'Sharing' an iMovie project

An embarrassingly basic question from an iMovie beginner – do I share my project with iDVD or Media Browser in order to burn it to disc? Help-wise, it seems to fall down the crack between iMovie and iDVD, and I can't find the answer!

SHARE TO iDVD works only for DV and Apple Intermediate Codec (which were usually AVCHD in the camera).
Anything else should go to the Media Browser. DV and Apple Intermediate Codec files can also go to the Media Browser, and most people prefer this, because the report better results, and this allows you to have multiple movies on one DVD.
In my opinion, the option to send directly to iDVD as AIC or DV was added in response to customer beliefs that sending DV, for example, would save a compression step and therefor produce better results. However, iMovie has to render even DV to DV and AIC to AIC so this is not really an advantage.

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    Hi all, my first time on.  I shared my imovie project to Media Browser.  Fine.  Then after it downloaded it 'disappeared.'  Where did it go?  Having found it, how do I then share it with idvd?  I am told the image quality will be much better this route.

    Hi
    I do
    • In iMovie - select a project
    • Share to Media Browser and as Large (not HD or other res.)
    • Close iMovie
    • Open iDVD and select to start a New iDVD Project
    • Import movie - from Media button - down to the right - and here from Movies
    Yours Bengt W

  • Why is sharing HDV iMovie Project back to camera not in real time?

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    MauiJim wrote:
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    You're in the wrong forum.
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

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    Can I in fact use garage band in the manner I have described above?
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  • Whenever i try sharing my imovie trailer with idvd it says "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Error in user parameter list)". How am i supposed to burn it to a dvd then?

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    I keep getting the following error message while sharing my iMovie to iDVD.  "Unable to prepare project for publishing"  error (-2125).  I'm running iMovie 09 v. 8.0.6 on a iMac with OSX v 10.6.8, 2Ghz core duo, 1GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM.  Any ideas why?

    That particular error comes up for a number of reasons, sometimes it's the size of the movie you're trying to export. Bengt Wärleby a longtime contributor to the iMovie Discussion Group has advised a number of people on this error code, so I am going to link to his latest advice he's given to anyone trying to export to DVD from iMovie: Bengt's tips for great DVDs.
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  • Is there quality difference between iMovie project and QT shared file?

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    http://www.zenyourbusiness.com

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    Pat

  • Hi, im trying to burn my imovie project to a dvd. i went to share it to idvd and there was no option to do so. instead i shared it to quicktime and the project didnt show up when i tried to open it in idvd. i also tried sharing it to media browser and it

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