iDVD Modified Asset Warning

Hi

If I select cancel it doesn't do anything. If I select update it makes it so that all my chapters go to the same spot.

YES - that's a 100% description of the iDVD BUG ! ! !

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 A

- Start a brand new iDVD project.

Medicine B

- open iDVD project - Clear Assets !

(this medicine I'm told works - I never use it - I re-do and don't look back to imovie/FinalCut.)

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)

Yours Bengt W

OT

Then you'll have apply Medicine A. Also:

Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality final product:

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.

Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

So the playing time is longer than 120 minutes. 😟

Be sure to only burn 2-3 at in a row and then let the drive cool for about 20 minutes. Otherwise you could burn out the laser. Also burn at 4X or slower. You might be better off seeing if you can find an outfit that would duplicate them for you. Should be much quicker.

I was hoping this would be my solution. But sadly it did not work. I went to File - save as disc image and there yet again was this same horrible message about assets being changed. I have not changed any assets. Yes I could do the whole project again in iMovie and ensure my chapter markers are more than 2 seconds from a transition, but it is a heap of work which I really do not want to do. Is there any other way around this or not? Incidentally it would have been helpful if iMovie gave some warning when I placed the chapter markers in the first place. It is really annoying to only find this out when one has created the idvd and is ready to burn. Peter.