Using IDVD to render Imovie project

It keeps stopping and telling me the project is too long. It is 38 minutes and I have already rendered it once before and burned some DVD's. I don't know why I can't render it again? I don't think it is too long

They are burned at 8x.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD at 4X speed. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
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.
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (not the .img, the one below) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. Your SuperDrive tray will open. Insert a recordable DVD. (DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. 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.
b Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD 5 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

Similar Messages

What should I use to burn an iMovie project to a DVD that will play in the TV?

What should I use to burn an iMovie project to a DVD that will play in the TV?

try google
http://www.daniusoft.com/convert-imovie/imovie-to-dvd.html
Thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4217823?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3711

Using idvd themes in imovie and photshop?

hi,
i would like to use idvd themes for the cover art of a dvd and sounds for imovie clips. therefore, i wanted to know if and how it's possible to find the image-file of an idvd theme so that i can import it into photoshop, as well if and how i can find the sound-file of an idvd theme so that i can use it in imovie. i would be happy if i can avoid using extra software like audio hijack pro etc. to extract the sound and graphics. is there's an easy way to find and use those files?
regards,
andi

You can look in the parcel contents, richt click or control click, than in the "contents" folder the "Recources" folder there you can find "tif" files.
Its a long list.
Mac OS X (10.4.8) dual 1Ghz PowerMac G4

Using iDVD for "for-profit" projects

I'd like to use iDVD to make some videos that will be sold as part of a training program.
Do I need some sort of commercial license if I'm going to use the menu themes (and accompanying music), jingles from GarageBand, etc.? Or are all of these truly royalty free for whatever use -- commercial or private -- we have planned?
Thanks.

I finally received an email yesterday from the Manager of Licensing at MPEG LA in Chevy Chase, MD; in it he asked me to call him to "discuss these matters briefly on the telephone". I just called him and he stated that as long as these homemade DVD's only contain "made by consumer" material (such as video/stills shot by consumer with his or a friend's camera) and using software which already has a license on it, I would not have to get a license or be required to pay approx. $0.03 per copy. However, if it contains commercial material and is intended for commercial use, a license and fees would be required. He also stated that they are not interested in pursuing fee collection with hundreds of thousands of consumers for the fee of one or two copies each because their administrative costs would be higher than the fees collected.
This, at last, answers my question related to iDVD/iMovie (mpeg) and hopefully answers yours; I don't know about GarageBand (I don't use it). I have read the SLA covering Sound Track (part of FCE) and it is allowed IF you make your own composition.
Message was edited by: Barbara Daniels1

IDVD not loading imovie projects

I have made many movies via imovie and idvd yet this time, when I opened idvd to burn my movie, the wheel just spins around and idvd fails to load my processed project. It recognizes all other movies in my Movie folder (including iTunes, archived and backed up movies on other drives) but NOT the two that are in IMovie. I have followed the same steps as always and shared the project via Media Browser. However, all I get in Idvd is the spinning wheel as it looks for my projects. I reset the preferences to look in the iMovie folder but this does not help. I went to this folder directly and used drag and drop to insert the movie to burn to disc and hopefully this works. But what gives that the projects are not loading into the Media pane? Any suggestions as what the problem might be?
Pat

To test if - trash pref file is right You can Safely do
• Start a new User-Account (Apple / System pref/set-up / Accounts
• Log out and into this
• Try iDVD - Does it now beheave - then trashing iDVD.pref file can be of big help (in original Account)
Delete iDVD pref file
• Delete iDVD pref. file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref. file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named.
com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
If You run Mac OS X.7 or more - then the Library in the User-account folder is invisibly and need to be set to be viewable. IT IS NOT in the Library on Root level (when opening MacintoshHD - first window = root level)
( It can be done like this: Open Terminal, then enter: chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press return, then restart, and it will always be visible until the next major update, when you do the same thing again. )
Yours Bengt W

Can I use iDVD to create a project to burn on a Windows PC?

I might be needing to create a DVD for a job I am applying for. I have a 12" iBook with just a combo drive. My Mom's Gateway computer does have a DVD burner. I'm wondering if it would be possible to transfer over the iDVD project to her computer and burn it that way. Or, would it be better to just transfer over the video file from iMovie and create the disc on her computer?
Thanks for your help.

wouldn't recommend terminal commands for beginners (other than showing them how to reset_all) and even if you happen to be an experienced mac user; i'd proceed with caution....
Agreed. But since there is no simple way to tranfer a Mac based file to a PC file. The terminal command is not bad after all. Except if Joey don't mind incurring expense of buying 3rd party software.

Using idvd transitions in imovie.

