iDVD seems to lose/ignore chapter markers

I thought Apple had addressed many of the little glitches in iDVD, but you may wish to see if any of your chapter markers violate the so-called "chapter rules" that occasionally caused problems in earlier versions of iMovie/iDVD:

- don't put chapter markers within two seconds of the start or end of the timeline.

- don't put chapter markers within a transition.

- keep chapter markers more than two seconds from the end of a transition.

John

In addition to J. Keller's suggestion use iMovie's Share ➙ Media Browser menu option instead of the Share ➙ iDVD option. This will result in a higher quality final produce.

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 and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good and you can then burn to disk with Disk Utility at the slowest speed available to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatium, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

OT

I experienced the same thing this week. I don't think it's iDVD where you need to address this issue, it's in iMovie. The notations from J Keller should address it. FWIW, I addressed mine by deleting the chapter markers and putting them back in. iDVD will put your first chapter marker in automatically at the beginning. You could just put in two chapter markers if your first one will be right at the beginning, cause when you import, the first chapter marker will be give you three total chapters anyway.

When I add my movie with chapters to an iDVD project by dragging from the Media Browser pane it creates a single button in the menu. However, that button takes me to a sub menu that has a Play button and a Scene Selection button. The Scene Selection button takes me to the chapters.

If you want the Play button in the top menu of the iDVD project you may have to copy and paste them into the top menu from the submenus and after confirming the pasted links work delete the unnecessary sub menus.