So slow rendering & burning project to a DVD
I understand some of the themes are quite complex... but 5 h and above to do the job ..errrrrr !
What is are the limitting factors ?
a) iDVD ( software )
b) my hard disk ( btw: enough free space )
c) my processor clock speed
d) my RAM
e) The OS ( latest version )
What can I do to accelerate the workflow ?
tks!
Faster processors and more RAM can help, and you need the HD space on your boot drive for iDVD's scratch space. And some simple stuff can help too:
- don't ask iMac to multi-task (it's a big job, let him stay focused).
- get him prepared for heavy lifting (I use MacJanitor and then Repair Permissions routinely).
- don't let him take a nap (set your energy saver kick to Never).
With my G4/400, I'd finish a project at night and let burn while I slept (ie, the unwatched pot boiled faster).
John
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I assume i have iMovie HD 6 since i bought my MacBook in july. How would i burn my iMovie project( which is my movie/slideshow from vegas) how would i burn it so it will play(i have a DVD recorder which burns and plays DVD+R) so i want to burn my project to a blank DVD+R. How would i do this?
ok, this shouldn't be too hard. First, you have to create an iDVD project. The best way to do it is to go to the menu bar and under "share" click on iDVD. in iDVD there is a pretty obvious button labeled "burn". This way, you can create a format for the menus and scene selection. If you want to, you can also click on burn to disk in iMovie. It's under "file". this way it will play automatically and there will be no menus or scene selection.
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With fcp can you render/burn project to dvd?
Can Final Cut Pro render/Burn project to a DVD?
FCPX has a basic Export to DVD feature which will finally burn a disk.
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Just mad a movie and trying to burn it to a DVD but keep getting an error message. It reads:
"Error during rendering/encoding. There was an erro during rendering/encoding of the menus/slideshows. The burning process has been canceled."Enable Show TV Safe Bengt Wärleby lists items to consider about encoding issues in this topic: Multiplexing Error: Apple Support Communities
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Burning your movie to DVD , slow !
so i have been making lots of home movies, you know the kids parties sort of thing... i finish my editing , and proudly go to burn it onto a DVD for parents and wife etc etc
1hr 45 mins MIN time !!!!!!
am i doing something wrong or is this normal ?
i have a MBP 2.16 ghzAfter it's finished, you can save and quit, and the video will be encoded when you open iDVD to burn your project.
That is exactly what is done when the project is saved 'as disk image' so that the project is preserved, ready to be burned (using Disk Utility). Saves on disks, allows you to see if there are any problems before attempting the actual burn.
Also, it worked that way recently for me while making said disk image. The power failed for about a second...just enough to make the mac restart. I thought, oh, great, just as it was nearly finished with the creation of the disk image. It probably had about 3min to go. I figured I had just lost about 6 hours and would have to start the encoding all over again. So, I opted to 'save as disk image' again, and it started with the rendering of the menus and then suddenly 'encoding video' began at the very place it had left off. I was highly skeptical of the resultant disk image, but it took only about 5 min and I had the entire DVD project on the disk image! The burned DVDs were perfect! I had no idea that a power failure would do anything but cause all work to be deleted and necessitate redoing it. What a nice surprise! -
Need help burning project to DVD
Can anyone help me burn a PRE project to a DVD in .VOB (NTSC) format so it can be read by any DVD player connected to a TV, not a computer. I know how it is supposed to be done in Premier Elements because I did it with small sample files, but whenever I try with a larger project, PRE always crashes during the encoding process.. First I will give the particulars of my system, then of my project, then of the trouble shooting I already tried, finally my experiences
System:
Intel Pentium "E2200" dual core processor @ 2.2 GHZ speed
3 GB RAM
Windows 32bit Vista Home Premium with SP2 installed
1/4 TB hard drive with 100MB free and 0% fragmented
Intel G31/33 graphics processor
Projects:
14 MB slide show consting of 5 MB JPEG files with audio or text captions and unedited MPG4 files of 480x720 pixels imported from Samsung camcorder set at recording quality of 5 MB/sec.
