Cant burn my first DVD

Hi bandamy:

Welcome to the discussions and Happy Thanksgiving! 😉

First, before you try any major things, do a disk repair. If you do not know how, watch this cool little movie

Sue

iMac PPC G5 20, iMac 17 Flat Panel G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 G RAM all around

made a 10 minute slideshow with music on Imovie and
burned it to DVD using IDVD....tried to play it in
DVD player and on the apple and I get the message

"supported disc not avaliable"

I burned it on a Fuji DVD-RW, seemed to work, chose
the region (1) and this is all I get

I'm not sure where you got/saw the Region info - discs created by iDVD are 'region free'. (Edit: You said you had a new Powerbook - was this the first time you ran the DVD Player application? That may be the reason you had to select a region. But again, iDVD created discs are 'region free'.)

Since you are using iDVD 5, why not create a disk image first and see how that plays in Apple's DVD Player application. If that plays OK we can give you the easy instructions to use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the image to a DVD in the correct way to make it play in a DVD player.

OK, Im looking at the burned DVD and the files are
.BUP, .IFO, and .FOB

is this right?

Yes. The VIDEO_TS folder should contain those files. The AUDIO_TS folder will be empty.

You should be able to open Apple's DVD Player application in your Applications folder and play that VIDEO_TS folder. Give it a try.

If it works, (and was a disk image .img file) you can burn the disk image file to a DVD with Disk Utility. (There are several versions around, but this should work for you.) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1884.html Burning a disk image on a CD or DVD

Or see also http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006 Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X

burned it on a Fuji DVD-RW

Try in on a DVD-R or use "Save as Disk Image"

guess this is the standard way of making DVDs after using Imovie to create a project?

Well I think most people skip the image route, but you'll find most of the "regular" iDVD users making a disk image before burning. I always do! That way you can "test drive" the image with the Apple DVD player, and burn separately. It may seem like adding a step, but sometimes two small steps are easier than one giant leap. Especially if something ever goes awry....


John B.

G5dual2GHz, 550TiBook, 9600>G3Upgraded Mac OS X (10.4.2) 1TB+ Storage

I guess this is the standard way of making DVDs after
using Imovie to create a project? If Im going about
it the long way pls advise...

again thanks for the help this is a great resource.

Actually, you can make a disk image right out of iDVD 5 as I mentioned in my first message to you. Instead of 'burning' to a DVD you 'burn' a disk image of that DVD first, verify the disk image plays the way you want it to with the DVD Player application, and then, use Disk Utility to burn that disk image to a writable DVD.

Creating the disk image first is an extra step, and takes a little long to produce the finished DVD, but I certainly think the extra step is worth it.

Glad to have been of help.