Sending completed imovie project to idvd

Explain how imovie and idvd work together.
If I send my completed imovie project to idvd it prompts me to pick a theme.
Essentially re-create what I just did in imovie.
I just want to burn my completed imovie project to a dvd.
What am I missing?

Everyone should have a look at Ken Stone's site:
Authoring in iDVD 6
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/idvd_6stone.html
And all of the iDVD tutorials...
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iDVDAtAGlance.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iDVD5GettingStarted.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iDVDTutorial.pdf
Sue

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I am trying to send an iMovie project to iDVD and I keep getting the following error msg. "Unable to prepare subject for publishing: The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-43)"

I am trying to send an iMovie project to iDVD and I keep getting the following error msg. "Unable to prepare subject for publishing: The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-43)"

Check out this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1421870
It may mean you either your Event or your Project. Have you moved any of the files in the Finder by any chance? That error may come up if you moved anything outside of iMovie. Do you get an error message when you choose Share>Export to iMovie (choose medium size) and save it to the Desktop? If you can export it to the desktop, you can pull that file into iDVD separately and still make it work.

Trying to share a completed iMovie project with iDVD. iMovie keeps quitting. Why?

I've been trying to share a completed iMovie project with iDVD. iMovie keeps quitting unexpectedly. Why does it keep crashing?

Click on the button near the top of the window where it says Project Library (it toggles between Library and edit Project).
Click just once on the name of the project, so that it highlights in blue.
Go to File Menu > Duplicate Project. There will now be a second project with the same name, but with a number added to the end of the name
Open that duplicated project by double-clicking it
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I movie quits unexpectedly during editing and publishing
from Jasonryan1. It relates to a corrupted item existing in his project. And in his attempt to troubleshoot it, he suspected it was a Title he placed in the Project itself. Once he deleted the corrupted Title he was able to successfully export it. As to which item is causing instability, that's a tricky process to narrow down. And I would agree it seems unlikely all your projects could have some corrupted element in them. But it might work to concentrate on the simplest project which is showing the symptoms you describe. Duplicate that project and start deleting pieces of it and trying to add a Title to it and see if iMovie crashes. And that's not to say it's a title, it could just as easily be a picture, a transtion or a music clip that's preventing that project from being exported.

Low quality of burned DVD even if I drag&drop iMovie project into iDVD

Hi all,
I've a iMovie HD project that I want to burn via iDVD (7.0.4).
If I click "Share with iDVD" the quality of the resultung video (which is burned to DVD) is rather poor. As I've read within this discussions, the preferred way is to close iMovie and "drag and drop" the iMovie project into iDVD.
With this way, iDVD (instead of iMovie) will render the movie, which should give a video with far more quality.
Unfortunately, the burned DVD with the "drag and drop" method has the same low quality as the video with "Share with iDVD".
I've done a little research and noticed that the "shared movie" for iDVD (iMovie project->Show package Contents->Shared Movies->iDVD) for a 1:10 video has a filesize of only 32kb!
Is there any way to set the "export" parameters for this "shared movie" (it is a quicktime file)?
The quality of the completed DVD is acceptable if I export the iMovie project to "DV stream" an import this stream into iDVD. But in this case I lose all my chapter markers of the movie ..
Is there any way to export the movie from iMovie HD and keep all the chapter markers for iDVD?
Importing the iMovie HD project into iMovie 08/09 is not an option, as I lose the chapter markers also ..
Thanks in advice,
Kind regards.

Hi,
the iMovie project was created as "DV" project and I imported DV PAL clips. The iDVD preferences are also PAL (25fps) and the quality setting is "professional quality".
I've also tried the setting "best performance" within iDVD (as suggested within this forum), but with the same poor result.
I can see within the iDVD "project info" that iDVD will use "mymovie.mov" within the "Shared Movies->iDVD" of the iMovie project (Show package contents).
As this converted movie is of low quality, I think this is the root of evil.
If I export the movie from iMovie with "Export as DV stream" and import this converted movie into iDVD the quality is ok - but I lose the chapter markers ..
Is there any way to keep the chapter markers?
Kind regards.

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I'm trying to send a video to someone but they need to edit the video further. Is there any way I can send the imovie project so they can further edit it?

Which version of iMovie are you (and they) using?
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thanks. you mean one iDVD project can actually be
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that....
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And is it possible to add chapters, either in iMovie or in IDVD?
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Later.

While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use iMovie or iDVD. There're iMovie and iDVD Support Communities where everybody has iMovie and iDVD. You should also post this question there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/idvd

Imovie project to idvd

I'm trying to export an imovie project to idvd. The project is a slideshow of photos from iphoto with an itunes soundtrack. When I click "create idvd project", it advises that its needs to "render & proceed" , but nothing happens. I've also tried using "Share" and clicking idvd in the imovie menu, but that does not work either. I'm using imovie 4 and idvd 4. Has anyone else encountered this?
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Peter

Hi Peter
This is an often reported problem.
No I don't have a direct solution but
instead of using iPhoto to make Your Slide Show You could do as I do.
I start a new iMovie project
open pictures/photos in iMovie and drop the photos into Time-Line
edit:
- duration for each photo +
- adding sound and narration.
- transitions
- color correction
- etc
now
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b) find the project icon/folder
c) Ctrl-click on it and Show package.
d) in this there are a folder -> Shared Movies -> iDVD
e) in this there are a QT movie nnnnnnn.mov
f) drop this into an open theme in iDVD and save it as a desktop image
(if iDVD prior HD/5 You have to add a hack to make this possibly
named HPfurz and install it)
Test this with Apple DVD-player - OK then burn it with iDVD
or Toast if You have and dont want to re-code the movie.
Yours Bengt W

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Select the button that's on the menu and delete it
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Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk:
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2 - this "dead space" is recognized on iDVD as actual footage, so if I can take care of problem #1, then #2 will go away
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excessive +trial'n error+ editing in iM could create 'stray clips', just a single frame of video, 'somewhere' at the very end of the timeline.. set the zoom-slider to max and scroll at the very end.. you should be able to 'select' that almost-non-existing clip and delete it ...
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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5003.shtml
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I recently completed an iMovie project of my son's wedding shot on my new JVC Everio video camera. All footage successfully downloaded in Full Quality into iMovie. I did all edits on iMovie. All seemed great ......and so very excitedly, I exported it straight to iDVD.
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My son has an LCD LED television (1080p) and I would love to be able to present him his wedding dvd that looks as good as possible on his television (1080p).
Kind regards
Joe

Hi
Other things that degrade Quality when going to iDVD are
• Use of iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - Use iMovie up to HD6 or FinalCut any version instead as they keep full interlaced picture (not discarding every second line)
• Never use "Share to iDVD" within iMovie (as iMovie renders badly) - BUT use "Share to Media Browser" and as Large (not HD) then in iDVD import from it's Media Browser.
Yours Bengt W

I can't find a completed iMovie project

I completed an iMovie Project containing stills, vids and soundtrack. When attempting to convert it to an mp4 file via 'Share' menu, I was told I had insufficient memory to 'Share' and suggested I close iMovie and re-open it. When I did so, my completed Project no longer appears in my Project Library.
I note the icon for this Project still appears in my iMovie Projects Library folder on my hard drive but will no longer open in iMovie.
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Use the Devices and Printers to manually add the IIIP, make to to select the Windows Update in Add Printer set-up screen.
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I need to send a 15' project to another computer.
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Thanks

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