Visual Problems in iDVD

I've been using iDVD to burn home movies for the past three years. For the first two years its worked great, but for the last year I've been having this problem:
I can import iMovie/Quicktime movies into iDVD. But when I choose a theme, instead of getting a background, all I get is black. I can still see whatever title I've typed in and the button to click to play the movie. When I play it, I can hear audio/music if it's there, and I can use the menus. The drop zones don't work, either.
Any ideas? Please help me!

For the first two years its worked great, but for the last year I've been having this problem ..
You've posted to the iDVD '08 forum and iDVD '08 hasn't been around for three years.
Did you upgrade to the iLife '08 applications and THAT is when the problem started or what?
What version of iDVD are you trying to use?

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Wow, nobody qualified to help me with this problem?
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STUDENT WITH VISUAL PROBLEMS

Dear Adobe,
currently I'm working in a school with young people of 18 years old. The students all study graphic design and learn indesign, photoshop and illustrator. All of our students have a disability (physically or autism). One of them has a serious problem with his eyes. For example, when he's working in Indesign he can't see the hairlines- and the design he makes are not good as a result. Can we adjust settings, line-thickness or anything? (Zooming doesn't do it) Hopefully we can find a sollution because otherwise he will fail this year's course. greetings Bert

I think you're missing the point. We are evaluating if the student can
stay at the school because his visus-problems are so big (multiple
problems-not only hairlines). So now we are asking for help, if you
know a sollution, I would like to hear it.
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Hairlines? What is their use?
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And why cannot his designs avoid the use of hairlines? Seems rather
harsh to fail a student for the inability to avoid the use of
hairlines.
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Your not alone. I just spent over a week trying to
burn a project. I have a new iMac and the latest
iLife.....thought I'd be set for awhile however while
trying many different possible solutions for my
problem have spent the last week dancing around
iMovie bugs, iDVD bugs and Quicktime bugs forcing me
to do "workarounds" which take extra time again. I
like alot of things about Apple however people pay
for a workable product and iLife should not cause
people this much pain. I've used software that is 98%
bug-free so I know it can be done but Apple does'nt
seem to be willing to test its software thouroughly
enough on a wide variety of systems and different
circumstances to eliminate the bugs....and so we
....its faithful followers end up being its
"bug-testers". Perhaps it also has to do with the
desire to "pump-out" new versions every 9-16 months
however I would much prefer to wait longer and even
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everything you can to make sure they dont come up
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all its users ....tending to dismiss the
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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
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• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
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While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Last resort: from Craig: Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
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• DVD-R (Single layer)
• Burn speed set to x1
• minimum of 25Gb free space on internal/start-up hard disk
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1. To me DivX is a stranged format. I use only streamingDV QT.mov files as in iMovie
I drop the movie project icon into iDVD.
I would convert them to this.
2. iDVD doesn't care about Mb or Gbs on file size - only minutes in total including menu.
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