMovie from NTSC to PAL? Can I take my iMovie NTSC project and copy it to a new iMovie window after switching the preferences to PAL? Would that keep chapters in place? Can Toast or something do this? I sure hate to totally start over.

Hi
Please Karsten
b) export your iMovie project; drag the resulting file into a new PAL IDVD project; iDVD will ask you to keep or change the standard
IS NO GOOD WAY at all - It works but resulting DVD is barely viewable ! (jumpy, un-sharp and really bad)
a) is an excellent choice as long as TV is fairly modern - else result will be Bl/W
My notes on this:
PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL
A. Copying commercial DVDs - No Not possibly at all - Not even legal to discuss.
B. Home made DVDs (DVDs without copy protection)
C. Movies from iMovie or FinalCut
• Save as full quality QuickTime .mov and convert this with JES_Deinterlacer (free on internet)
NTSC ---> PAL.
• Most often not necessary - Most stand alone PAL DVD-players playback NTSC
(if TV is old in BL/W)
PAL ---> NTSC.
• If played on Mac - not necessary AT ALL
• If on NTSC DVD-player - CONVERSION IS NEEDED - nearly no Stand alone NTSC-DVD-players
playback PAL at all.
To do this You need to convert the PAL DVD to streaming.DV or full quality QuickTime .mov
• I use Roxio Toast™ to do this (There are no free converter)
• JES_Deinterlacer (free on internet) to convert to NTSC
• Set up an NTSC project (29.97fps or 30) in iDVD and import then burn
I burn to
• Verbatim DVD-R
• Set down burn speed in iDVD to x1 or x4 recommended by many
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal boot hard disk before burning (IMPORTANT)
PAL is 25 fps and an analog TV standard of 625 lines
NTSC is 29.97 fps and 520 lines
NTSC (29.97fps) 520 lines - about 640x480 pixels (square) 720x480 rectangular (narrow) pixels
PAL (25 fps) 625 lines - about 768x576 pixels (square) 720x576 rectangular (narrow) pixels
to use a photo 702x480 resp 576 then add 9 pixels on each side to add together as 720
If iDVD hangs on PAL or NTSC.
Bengt W wrote
Deleting iDVD pref. file - should return You into NTSC mode.
Yes iDVD can switch to PAL - BUT as You see with a rather lousy result.
a. Need to convert to PAL - most often not - Most PAL-player can playback NTSC
and on a fairly new TV in color. (old TV in Bl/W)
(Other way around - from PAL to NTSC most often a must - few NTSC-player can use PAL)
b. IF MUST - then use JES_Deinterlacer to do this conversion - so much better and free.
My list on this (or rather PAL --> NTSC - just think the other way around)
I have to send it overseas
That too can be a problem. As USA = NTSC = 29.97fps and EU = PAL = 25fps.
DO Not let iMovie or iDVD do this conversion from one to the other - Result will be Very
BAD
I save the movie as a full quality QuickTime .mov file then I use JES_Deinterlacer to do the conversion - then I cont. in iMovie or iDVD with project set accordingly.
JES_Deinterlacer is free on Internet and there are Pro applications but not that much better and costs are astronomical.
PAL-DVDs - don't play in US
NTSC-DVDs - usually plays well in EU
All plays well on a Mac - What ever.
Allosaurus writes
Thank you SDMacuser. I dumped all the plist icons with no result, and was getting pretty plist off when it occurred to me to delete all the previous dvd.proj files. Bingo. That did the trick. So thank you for all your help and the additional information you provided.
Yours Bengt W

Can anyone print photos from dvd created with imac?

hi,
If I burn 400 JPEG photos in a dvd using iMac, can any one be able to print those JPEG's?
I am going to photograph a wedding and it is essential that the JPEG show impeccable... how should I proceed?
thanks for your answer.
Angie.
www.photographyangie.com