10 MB movie created in instant DVD by dragging above JPEG and MPG4 files from album
Neither have additional narration or music tracks
Both the above about 25 minutes on the timeline
Troubleshooting already tried:
Burning project to folder instead of to DVD
Exporting files to PC in MPG2 and AVI format
Rendering the file (not all at once, but in separate work areas at a time)
Burned to both -RW and -R DVD's
Deselecting the "Fit contents to available space" quality option in the burn menu and manually selecting a bitrate speed of 3 MB/sec
Repeating the above in selective start of windows with all start programs and non-Microsoft processes disabled
Repeating the above for both Slide show and movie projects
Results:
The encoding process never completes, but it abends at different stages in different trials--never the same point. Sometimes it crashes at less than 20% complete; sometimes it makes it to 96% complete, then stops responding. Sometimes it generates a crash report, and sometimes it just stops responding, so I have to open task manager to end the program. Sometimes I get a message that PRE is dangerously low on system memory. I just close the window and procede, because I am watching physical memory usage in Task Manager while PRE is encoding and it is consistantly about 60%. CPU usage often peaks at 100%, but not for more than 60 secs at a time. When the system crashed, it generated an error message in the administrative events log sometimes reading: "The entry <name of project file> in the hash map cannot be updated"; event ID 3013, which Microsoft found no help for. When it simply stops responding, it leaves no error message in the system log until I close the program.
I don't think I have a system error, because my system sussessfully burned two minute test projects, and don't have a project error, because I could render the timeline. What is going on here?
B.T.W, some people I talked to about this problem who make their living in photos and electronics suggest I buy a camcorder which records in MPEG2 format, then simply burn the MPEG2 files to DVD without re-encoding, insert the DVD into any player connected to a TV, and play. I don't think this advice is correct. Opinions?Hello, freethedata. This is the Photoshop Elements forum. Premiere Elements has its own forum, here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premiere_elements
and you'll get more help with video questions there. Good luck! -
Can't burn my IDVD project on a DVD or the desktop
Hello,
I made a project with IDVD and now I want to burn it on a DVD, but this is not working.
First it seems to work, but then when he is at the stage to burn the movies and slideshows. IDVD gives the error with encoding/ decoding. I tried it several times but I get all the time the same error.
I tried to copy my file on the desktop, but I got the same problem.
Could anybody please help me?!
Thanks!
MoniqueWhat version of iMovie? iMovie '08 or iMovie HD (v. 6)?
What brand and format DVD? You should use DVD-R. Verbatim works perfectly for me. Memorex and TDK have bad track records here...
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
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 Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. 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 did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD 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 -
Why do my rollover buttons quit working when I burn my project to a DVD?
Hi
I have a reel of my work built and everything functions when I simulate the project in DVD Studio Pro. However, when I burn the project to a DVD, my rollover buttons no longer work )and the quality of my work (menus, images, and videos) becomes very poor. I created my layered rollover buttons and menus using Photoshop. How can I resolve these issues?
ThanksWelcome to the discussions... Eric has the answer for you - you won't get a rollover effect when you use photoshop layer based menus because of the way that these become a series of different menus when the disc is built. You most certainly can get rollover effects if you use a standard overlay menu type.
The reasons for using a layer menu are largely confined to situations where you absolutely must reveal some contextual information when a user selects a button, and where this information must use a common area of the menu to all of the other buttons that do this. In all other situations avoid using them if you can, as they are so limited, offer slow playback to the end user, need more than one mouse click to activate a button and don't support audio or video backgrounds.
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How to burn project to DVD so it can be viewed on any DVD player?
Hello,
I am new to iMovie and currently using it to make a movie that I want to give as a Christmas present, therefore I want to burn the movie to DVD so it can be watched on DVD players as well as computers.
I have done research and found that iMovie no longer allows you to burn DVDs via iDVD...
So my questions are:
1) When exporting my iMovie, what file format should I use for best compatibility (can be view on PC, MAC or DVD players)?
2) What is the best free DVD burning software to use to get the movie onto DVD?
Thanks for the help!1) So a .MOV file is the best way to export the video from iMovie?
Don't know - but should work OK. alt. .mpeg4 / H.264 - but might be more of a problem
2) A .MOV file burned onto a DVD will be playable on DVD players?
NO - a Video-DVD (that can be played on any standard DVD-player) must be created using a DVD authoring program as iDVD etc. AND use Verbatim DVD-R disks to be on the safe side. Memorex is known to be problematic and so is +/-RW and DVD+R only plays on newer DVD-players.
3) What quality should I export from iMovie in? My vidoes are in 1080P I think.
DVD - is as Standard (Whatever program used) only interlaced SD-Video and most programs are bad on Downscaling = Share to MediaBrowser and as Medium use to give best possibly result (if You do not use iMovie HD6 or FinalCut as they can deliver even better result)
else I do not know
on DVD Quality I've collected this.
DVD quality
1. 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.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W -
How do I burn a simple iMovie project to a dvd ?
