reburn an existing idvd project file

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akym Author

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reburn an existing idvd project file

how do I reburn an existing idvd project to disk?

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 4:50 PM

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Old Toad

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Dec 28, 2021 10:26 AM in response to akym

You can't with Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey. You'll have to revert your system to High Sierra or earlier for full compatibility.

If you have a copy of the video DVD disc that you crested with the iDVD project file you can duplicate it by creating a disk image of the disc and then burning the disk image to disc via the Finder.

Or, if you still have the original source materials you can create a new project with one of the video DVD authoring apps in the App Store.

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akym Author

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Dec 28, 2021 6:01 PM in response to Old Toad

Old, I still have the iMac with OS 10.6.8 and iDvd6 intact. I still use it for creating new dvds from home film. Shouldn't I just be able to open an original project idvd file and hit the burn button? It's asking for alot of linkages to be created.

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Old Toad

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Dec 29, 2021 9:28 AM in response to akym

Yes, you should. However, the linkages might be to the original source files which are often not in the iDVD project package but somewhere else on the hard drive and linked to. The only iDVD project packages that contain all of the source files are those "archived" project files.

Therefore, I'm guessing iDVD can't find the original source files used in the project.

Can you post screenshots of the messages you're getting from iDVD?

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akym Author

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Jan 1, 2022 10:29 AM in response to Old Toad

Yes, my dilemma was reestablishing all the links since I moved around the original source files from my original project date.

Problem I'm having now with the final dvd is it starts pixelating and freezing after playing halfway through (approx. 1h20min of full 4.5G file) on the family room cd/dvd player. I've burned the disk 3 times in idvd alternating between Best Quality and Best Performance and burn speed. No issues experienced when tested on iMac with DVD player.

I've read alot of the feedback regarding Dvd quality, but I'm using TDK's which usually product high quality audio and video necessities.

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Old Toad

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Jan 2, 2022 2:55 PM in response to akym

What are you using to recreate and burn the disc?

Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty 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 the disk image to disk 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 the iDVD forums.

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akym Author

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Jan 2, 2022 7:43 PM in response to Old Toad

After I'm done editing my movie in iMovie6, I share it to iDvd6 and follow the iDvd prompts to create the menu pages and complete the burn. I haven't been using disk utility to burn the dvd.

The TDK blank disks had never failed me until recently and I never heard of them going bad with age. In audio recording practices, they were held at the same quality level as Maxell.

Bye the way, Happy New Year and thanks for all the help.

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akym Author

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Jan 15, 2022 4:39 PM in response to Old Toad

Mr. Toad,

So I saved the .idvdproject as an .img file and then burned it at 2x speed using Disk Utility. The dvd disk had the .img file with the Audio TS and VideoTS files within it. Once the .img file mounted, my video played fine through Dvd Player on the iMac.

However the Yamaha Dvd-S1700 player in the family room did not recognize the disk and didn't play the video.

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Old Toad

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Jan 16, 2022 8:41 AM in response to akym

That Yahama is new enough to be able to play both DVD- and DVD+ discs so that's not the issue.

You might try using one of the demo video DVD authoring apps from the App Store to burn a disc and see if it will play in your player. Go to the App Store and search for "video DVD".

If you're using both still photos and videos in the project there's only one app that I've found that can use both: Wondershare DVD Creator. All others that I tried only take video files.

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akym Author

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Jan 17, 2022 1:54 PM in response to Old Toad

I don't think I can download any App Store apps onto my iMac iOS 10.6 machine used for the imovie and idvd creation. It's not been upgraded in years and Apple doesn't support legacy iOs'.

For ***** and giggles, I'm going to try burning onto the forum's recommended Verbatim Dvds to see if it performs over the TDKs I've been using. Hopefully the fix is that simple.

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