How to burn DVD in iMovie 10

I normally just share as a file to my desktop in the quality that I want (1080P, takes a little longer but worth it) and then right click from there and click "burn to disk." You can see the progress of the save in iMovie near the share box.

I'm desperate for help here! I am creating a slideshow composed of small videos and pictures for my daughter's birthday (32 minutes in total). I have followed all steps, and when the file is exported from iMovie it takes some time. Once it tells me completed, I try and insert the file into iDVD but it tells me it isn't supported.

When I click on the exported file's details, it tells me there are no bytes..meaning the file is empty. What do I do?? Thank you in advance!

Well, when I arrived at step 5, I discovered that the only part of the iMovie project that was exported was whatever still image was on the viewing window in iMovie! Furthermore, that was a .mov file!

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Go to File>Share>File, choose the size (probably should choose either SD or Large) then click Next, give it a name, then click Save.

Go to iDVD. Go to File>Import>Video and select the file you just created. It will bring the video into your iDVD project.

This was always the way I did it in the previous version of iMovie. Works just fine.

If a movie is not selected, the Share button will be greyed out. Select a movie, then click Share.

I'm trying to burn a DVD also using iMovie 10 (2013) on a new driveless MacBook Pro, which does not come with iDVD. I am able to select the project which is listed in iMovie Library, then click share (among import, create, share buttons at top of iMovie), and choose "File." Once that was done, an MP4 of my movie shows up in my Documents folder. When I right click, there is a burn to disc option, but when I click it says the disc will be playable on a Mac or Windows PC. No good. I'll report back if I find a solution.

A f%$% manual would be nice. The iMovie documentation here on the site is outdated and sends you looking for iDVD.

I've now also spent the better part of two days trying to convert a video from tape to digital in iMovie and then burn a dvd. And I agree that a manual would be nice for iMovie 10. In the meantime, here's what ended up working for me:

Instead of sharing the movie and creating another mpeg-4 file, I opened the package contents of the iMovie Library.

Then I selected the project, opened the folder called Original Media and in there is a .mov file which is the movie I wanted to burn.

Now, the rest worked because I have Toast Titanium: I right clicked on the .mov file and one option was "Toast It" which I did. The rest is simply using Toast to create a dvd which can be played on both computers and a regular machine wired into a TV.

When I used share and created an mp4 file, Toast wouldn't accept it. That seems to be another of iMovie 10's endearing features, that it creates files of the right types that can't be read by other applications that accept those files. So I don't know who knows why this was so, but I'm happy that I could finally get a finished product and I hope this might help others until Apple does some real improving of iMovie 10.

Manual is here:

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/

Thank you, Alan. A good chunk of the time I spent was looking for a manual. Everything I saw through the usual search was at least 5 years old.

No problem. I simply did a Google search for "iMovie help" (without the quotes) and that was the third result.

I have already turned to the help section and tried what's been listed above; still no results. In the projects window, I have one movie that I have queued in the "creating movie", and it is not saving it to a movie file. It does create an mp4, which has audio only. The manual says nothing about burning a dvd that I can find, rather the only reference to dvd is importing directly from camera to dvd. I also do not have idvd.

What a mess. I'm really sorry I upgraded so far. Any new suggestions would be most welcome.

I'm not sure why you don't have iDVD, since I think it comes with every system. In addition to taking a movie file and burning it to a DVD via Toast, I tried opening iDVD and using Magic DVD. That gives you a screen where you can drop a movie file and it looked like most of the files I had would work that way.

Next time I need to burn a dvd, I'm going to try that method.

And I agree that the manual doesn't seem very detailed or complete.

I'd love to try Toast, but I can't even save this to a file. The only functioning "exports" are to youtube and all that. It just endlessly promises it's going to make it and sends it to the cloud anyway.

I'll keep trying. I've put too much work into this project to quit. I will keep an eye on this thread in case someone has ideas.

RuffiansRide, I hope that you get an answer. I am trying to burn some DVDs for my family's hristmas party tomorrow and didn't think it would be so complicated with iMovie. I'll let you know if I figure something out, but I hope to get an answer soon.