If you create slideshows of the photos in iDVD via the "+" button:
and burn a video DVD disc the only possible copy anyone could get would be a screen shot of the DVD playing on a computer and that would be a small, low resolution (~72 dpi) image that would not be much good for printing anything other and a very small copy.
Create slideshows of 95 slides or less by importing the photos into an iDVD slideshow. Before importing crop the photos to the 4:3 size ratio that iDVD uses. You can create multiple slideshows in one iDVD project:
If you create slideshows in iDVD from still photos the viewer will be able to advance forward and backward one slide at a time with the Forward and Back buttons on the DVD player's remote tool.
If you create a movie of the photos and add that the only option is to fast forward or fast backward in the resulting movie.
In addition, follow the workflow below to help assure the best qualtiy product:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

How do I get a DVD made with imovie by someone else imported into my imovie

A friend from out of town recorded a 2 hour video of my band performing. He imported the video from his camcorder into imovie on his mac and burned it into a DVD and destroyed the original files. I have the DVD and would like to import into my mac into imovie to create some individual song video files for our website. I don't plan on doing this frequently and I need software with a simple interface that is easy to understand. I have no problem purchasing software (but I'd take freeware if it were available) to easily rip the DVD into the best format to work with in imovie. I have imovie '08 but would use another software if it was easier or better. I don't want expensive or pro editions since this is likely the only time I'll do this. any suggestions?

You will need third party software such as Handbrake, Ripit; these you have to purchase.
MPEG streamclip is free: http://www.squared5.com/
but you probably also need Apple's QuickTime component ($20): http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
With thanks to AppleMan, here are his instructions for doing this from a DVD to iMovie 8:
+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 is 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+
Post back if this does not help. You do know that decompressing footage from a DVD causes some quality loss? But, better to have the footage with some loss than not to have it at all!

Copying saved photos on dvds into the iphoto library manager

I am trying to copy photos saved in 2011 on dvds into my library manager. I followed the instructions about copying them on my hard drive first. Now that they have been copied on the library manager, can I delete the folder they are in on the hard drive? it seems to me that we are having to take a lot of space duplicating all those photos.

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Using DVD+r with imovie

I recently purchased a new Imac computer. Previously I have transferred all of my old home movies to a dvd+r format using a dvd recorder. Is there a way I can copy the info found on the dvd+r discs to the harddrive in order to edit the movies using imovie? I have about 2 hours of movies to edit.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

you have some options to import content from a DVD
(as long, as your iMac's dvd drive supports dvd+)
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V (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple
mpeg2 plugin (20$) + Streamclip (free)
Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works
25$ + Apple plug-in
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dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
* connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a
DVD-player and disk to tape/use as converter
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Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Using 8cm dvd disks with iMovie

Several of the students in my school are using mini DVD camcorders of their own.
Am I right in thinking that it's NOT possible to export and edit footage from these dvds? Surely not!
At the moment I can't even figure out a way to insert the disks without going back to using one of our old tray loading G4s. Do I need an adaptor to insert them into slot loading G5? (Some camera manuals seem to warn against this!)
Is there any point any way? How would I rip the DVD contents into a format that's importable into iMovie HD?
Can't believe that a new camera format such as this seems to have this basic functionality all wrong!

you have some options to import content from a DVD
(as long, as your iMac's dvd drive supports dvd+)
* DVDxD
V (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple
mpeg2 plugin (20$) + Streamclip (free)
Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works
25$ + Apple plug-in
* Toast6/7 allows converting to
dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
* connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a
DVD-player and disk to tape/use as converter
Yes, the Imac does play DVD+ discs. Do you have a preference for any of the programs suggested? Many thanks for your help with this.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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I can't burn dvd's with iMovie because my new macbook pro don't have idvd how can i get it.

I recently bought a new macbook pro and it didn't come with idvd and every program tells me to send my completed movies to idvd. How can I get the program idvd. if i have to buy ilife 11 will it work and how can i get it.

ivas2nd wrote:
so my new macbook will support ilife 11. Can anyone post a link that will direct me where to order it with the idvd and iweb because the specs says nothing of the two on the apple website. it just says it has imovie garage band and iphoto.
yes it does - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC623Z/A/iLife-11
iWeb and iDVD
iLife ’11 also includes iWeb and iDVD for creating instant websites and burning your own DVDs.
Note: iDVD and iWeb are included in the iLife '11 single-user and family pack box, but they are not included on new Mac computers.
What's in the Box
DVD containing iPhoto '11, iMovie '11, GarageBand '11, iWeb (v3.0.2), iDVD (v7.1)
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