I am so frustrated every time I make an iMovie project and am ready to burn it to a dvd whether for a client or family/friends because I struggle each time to know what the steps are. When I finally get one burnt it is just by accident it seems and I go through so many dvds it's not funny. I don't like to use DVDR's that are printable because when they don't work I have wasted one of them, and I want to make professional looking dvds with a picture or logo printed on the dvd. There is nothing on the iMovie Help button that leads you to the steps for burning a dvd from your project even after you have shared/saved it in the size format you will be showing it. If I type in BURN IMOVIE DVD or anything at all like that it leads me to dead ends. I eventually seem to burn a dvd but it seems it is only by hit and miss and a lot of wasted dvdr's. Please, can't Apple provide simple steps to follow to burn iMovie projects to a dvd for viewing on various computers and tvs? I REALLY need answers.
In addition to John's suggestions this is what I was referring to. Use a template such as this one:
Select the button that's on the menu and delete it
Make a simple black graphic in any basic graphics application and fill it with black. Just drag the graphic into the menu to replace the background.
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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?
Additional info: trying to write to internal disk (268 GB Free out of 499 GB)
Please advise, alko80 -
How can I burn a copy of my project to a DVD . I do not have IDVD because I have the Lion OS. I did purchase Wondershare for burning but it will not load the iMovie events or projects
There is no proper substitute for iDVD.
Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3673
UPDATE & ADDENDUM:
But even though you can still buy iLife 11 that includes iDVD 7 from Amazon, Apple now make it difficult to install:
Poster jhb21939 posted this in another thread:
“when I attempted to load iDVD into a new iMac. A notice came up on the screen stating that the 'Authorisation Licence' had expired on 25 March this year (2012).
I contacted the Apple support team and eventually, I was told that the Licence had been withdrawn and could no longer be used.”
In other words Apple are now so adamant that we don’t use iDVD that they have tried to make it impossible to install.
In response, Old Toad posted this solution:
“You can still use it one all of your Macs. If you get an invalid certificate message just set your Mac's clock to sometime before early 2011 and run the installer. After you're done reset the time back to the correct time.” He added this comment:
“It began after iDVD and iWeb were discontued and they were dropped from the Apple Store. All I can think of is the certificate was set to expire after a certain time period after the intitial iLife disc was released.
I've been able to use the installer even without setting back the date. I just clicked on the Continue button and it would work as expected. For some it would not continue unless the date was set back.”
The latest anorexic iMacs just announced do not even include a CD drive! Proof positive that Apple virtually prohibit the use of DVDs - although the newly announced Mac Minis do include a Superdrive.
Yet, they still include iMovie! Heaven alone knows or understands what you are supposed to do with your newly edited masterpiece - except make a low quality version for YouTube? -
I need to burn a Final Cut Pro project onto a DVD. I watched a tutorial but they were using Final cut Pro 10. How do I burn a project just using Final Cut Pro? and can I go through IDVD? ( oh and how can I finalize the project?) Thanks!
I did that already it it only burned one section of the project. How do I export a master file? Can i just save it on the computer then take it to IDVD? Thank you so much for helping me!
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How do I burn an iMovie project onto a DVD?
I have recently completed an iMovie project, and I want to burn the project onto a DVD. I have exported the project and burnt it, but it only opens with iTunes and Quicktime, and I was hoping to play the movie on a DVD player. I am desperate and need assistance ASAP !!
When in iMovie, click Share then iDVD. In iDVD you can customize your dvd menu. After you are done, then click File, Burn DVD or ⌘+R. And it will ask you to insert your blank disk and then it will start burning. After it has completed the burn, it will ask you if you want to make another disk (if you want multiple copies). Your movie should then be viewable on any DVD player.
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I have a MacBook Pro 10.9.3 version.(Imovie version10.0.3) I just upgraded my computer now I cannot save my project to a dvd. I have spent hours trying to finda a way. I have read that others are having this same problem. I have tried to follow what they suggest only to find that when I go to the file my files do not use the same wording. That is why I as putting the kind of computer I have in this message in case that makes a difference. For the record I do have Idvd, but it will not open my project. It only opens those I already have completed. Can ANYONE help me.
I am having the same problem...but in my case I am trying to create an avchc dvd (a high definition format play able in Blu-ray players using standard dvds). (Still struggling in fact...)
If you want to create a simple dvd of the MPEG-4 "project" you created in imovie.....have you tried letting "finder" burn the DVD for you?
Go to: finder/go/computer/mac hard drive/users/macbook/movies in movie library......when you find your library (your path may be different than above)....highlight it, double click it, click "show package contents".....find your project...double click it....select "burn to disc".
Good luck. Its not as simple as it apparently was before Apple discontinued idvd
Best wishes
Larry B.
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