Hello, I am new to iMovie and iDVD.
Following a manual's instructions, having made a DVD in iMovie, I commanded share>iDVD and waited 2 hours for iDVD to open with this project (which seems too long?), but the movie has no audio at all....
The original footage was MP4 from a Flip video camera.
Can anyone explain what is wrong and how to correct this? Thanks, Andy
iDVD '08, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Hi
There are several things to this
• Video Codec used - .mp4 is no specific video-codec but a Container (sort of folder) and can hold codecs iMovie can use or CAN NOT.
open the .mp4 file with QuickTime-Player - then
open Inspector [cmd+I] and read
- Video Codec/Format : nnnnnnnnnnnnn
- Frame Rate : YYYYYYYYYYYY
What does it say
• Then - How You go from iMovie to iDVD matters !
- I never use "Share to iDVD" as resulting DVD will lose lot's of quality
- I do - "Share to Media Browser" and as Large OR Medium (Never HD or other resolution as this too degrades the final DVD (downscaling is done badly)
- Large or Medium matters and sometimes Large result's to me in partial audio loss - so Medium is a safer resolution.
- I Always - Save as a DiskImage - Test this with DVD-player tool - then use Disk Util tool to burn it to DVD
I always
• set down burn speed to x4 or less = less burn errors = plays better and on more devices
• use High Quality DVDs - only Verbatim for me
• DVD-R - never DVD+/-RW or DVD+R - as the first usually don't work and the latter only on newer DVD-players
• SL-DVD - not DL-DVDs - my personal problem with my Macs inabillity to like these
Yours Bengt W
Thanks Bengt,
In reply to you, when I
open the .mp4 file with QuickTime-Player - then
open Inspector [cmd+I] and read, I get:
AVC Coding, 640 x 480, Millions
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44, 100 kHz
and
FPS 30
among other things, but nowhere does it say
- Video Codec/Format : nnnnnnnnnnnnn
or
- Frame Rate : YYYYYYYYYYYY
I read that iDVD can only recognise 16 bit audio. I don't know what my audio is, or how I change it if at all possible.
I will try your aadvice about "Share to Media Browser", although when I began it yesterday it said it would take 25 hours!!! so I aborted.
I got a Mac becasue I was led to beleive that these things were easier and smoother than Windows!!??
Yours, Andy
AVC Coding, 640 x 480, Millions
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
although when I began it yesterday it said it would take 25 hours!!! so I aborted.
A. iDVD - does this calculation very bad - can be much less (and even much more). I don't look at it.
B. When things goes ridiculously slow it use to be due to (for me)
• Less than 25Gb free space on START-UP Hard Disk (others do not count)
• using material iDVD or iMovie can't use as is e.g. video-codecs, audio and photo file formats
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
BTW - I try to not Panic/Force Quit as much possibly - as this build up small errors in pref files and elsewhere to finally result in a Major Disaster.
Yours Bengt W
no audio in iDVD when created by iMovie ??
