iDVD video encode error when burning to DVD

Possible help here:

iDVD: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow from Final Cut Pro

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179?viewlocale=en_US

Final Cut Express: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow for iDVD at

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1611

and

Preparing your Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro movie to work with iDVD at

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6652.html

I am having the same problem...The video plays great in iDVD, no bad links, everything looks fine on my iMac...But when I try to burn the video with my attached superdrive, I get the same error! Let me know if you or someone here comes up wih a solution....

Hi

NO ! ---> QuickTime Conversion ! ! !

Just save / export as a Quicktime.mov and drop this into iDVD.

• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk > 25GB for interlaced SD-video material and about 4-5 times more if HD material is used. This space can not be utilized on other devices - it must be just here on the boot drive.

Yours Bengt W

The way from FCE or FCP has been the same for me for lot's of years since FinalCut 1.2.5 I think (was no Express or Pro then)

And QuickTime Conversion never worked for me - I guess You were lucky two years ago.

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)

Just double click on the Hard Disk icon (top right on DeskTop) and read on bottom part of this windows frame e.g,

( in English - 1 of 14 selected, 38.24 GB FREE)

Encoding

• I use Pro Quality encoding if material (video + menu) exceeds 40 minutes ! if less I use Best Performances

Brand and type of DVDs used

• I use Verbatim

• I use DVD-R

Burn speed set

• I set down this to x4 (or x1) - BEST IS NOT BEST at all only fastest and results in Maximum amount of BURN ERRORS !

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

I had the same issue. I resolved it.

I did 2 things. resaved my mp4 as mov files using iMovie.

I also changed the frame rates to match.

Converting the mov basically did the trick I believe.