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Hey People,
Using Toast 7, I get the error that 1:25 min. won't fit on a single layer Verbatim. ???
It is an export from FCE with lots of editing if that makes a difference.
iDVD is not much use; it spits out blank disks during multiplexing stage but pretends to keep burning,
a common problem I know but I have never been able to fix it.
Thanks for any insight,
Al
iMac G4, MBPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Hi
This is my notes on first part - From FC to iDVD (or Toast™)
FCE/P to iDVD
Several things
• How to go from FCE/P to iDVD
• Free space on Start-up hard disk
• Encoding
• Brand and type of DVDs used
• Burn speed set
• iDVD BUG
• Chapters
How to go from FCE/P to iDVD I do
• Disable Screen and Energy saver
• IMPORTANT --> FIRST in FinalCut - Mix Down Audio under Sequence Menu / Render Only / Mix-down
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Select with Mark - Chapter Mark
• Not as Self-Contained (not important but saves time and space)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (IMPORTANT)
This QT.mov file I import into iDVD from within iDVD.
Free space on Start-up hard disk
I set a minimum of 25GB (for Mac OS and iDVDs temp files)
Encoding
• I use Pro Quality encoding
Brand and type of DVDs used
• I use Verbatim
• I use DVD-R
Burn speed set
• I set down this to x4 (or x1)
iDVD BUG
• One can not go back to movie-project for any alterations and then go back to
the iDVD project. It will notice and ask You to either Up-date or Cancel. Neither
of them will work.
Medicine - Start a brand new iDVD project.
Use of Chapters
• I only use a to z and 0 to 9 in naming them. NO other symbol/letter !
• NO Chapter-mark at very beginning - iDVD NEEDS TO set this by it self
• No Chapter marks in or within two seconds from a transition
(Way around this last one - Export movie as QT full quality and NO Chapter marks
Import this into a new Movie-project and now You are free to set C-Ms where You want
them except at very beginning - still)
Material used to build movie
• video - I use streamingDV (or convert all other to this e.g. .mp4, .avi, .wmv etc)
• audio - I use .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or from Audio-CD (44.1kHz) - no .mp3 or direct from iTunes
• photos - I use .jpg - no .bmp etc
Trash iDVD pref. file and run Repair Permissions - and have a re-try.
from post ??
May not be relevant, but I had the same problem with iDVD, where burned DVDs showed a green screen. It was cured by quitting Quicksilver and Quickeys as well as disabling sleep and screen-saving
Yours Bengt W
Well I finally got iDVD to burn a disk and what does it do ? It burns it in 16 x9 ratio even though it was exported as 4 x 3!!!!! Well at least it burned something. Apparently not enough HD space was the culprit as I trashed a bunch of stuff so I thank you for going into detail about that. SO I am going to mark this as solved, I think the prob was disk space and what I had was not enough .
Thanks for all Bengt.
Al
There are things about 4x3
• When You start a brand new iDVD project You've to select in what standard
first here
also see here
then Select Project info {Shift+cmd+I}
If You change to a 16x9 menu - You have to change back to 4x3
Yours Bengt W
What happened was I was choosing a "favorite" previous DVD template and that fav was a 16x9.
So choosing a different one gave me 4x3.
All good.
Burning DVD's is a real experience where so many places things can go wrong.
It's looking more and more like not having enough disk space was the main problem.
THanks for all your help ....
Al
One hour 25 minutes won't fit on a single layer