I would like to use the transitions that are found in idvd and add them to the choices of trasitions available to me in imovie. How do I locate those transition files being used in idvd program and move them to the imove program?
I am using ilife 4.

I doubt is possible.
But you can try and then post back here the results .
Right click the iDVD application, choose Show Package Contents, and then it's up to you to search for files that might be the transitions. Look for similar things in iMovie, and see if it works.
Be aware: back-up the two apps, so if you do something wrong you have a way back.

PLEASE HELP!! USE TIME MACHINE & RESTORED IMOVIE PROJECT CANNOT BE OPENED

Please HELP!!!! Imovie yesterday didnt save any of my project changes so I redid them today. And after I just closed Imovie again it did not save my changes from today. Thats 2 days of editing with no record of the changes
I use Time machine but I have never needed to restore anything. I have gone into time machine, found the file, hit restore and saved it on my desktop but I am not finding the file in imovie.
When I click on the file and select open in imovie it is not opening or if it is, it is not the file with the changes when it diverts me to imovie. So basically I can see the file in Time machine, I am restoring it to my computer but I cannot locate it in imovie with the changes. I can see the file on my desktop but i cant open it to view other than in imovie which ofcourse isnt showing the changes.
PLEASE HELP!!! IM DEVASTATED!!!!
I am working from an external hard drive. Yesterday I had the prompt appear that I had no more disk space (on my computer) so today i deleted a bunch of things and didnt get that prompt. And in anycase i am working off an external.
Please help me!!! I need a saviour!!!

Have you tried deleting iMovie's preference file?
Close iMovie and go to your Home folder(YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
Drag this plist file to the Trash. Don't worrry; iMovie will create a new fresh one when you relaunch it.
Reopen iMovie and see if it works ok now.
By the way, if you have more than one iMovie version on your computer, be sure to trash the correct plist.
iMovie 6 is 'com.apple.imovie.plist' but iMovie 8 is 'com.apple.imovie7.plist' and I expect that iM9 would be 'imovie8.plist' If you find only the one plist and you have only one version of iM, just trash that one.
Post back if this does not help.

Is it better to export an iMovie project as QT and use Toast to burn a DVD for general use or to export to iDVD and burn VD from there? Why?

Is it better to export an iMovie project as QT and use Toast to burn a DVD for general use - or to export iMovie project to iDVD and burn DVD from there? Why?

Toast probably maintains better quality if you are just doing simple conversion direct from your camera straight into Toast and then to DVD. There's a lot less transcoding steps and loss of quality in that direct to DVD disk creation in Toast. However, having said that,...There's good arguments probably for both.
What I've seen promoted most often (as most people don't have Toast or aren't motivated to buy it) is to Share to Media Browser (choose the Large size option) and then from inside iDVD click the Media Button and the Movies button to find the project under the iMovie star icon in the Media Browser window. Drag that project into your iDVD project and burn the disk.

Low quality of burned DVD even if I drag&drop iMovie project into iDVD

Hi all,
I've a iMovie HD project that I want to burn via iDVD (7.0.4).
If I click "Share with iDVD" the quality of the resultung video (which is burned to DVD) is rather poor. As I've read within this discussions, the preferred way is to close iMovie and "drag and drop" the iMovie project into iDVD.
With this way, iDVD (instead of iMovie) will render the movie, which should give a video with far more quality.
Unfortunately, the burned DVD with the "drag and drop" method has the same low quality as the video with "Share with iDVD".
I've done a little research and noticed that the "shared movie" for iDVD (iMovie project->Show package Contents->Shared Movies->iDVD) for a 1:10 video has a filesize of only 32kb!
Is there any way to set the "export" parameters for this "shared movie" (it is a quicktime file)?
The quality of the completed DVD is acceptable if I export the iMovie project to "DV stream" an import this stream into iDVD. But in this case I lose all my chapter markers of the movie ..
Is there any way to export the movie from iMovie HD and keep all the chapter markers for iDVD?
Importing the iMovie HD project into iMovie 08/09 is not an option, as I lose the chapter markers also ..
Thanks in advice,
Kind regards.

Hi,
the iMovie project was created as "DV" project and I imported DV PAL clips. The iDVD preferences are also PAL (25fps) and the quality setting is "professional quality".
I've also tried the setting "best performance" within iDVD (as suggested within this forum), but with the same poor result.
I can see within the iDVD "project info" that iDVD will use "mymovie.mov" within the "Shared Movies->iDVD" of the iMovie project (Show package contents).
As this converted movie is of low quality, I think this is the root of evil.
If I export the movie from iMovie with "Export as DV stream" and import this converted movie into iDVD the quality is ok - but I lose the chapter markers ..
Is there any way to keep the chapter markers?
Kind regards.

