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I shared an Imovie to Idvd and burned a DVD R, but I did not get any sound. does anyone know why?

I shared an Imovie to Idvd and burned a DVD R, but I did not get any sound. does anyone know why?

iDVD '08, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 6:35 PM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2012 11:04 PM

Hi



No audio on DVD disc.

User uploaded file



Most common origin.


1. Imported audio from iTunes.

• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)

• Use this in Your movie project


2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)


3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large

large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.


Minuscular - - 176x144

Mobile - - - - - 480x360

Medium - - - - 640x480

Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540

HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720


4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.

• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)


5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why

Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In


6. Ed Hanna

Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix


Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.


That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.


7. GarageBand fix.

In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)

(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Before burning the DVD.

• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)

• Double click on the .img file

• Test it with Apple DVD-player


If it’s OK then make Your DVD.

Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)

• In iDVD 08 - or - 09

• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application

• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it


Yours Bengt W

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Dec 3, 2012 11:04 PM in response to roger951

Hi



No audio on DVD disc.

User uploaded file



Most common origin.


1. Imported audio from iTunes.

• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)

• Use this in Your movie project


2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)


3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large

large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.


Minuscular - - 176x144

Mobile - - - - - 480x360

Medium - - - - 640x480

Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540

HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720


4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.

• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)


5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why

Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In


6. Ed Hanna

Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix


Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.


That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.


7. GarageBand fix.

In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)

(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Before burning the DVD.

• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)

• Double click on the .img file

• Test it with Apple DVD-player


If it’s OK then make Your DVD.

Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)

• In iDVD 08 - or - 09

• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application

• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it


Yours Bengt W

Dec 5, 2012 1:13 PM in response to roger951

🙂I have found another reason for the sound not accompanying the iMOVIE in iDVD. I have not tried this yet, but it might be helpful to the community.

In the iDVD Manual it states "Important: Video footage must be recorded using 16-bit audio in order to be burned correctly to a disc using iDVD. Check your camera's manual for instructionsabout setting the audio bit rate and depth."

I checked my camera and it was set on 12-bit.

I shared an Imovie to Idvd and burned a DVD R, but I did not get any sound. does anyone know why?

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