Transferring iDVD 4 project to iDVD5

We saved an iDVD 4 project but the original iMovie folder was deleted. When we went to burn on iDVD it kept on freezing. We therefore transferred it to the Mini Macs via a lacie hard drive. When we went to burn the project on iDVD5 a message appeared informing us that Video and Audio files were missing. This is for a school project and several children are unable to have a record of their work. Any help gratefully received.

Unfortunately all of the iLife apps use reference files pretty heavily, which means the content in your iDVD project is actually only a reference link to the original source. If that source is moved, renamed, or deleted, iDVD will be unable to find the material. This was true with any version of iDVD. Did you archive your iDVD project prior to moving it to the new computer or merely just move the files.
You should have archived the project if you were not going to transfer all of the original source material (including iMovie, iPhoto, or whatever else you added). If you didn't archive the content and you indeed did nuke the source files, the iDVD project is most likely beyond recovery.
About keeping the source material for an iDVD project
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164948
Moving or renaming project asset files on your hard disk
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164947

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Changing TV Standard - CRASH! Opening iDVD'04 project

I raised this before, was hoping that the 7.0.2 update was going to fix but no.
Is anyone out there from Apple? Helloooo! You have a defective product that I paid
for and can't use. do you care?
This is the displayed message when opening a project that was made with iDVD '04
"Changing TV Standard
Changing the TV standard will require iDVD to encode all previously encoded assets again."
Which is total BS anyway as the standard has not changed, it was 4:3 PAL in the project and it is 4:3 PAL in the preferences
Rapidly losing faith with Apple.
This is in the console log:
===== Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:36:03 Europe/London =====
2008-07-03 00:36:31.174 iDVD[285] * -[NSPanel window]: selector not recognized [self = 0xa563040]
An exception of type NSInvalidArgumentException occured.
* -[NSPanel window]: selector not recognized [self = 0xa563040]
Stack trace:
1 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
2 +[NSException raise:format:] (in Foundation)
3 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
4 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] (in Foundation)
5 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
6 _objcmsgForward (in libobjc.A.dylib)
7 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
8 0x0000bb58 (in iDVD)
9 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
10 -[NSAlert didEndSheet:returnCode:contextInfo:] (in AppKit)
11 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
12 -[NSAlert buttonPressed:] (in AppKit)
13 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
14 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] (in AppKit)
15 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
16 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] (in AppKit)
17 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
18 -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] (in AppKit)
19 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
20 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] (in AppKit)
21 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
22 -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] (in AppKit)
23 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
24 -[NSControl mouseDown:] (in AppKit)
25 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
26 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] (in AppKit)
27 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
28 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] (in AppKit)
29 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
30 0x000feca8 (in iDVD)
31 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
32 0x001144c0 (in iDVD)
33 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
34 0x000d1d38 (in iDVD)
35 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
2008-07-03 00:36:31.413 iDVD[285] NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:
NSInvalidArgumentException -- * -[NSPanel window]: selector not recognized [self = 0xa563040]
Stack trace: 0x96c2bf10 0x92c0ee0c 0x92be7ed0 0x90a460b0 0x0000bb58 0x939b2f3c 0x9399df04 0x938518b4 0x938517e8 0x938516c8 0x9386b664 0x9386b24c 0x9386ac70 0x9380c4e0 0x937b5524 0x000feca8 0x001144c0 0x000d1d38 0x000d0228 0x000cb0d0 0x000cb328 0x000241d8 0x00009688 0x00008810 0x938ef7c0 0x938518b4 0x938517e8 0x938516c8 0x9386b664 0x9386b24c 0x9386ac70 0x938ef11c 0x9380c4e0 0x937b5524 0x937ac960 0x9389d458 0x00004e38 0x00003b9c 0x000038a0
An exception of type NSInvalidArgumentException occured.
* -[NSPanel window]: selector not recognized [self = 0xa563040]
Stack trace:
1 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
2 +[NSException raise:format:] (in Foundation)
3 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
4 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] (in Foundation)
5 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
6 _objcmsgForward (in libobjc.A.dylib)
7 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
8 0x0000bb58 (in iDVD)
9 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
10 -[NSAlert didEndSheet:returnCode:contextInfo:] (in AppKit)
11 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
12 -[NSAlert buttonPressed:] (in AppKit)
13 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
14 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] (in AppKit)
15 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
16 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] (in AppKit)
17 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
18 -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] (in AppKit)
19 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
20 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] (in AppKit)
21 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
22 -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] (in AppKit)
23 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
24 -[NSControl mouseDown:] (in AppKit)
25 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
26 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] (in AppKit)
27 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
28 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] (in AppKit)
29 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
30 0x000feca8 (in iDVD)
31 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
32 0x001144c0 (in iDVD)
33 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
34 0x000d1d38 (in iDVD)
35 taskstartpeeking: can't suspend failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
##**## Not encoding -> exit(5)

As a test I took an old iDVD 4 project on my 933 mhz G4 running Panther and saved it as an iDVD ARCHIVE with include Themes and Encoded Assets checked.
I then opened it on my 1.33 Ghz G4 Powerbook running Tiger and iDVD '08.
It 'sort of worked'. Things opened fine but I had a broken asset warning on video in the menu button. I was able to drag and drop the movie on the menu in the Map view to get rid of the broken asset warning, but the movie in the menu button doesn't play. The projects preview fine, but without the movie playing in the button.
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IDVD 6: Menu buttons don't show up from iDVD 5 project

I have an iDVD 5 project that I opened in iDVD 6. It consists of 3 slideshows. (There was an issue with it not seeing the iPhoto 6 photos, but that's another issue I posted in the iPhoto forum.)
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I tried creating new menus but those don't show up either (although, oddly enough, at one point I added a new menu and the title of one of the slideshows showed up!). This project had the Travel theme in iDVD 5.
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The -34506 error. Welcome to a world of frustration and wasted evenings. There are plenty of threads here with suggestions on 'rules' for setting up your slideshows in iMovie, clearing caches, creating new users etc. These have fixed this particular error for some people.
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Simon
## Oops! - I should have read your post more carefully the first time. Hey, at least you have a new number, even if it does provide as little real information as to what the source of the error is as the one I mention!
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IDVD 5 Projects Destroyed by iDVD 2

By mistake I opened an iDVD 5 Project with iDVD 2. The project was immediately destroyed and the file which was originally several GB reduced to just 72KB. The file was destroyed even though I chose NOT to save it. Is this a known problem and can I retrieve my project.

