how do you burn a dvd from quicktime

Hi

FCE/P to iDVD

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)

Encoding

• I use Pro Quality encoding

Brand and type of DVDs used

• I use Verbatim

• I use DVD-R

Burn speed set

• I set down this to x4 (or x1)

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

Where do you disable Quicksilver and quikkeys?

You must have those two application installed before you can disable. If you don't have them installed then you can ignore that part of Bengt's post.

OT

As Old Toad so very helpful fill in

- It was copied from another user-post and might most probably not apply to You at all

- Quicksilver and Quikkeys was very interesting some Years ago

- Have not seen it lately.

Also is streaming dv aan ?

Don't really understand - StreamingDV is a Video-Codec - I get this from my miniDV tape Camera and it is accepted 100% in iMovie.

Is it free?

- Well ? - QuickTime Pro was some $ extra - and to me worth every penny.

Without Pro (code-key) I don't think QT-player can convert to this.

Can you encode in quicktime?

- Don't really understand - from what to what ?

- To the code needed to burn to a Video-DVD - NO - To do this You need a DVD authoring program as iDVD

I used to have pro but something happened to the update.

- There are at least two versions of QuickTime-player

I use

- QT-pro 7.7 - and -

- QT 10.0

Never found out what QT 10.0 can or can not do. I rely totally on - QT-pro 7.7

See if You can find Your original QT-pro code-key and install it again 🙂

Yours - trying to be of any help - Bengt W

No. To burn a video DVD one must use a video DVD authoring application like iDVD. QT Pro does not have any disc burning capabilities.

There are free - but very very simple alternative to iDVD (in real no good alt) but to just get a movie onto a DVD as a Video-DVD.

If there is no iDVD on Your Mac (and it's not on newer Macs as Apple discarded it) then You need a program that can do this.

Your Mac can burn CDs and DVDs - BUT DVD as Data-DVDs not as Video-DVDs - they need a program to be encoded and STRUCTURED as such.

• iDVD is part of the boxed version of iLife'11 and can only be bought outside Apple as on Amazon and e-bay

• DVD Studio pro - Part of FinalCut Studio Pro bundle - this to has expired and can only be bought second handed. (High price and tough learning Curve - but best ever done.)

• Roxio Toast™- Not as elegant as iDVD - but has many other positive additions (I like it as 10-Pro incl BD-component) (now version 11)

• FinalCut Pro-X - which also can burn to DVD but without any nice themes.

• Burn- Very simple - Just for doing a plain Video-DVD

Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html

• Free DVD Creator.app - free from Apple Store

AppleMan1958

You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.

Yours Bengt W

A simple way to do this is using with DVD Creator.

http://www.appgeeker.com/convert/burn-mov-to-dvd.html

It accepts all of file format (video/audio/image/. I am using this for my educational movie making/conversion with various formats. And, it has plenty of template menus to choose from for DVD navigation.

I haven't use Roxio Toast or FinalCut Pro-X as Bengt mentioned above, so I can't comment more about them. DVD Creator does just work for me.