Two projects in one idvd?

Hi all,
How can I burn two iMovie projects in iDVD into a single DVD disc?

I'm still using iLife 06, so I don't know if it is different in the new iDVD. It's pretty simple, but the key is that the additional movies cannot be saved as movie projects. If it still has a ".MovieProject" extension, you won't be able to add it. Only the first movie can be a movie project - at least that has been my experience. So, save the movie as a finished movie e.g., have a ".DV" extension and you can add it.
You can add a movie a few ways - search on "add movie" in the help to read every way. What I do is just drag a file from Finder to the DVD menu. The other way is to go to File > Import > Video and select the movie you want to add and click "import."
Lisa

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Could someone help me figure out the best way to combine two iMovie (HD 5) projects into one iDVD project? I currently have a documentary with one iMovie project at 1 hour exactly. I am starting a second one and would like all this to go on one DVD eventually. I am especially concerned about what happens with the chapter markers already created in each iMovie project - how is that combined when the two are put together? If there is a link for this info, I'd be happy to read that as well.
Thank you!

I would combine them by saving each completed imovie (without chapter markers) as a full quality QuickTime movie.
Then start a completely new imovie project and import each of those in to make make one large imovie. (But remember, your DVD will only hold about 120 minutes of footage and that doesn't count the themes).
That's when I would add the chapter markers.
BTW-it's going to take up a lot of disk space to save the movie s and to burn the DVD.
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More than one iMovie project into one iDVD project??

Hi,
I am editing several iMovie projects which I had intended to put on one DVD using iDVD.
Can I use iMovie to share several projects to one iDVD project or should I use iDVD to import several (completed) iMovie projects to the one iDVD project?
Can I even have more than one project on in an iDVD project?
I am currently importing a large video file to iMovie so iMovie is inaccessible.
My iMovie projects are video only (no menus, etc. until I import to iDVD).
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Well, it is recommended that you use the 'Best Performance' default setting from iDVD's Preferences for movies under 60 minutes to get the best quality.
If you want to put 60-120 minutes on one DVD, you have to select either 'High Quality' or 'Professional Quality' Both will give good results; PQ will take a bit longer to do and is supposed to be higher quality.
I usually make movies just under 2 hours, and I always use PQ. I am pleased with the quality of my movies on DVD disks. However, you should know that I am using iMovie 6 and not any hi-def videos (yet ).
David Pogue explained the process of 'Best Performance' and 'Best Quality' (what the option was before HQ and PQ) like this:
Best Performance option allots "+a fixed, predetermined amount of data to each frame of video...no matter how many minutes of video...A lot of the DVD might wind up being empty--if...the project contains less than an hour of video. But the process will go quickly, and the video will look really great+."
Best Quality option uses "+every micron of space on this blank DVD+" because it analyzes "+the amount of video...included+," and divides "+it into the amount of space available on the DVD. The amount of information used to describe an individual frame of video will vary from project to project, and it will take...a lot longer to burn the DVD because+" of "+so much analysis. But at least+" you "+will get two hours of great-looking video per disc.+"
If your videos are short, you might want to try all the encoding options and see which gives you the best quality.

How do you import multiple iMovie projects into one iDVD project?

Hi.
I'm 17, and am trying to create a DVD of when the family went on a cruise. For different places/days, I've created different iMovie projects.
But, when I want to export to iDVD, it only lets me put one iMovie project into one iDVD project?
I've tried dragging the actual iMovie project files into iDVD but that doesn't work.
I know I could export to QuickTime and then drag it into iDVD, but it seems exporting just to iDVD is much quicker, and the quality is better.
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That is not true. You can use them all in one DVD. I have just created my first DVD which has a trailer, a movie with chapters and several different slide shows.
All you have to do is save each project to Media Browser. (Choose Share in toolbar). Open iDVD and choose your theme or no theme. On the right will be all your options such as audio, media photo's etc. Choose your various video's/projects etc and just drag and drop which ones you want to the page and they will automatically put themselves there with the given name of each video/project.

Put two imovie projects into one idvd project?

I have been trying for days to do something that seems so simple.
I have two imovie projects with chapters that I'd like to place as two separate movies into a single idvd project. I have tried everything, seems it should be as simple as clicking and dragging from one to the other. But idvd tells me the imovie project isn't prepared for sharing. If I share them to idvd, I get two separate projects. How do I combine them into one?

Best place to combine QT movies is in iMovie itself (that or FCP). However, the following link makes reference to combining two or more iDvd slideshows in iDvd. But one may also add multiple QT movies to the slideshow feature w/in iDvd.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9368329&#9368329
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/iDVD8movieSS.png
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I know I've moved referenced masters for images in albums without a problem by using 'relocate masters', but you are saying that dragging the image from one project to another will make two versions referencing a single master rather than moving the master?
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I am using Robohelp x5 generating Webhelp, Windows XP, and
Winzip 11.2. I created a zip of the Webhelp folders/files for
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takes keeps them apart.
This sounds more like JayBird is selecting files in the right
hand side of Explorer and zipping them, then doing the same with
another project.
The trick is to select a folder on the left in Explorer and
zip that, then when you add the next project to the same zip file,
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I've got 6 iMovie projects which I want to burn on to DVD. But, I don't want them as individual movies, but as one movie. Also, I'd like it to be able to select chapters for each project of these iMovie projects on the DVD - is this possible?
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Mont,
iMovie doesn't offer a way to combine projects (yet!)... So, the workaround is to either create a new project with clips from the other 6 projects' events, or to use QT Pro to concatenate all the 6 rendered movies into a single one (easy to do with cut-n-paste using QT Pro), and re-import the final one back into iMovie, or import the individual Movies (rendered project output files) one-by-one back into a new iMovie project.
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Two projects

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can we work on two projects for one client at the same time or one after the other, like one for global implementaion, one for U.S implementation. Will they usually have two implementaions seperately or together.
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Nivi

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Can any-one tell me if it's possible to combine two projects into one in imovie? I'd like to slot a project between still photos in an existing project.
ta

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Yes this has no stream-line function - but
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So... I have two iDVD projects both of which are under half an hour and they are both complete. The dvd is all set up, the menus have all been perfected and I like it. Is there anyway for me to set up one DVD and on the first menu of that DVD give the option to go into either of the two DVD's that I have made and have all their menus and everything be just the way they are without me having to redo everything?
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In other words, is there anyway for me to just combine the two projects and add a front page that gives me the option of going into either of the two in order to save DVD's and to archive everything?
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