Actually, these projects are not that complex. straight creation from iMovie chapters and only a little cleanup in iDVD.
I think it has something to do with the way iDVD handles favorites (since these were all based on favorites). In HOme/library/applications support/iDVD there is a folder called Favorites for new favorites I create in iDVD 6. The rest of my old favorites are in a folder called Installed Favorites. Those in "favorites" work while those in "installed favorites" don't work. Even though both are based on standard Apple Themes. Irony is the themes are in "installed themes".
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Does anyone know the upgrade path? Do I have to install and upgrade from 1 to 2 to 3 etc. all the way up to 6 or what?
What is the shortest method? Can I skip any versions?
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Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately, for my client, he needs to use this project because it is a template he uses for his business.
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The new machine wont run iDVD 1 and his project is on the new machine and iDVD 6 wont open it. But he needs to use this project. He uses it as a template for the work he does for his clients.
I know there is a huge jump from 1 to 6. But we're kinda stuck since he can't go back to his old machine and he needs the project itself, not just some video off of it.
I have all the versions of iDVD and was just thinking of updating his project version by version. Install 2 then update, install 3, then update and so on..... I was just wondering if I can skip a version or two here, maybe go from 1 to 3 and then from 3 to 6, etc....
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Can iDVD 6 projects be burned on a PC with Nero 6?

The subject line pretty much tells it all...
I am about to buy iLife '06, but only have a Combo Drive in my PowerMac G4. My Windows PC is better equipped to master and burn DVDs, etc., but I want to use my Mac for working with home movies. Does anyone know if saved iDVD 6 projects can be moved to a Windows PC and burned to DVD using Nero 6? I'd be happy with this process as it wouldn't be terribly inconvenient, and I wouldn't need to invest in a DVD burner for my Mac if not necessary.
Bottom line... I suppose I will not invest in iLife '06 if this doesn't work, as I could just work with video projects on my PC.
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See here. 107€ is cheaper than the retail price of Toast in Finland. I know the download from Roxio is 99 dollars, etc., but who in their right mind would buy Toast for anywhere close to that when you can get the full version included with a LaCie d2 for 107€ ?
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Changing TV Standard - CRASH! Opening iDVD'04 project - REVISITED

I raised this some time ago:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7488339#7488339
Basically opening an iDVD '04 project in iDVD '08 fails. Either hangs or quits.
This still happens with 7.0.3. despite the fact that Apple support acknowledged the error over 6 months ago.
Have emailed the first line people on the case but last time I tried that I never got a response, I suspect they have left.
Anyone know of a general email address I can use, I do have a case number.
I have not tried the Archive option yet as suggested by someone in referenced thread.

As far as I can see, your question was answered in your earlier thread.
iDVD 4 is pretty old, and much has changed in iDVD 7/8.
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1, Is it way of saving/ exporting iDVD 6 projects as iDVD 4?
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3, Is there any way of at least importing some iDVD 5 or 6 templates?
4, Is there any source for DVD studio templates that resemble the iDVD 5 or 6 ones?
5, Is there any source for additional DVD studio templates?
6, Is there an Apple "fix" for this missing import issue on the way?
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The answer is the first four questions is NO.
Google DVD Themepaks and you'll find additional themes for DVD SP.
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Can't save iDvD 08 project file

Why cant I save a iDVD 08 project file thats been saved to a DVD? I saved a project file to a TDK DVD (its 2 Gb). I needed the space at the time, now I want to work on it again. When I try to copy it to my hard drive I keep getting an error saying it cant read certain files. Only 2Mb makes it over. I tried the copy/paste and the drag/drop copy ways. Neither works. What gives?
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True but it's the necessary approach to saving a project that requires further editing in the future (otherwise original files get moved / assets may change locations and will confuse iDvd)
Quoting the Help Menu:
Saving an iDVD project
As you work on your DVD project, you should save it periodically to safeguard your work. When you want to move or back up your finished project to another computer, you can archive it.
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Transferring iDVD project from one computer to another?

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Background information here:
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and here:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
By the way, you can ignore any messages about SUID or ACL file permissions, as explained here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
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Idvd final project has dead spots in sound

I recently created a slideshow in idvd where I imported photos and music. The music was downloaded from itunes. When the project was complete and burned to a Memorex write/re-write DVD, there were dead spots in the sound when I played it back on my TV/DVD player. The songs would just cut out for 3-5 seconds, then keep playing. Does anyone have any advice? Could there be an issue with the DVD I chose to use? Could fingerprints on the DVD account for this problem? Should I be looking at the idvd program as the problem?

Hello, rkotlow,
Welcome to the discussions.
First, Memorex disks are notorious for poor performance. You should be using good DVD-R disks such as Verbatim or Maxell. You should also burn at a slower speed, not faster than 4x.
Make a disk image first, using Disk Utility, that way you can check it to see if there are any audio problems:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
You can then burn your disks from within Disk Utility, selecting the burn speed:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
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