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I'm very confused. Most of my slideshows have been created with best performance selected in the prefs. I just made a show on my 12" Powerbook using best quality. When I tried to open its file again, I got a spinning beach and had to force quit. I then launched from an older show that had best performance selected and iDVD had no problem. I tried opening the best quality show again, and forget it. Beach ball time. I force quitted.
After a couple more failed attempts to open that file, I repaired permissions and chucked out my preferences plist. I tried opening again and got a window saying my preferences for the file didn't match the default preference and did I want that changed, and I clicked okay, and got the spinning beach ball ... I force quitted, went back and this time when the window opened I selected a different option, which directed iDVD to update the show. Then the file opened. However, the file is now set for best performance, as that's the default.
This has left me confused about a couple of things. (1) It seems the original setting for best quality threw off iDVD, but I'm not sure why. (2) The quality/performance setting is general, but shows are unique files. How is all this supposed to jibe in using files where some are set for best quality and others for best performance?
Also, I set my preference for best quality right at the start of making that problematic slideshow file. This seemed more sensible than setting it before burning, as wouldn't background encoding be going on otherwise? And isn't the lack of that what makes the quality better later on? But perhaps that's what hung up iDVD? Like I said, I'm confused. I simply want to use best quality for a show and be able to get into the file again later on after closing it.
Any suggestions? Or ideas why iDVD kept spinning out on that file? Sorry this is so long .......... Any help will be very appreciated.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2) Also G4 12" Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks for your response, but I'm not sure I
understand. What does "best quality" actually mean,
then?
Without getting to bogged down in explainations - talking about single-layer discs - Best Peformance uses fixed bit-rate compression for content under 60 minutes. Best Quality uses on-pass variable bit-rate compression for content under 120 minutes. It generally happens that for content under 60 minutes Best Performance give better quality than Best Quality.
Also, do you have any idea why a show done using the
best quality pref would result in the application
getting hung up?
BTW, my file is just a wee slideshow of 98 jpgs.
About 12 minutes long.
It MIGHT have been the presence of already encoded assets from Best Performance. (Best Performance can do background encoding because it uses a fixed bit-rate - Best Quality CAN'T do background encoding because the encoding bit-rate isn't set until all the content has been added.)
F Shippey

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