IDVD fix for High Sierra and for Mojave

Hey, good work mtanner 47. Thanks very much for posting that.

To test, I opened iDVD from an external disc where I had copied it there as a backup. To my surprise, the themes now seemed to be working properly (they weren't on my computer's drive) as you said, including the animated ones. I chose the Reflection White theme and populated the drop zones with photos and dragged in a movie. I then added chapter markers. Everything worked fine. I saved the project to my desktop and then saved it as a disc image. No problem with the encoding and the disc image played fine.

The only glitch that I found was when I went back to the desktop and opened the iDVD project that I had saved, the menu showed only a blank gray screen. No photos, titles, or movie button. I then clicked on the DVD Map button below the screen and clicked on the Movie icon within it. The main screen came up still showing a gray background but this time the title and the play movie buttons were displayed. No photos or animation, however. When I clicked on the movie button the movie did play fine. But when I exited the movie the main menu screen still showed blank gray, with only title and and movie buttons, and no photos or animation.

I didn't try any other themes, and I have to do more testing on this. The glitch about the blank gray screen on the saved iDVD project might be confined to the Reflection White theme. The iDVD project still was playable -- just showed a blank menu screen. I suppose that once you have a successful disc image the only need that you would have for the iDVD project itself is if you wanted to do more editing on the project. I wonder if I had archived it before saving whether that would have made any difference.

Thanks again for your post.

-- Rich

Whether archived or not archived, It did not help to move the iDVD project from my APFS main drive to the Max OS Extended (Journaled) external drive that I used to create the project. It still showed a blank gray screen when opened on the external drive. I tried a Save As to the external drive, but still no difference. Next time I will initially save the project to the external drive rather than to my desktop and see if that makes a difference.

-- Rich

For sure it's a bonus. I had pretty much given up on the animated themes on Mojave. Was using an older computer running El Capitan to burn DVDs. So thanks much.

I suspect that if the project is initially saved to the external drive it may display properly. If you could check to see whether your findings agree with mine about the blank screen, that would be much appreciated.

-- Rich

mtanner47,

Did you ever followup on the blank screen issue that occurred when opening a previously saved iDVD project, that we talked about earlier in the thread? If so, I would be interested in your findings.

-- Rich

>>I was really disappointed in Apple for dropping the ball on IDVD. It is the smoothest and the most reliable DVD creation program out. Trust me I have tried them all. At this point I am even trying to learn to make my own themes from scratch and not just use Apples themes. Now that I can keep IDVD up and running I will continue to use it. <<

Many are in the same situation as you. In our video labs, we have Macs that are "frozen" to 10.9.5. We use these for our video work. They run iDVD and iMovie HD 06 with no fuss. For Blu-rays, we use Toast.

Thank you mtanner 47. I copied my iDVD app to an external drive, opened it and was able to create and burn a DVD as I had previously been able to prior to upgrading to Mojave.

I did not burn a DVD yet, but moving to an external allowed all my themes to work again!

Thanks!