So what good is a disc image???

I did a search on this and saw nothing.
Very annoying; I've burned two coasters thus far from an archived Disc Image created in iDVD 7.x.
iDVD8 will not even load it, unless there's some &$^#%$ secret handshake-- why enable disc image burning in iDVD if the program can't even *&$%#$ open it and burn a fresh disc?
So I used the the desktop, loaded Audio TS and VIdeo TS into a burn folder. Pressed Burn button, selected 8X for the Mac Pro 10.5.8 burn. Verified correctly. When finished, ejected disk to test it.
Reloaded it.
It opens DVD Player and... does absolutely nothing. Press Play: NOT PERMITTED.
I figured out I have to go to the DVD menu, select Open DVD Media, select the disk folder to get play.
This is not what my clients are going to waste time trying to figure out, know what I mean??
So I tried DiskImageOpener utility. Same result.
This is garbage behavior-- who's Q/A in that department, anyway? Monkeys?
As always, advice appreciated.

Hi
It's always waste of time to use one tool to do another thing wich it's not supposed to do.
DiskImage is as I get it and use it
• a way to test a iDVD project before burning it
• a virtual DVD copy I can use as a master when making DVD copies - WITH APPLE DISK Util tool
or Roxio Toast™
What You created is a Data-DVD with video content. And as far as I know of - no
DVD-player is made to be able to play such a creature.
There are a major difference between video-DVD and data-DVD.
And - iDVD is not made for being able to open DVDs to make re-edits either.
Roxio Toast™ Can open a non copy-protected DVD to re-create an editable file
(with quality losses due to the .mpg2 codeing of video and audio)
Yours wanting to be of help Bengt W

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This is very humiliating when you play it to a crowd of friends
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I have had this problem ever since I used IDVD6, could returning to IDVD5 be a good cure?
This can not be a good direction of working…
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A few points:
First of all, how long is your movie? The closer it is to Best Quality's 2 hour limitation the more artifacting may occur. I find that if I keep things under 90 minutes I get much cleaner results. If it is over 90 minutes I split it over two projects (this all assumes you are using Single Layer DVD/burner. DL will, of course, handle longer movies differently)
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(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.
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• I use an as simple Menu possibly and no animation or Audio on this e.g. Brushed Metal from old themes
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• 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 ?
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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.
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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

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..)

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