Have accidentally deleted video clips and now an iMovie project won't play (did initially after deletion but no longer). Is there any way to rectify this? I have a very upset daughter as the video was her holiday memories....

I have deleted the video clips used to make an iMovie project as I thought the bits usedt were saved as part of the iMovie project. Initially the project still played post deletion. However it is no longer working as it says it can't find the video clips. Is this rescuable?
I have a very upset daughter as project took her 2 days and was her holiday memories....
Any help gratefully received
Karen

There's no harm in looking inside the Trash folder.
When a file or folder is deleted, it is moved into the Trash folder to give you a chance to recover it if it was deleted by mistake. Of course that means Trash folder could grow large as time goes and more files are deleted.
You can recover your movies if they are still in the trash.
You should also empty the trash if you think you don't need the files in it to free up disk space.

Can't find Imovie project on HD

I've been having a nightmare week trying to burn a DVD from Imovie.
I think a source of the problem may be that I cannot find the movie on the HD. I'm pretty sure that when it's playing in Imovie its playing from the external HD. I understand this would make it difficult to burn.
I copied the big folder (I can't find the .mov file in it!) to the HD and set the one that was in the external in the trash. Imovie said it couldn't open the file "cause it was in the trash.
I've been on the IDVD-4 thread for a few days now. I've done lots of clean-up and disc utilities repair.

The size of the iMovie project folder is not important for iDVD, only running time. On my 800MHz G4 iMac, it takes about 5 hours to compress a 60 minute DVD. So there must be something wrong with your Mac, iDVD or your iMovie project.
Prevent Mac Disasters
Eight Simple Steps You Can Take Now to Keep Your Mac from Falling Apart
http://www.macworld.com/2005/01/features/preventmacdisasters/index.php
(Article is in 3 parts, don't miss parts 2 and 3)
The unofficial iDVD 4 FAQ:
http://www.kentidwell.com/idvd4/index.html
The unofficial iMovie FAQ:
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml
The time here is now 10:30PM and I need some sleep :-)
Good luck and post back about your progress (or lack thereof).

IMovie projects from previous mac

I have just upgraded my computer to a new imac - congratulations I hear you all cry!!
I have a folder with all my movies/iMovie projects/iMovie events and what I thought was all the work from iMovie stored safely on an external disk.
My problem is that when I search for the iMovie project folder - they are all there but greyed out -
I cant seem to open them in iMovie now.
Have I missed something here - in iMovie!!
Any ideas please....

Your external disk needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled) for iMovie to see it. It may be that your's is formatted as FAT32. If so, you might try dragging *using the Finder) the iMovie Projects folder contents to the iMovie Projects folder on your new Mac's internal drive. Do the same for the iMovie Events folder.

How can I burn a DVD of an iMovie 13 project using iDVD 7.1.2 version.

I have a late model iMac which came with iDVD. I use iMovie to make photo and movie projects and share them to iDVD to burn DVDs. I use these often and I love them, specially iDVD.
When Mavericks came out I updated and of course it changed iMovie. I just finished a photo project with music on iMovie and planned to transfer it to iDVD for burning DVD. This is a family project and I want to distribute copies to the rest of the family.
It turns out that I cannot use iDVD with the new iMovie version and/or Mavericks.
iDVD does not contain the buttons that it used to have on each theme in order to play the DVD.
I cannot drag the movie into iDVD.
What can I do so that I can use iDVD when I have an iMovie project to burn it on a DVD.
I can go back to the previous version of iMovie and still have Mavericks.
I do not know, I am lost. Why doesnt this work without any problems when updating the operting system. Apple should take into consideration all the previous applications etc when it makes an older computer able to update to more current system.
I appreciate any help offered.
Thank you

Export the slideshow out of iMovie via the File ➙ Share ➙ File menu option as a 480p Quicktime movie.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

Burning an iMovie 10 project using iDVD

I created a slideshow movie with a theme (no audio) by iMovie 10. I want to burn a looping DVD of this movie without an added DVD theme, using iDVD. How would I bypass the iDVD themes?

(From fellow poster Mishmumken: )
How to create a DVD in iDVD without menu (there are several options):
1. Easy: Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously. Disadvantage: The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy: If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well). Disadvantage: The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Roxio Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way": Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary: myDVDedit ( http://www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
Several of our resident experts also recommend this: there is a 3rd export/share option that give better results. That's to use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option. Then in iDVD go to the Media Browser and drag the movie into iDVD where you want it.
If you are using iMovie 9 see also this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5543?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Using IDVD to render Imovie project

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for