How to burn DVD in iMovie 10

Sigh. I posted "too soon" on Feb 9. . . everything worked out exaclty as James Bear and Adam Cook had predicted. I successfully shared my iMovie project to a new "file" folder. And here's the timing sequence:

• After about 1 hour the blue activity indicator dial appeared.
• After about 3 hours, the "file" that was being created ("shared" from iMovie) appeared in the correct folder. It appeared as a greyed-out item (~1 Mb) which meant it was being created but not available for use.
• After about 14 hours, the iMovie project was fully "shared" (converted) to a stand-alone file (4.1 Mb), ready for use in iDVD.

I've learned that everything in iMovie takes a lot longer than I expected. Armed with my new virture of patience, I now will try my hand at iDVD.

THANKS to everyone who helped.

Thanks Alan.

Was just researching this problem and found your solution. I have a similar Mac set up to you having recently upgraded to OS 10.9.1 and had to upgrade the other files that needed upgrading as a result, including imovie only to find it wont burn to dvd. I found that if I went to the finder location of the Mpeg 4 video I could burn it to a dvd but could not play it on anything other than a mac or pc.

On reading your response I checked and found I still had iDVD and it still worked so followed your instructions and yes it worked. I now have a DVD copy of a video that works in a relatively old (>10yrs) DVD player. The quality is however not as good. I checked the file sizes and found the original 4.63 GB Mpeg4 file was reduced to 2.95 GB video (not sure what format it actually is). Is this your experience as well and is there a way to retain the quality. Thanks again

I just switched from Windows to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. As I learned, iDVD is no longer bundled as part of the iLife package. I used a third party DVD burning software to export and burn iMovie to DVD.

the newer macs don't come with idvd. you can't get it anymore

IDVD remains very popular, and it's easy to get.

IDVD is readily available as part of iLife 08 or iLife 09 you can buy these on Amazon or eBay.

What version of iDVD are you guys using?

I'm with you. All I had to do was,

1. Open iMovie
2. Share my video as a file
3. Open my documents
4. Right click the file I wanted
5. Click burn once a blank disk was in
6. Enjoy on the big screen

To burn a DVD with iDVD from the latest version of iMovie, you have to export the movie using the Export button and select 480p as the size. Open iDVD and start a new project, then drag that exported movie file into the iDVD menu window, avoiding any drop zones you see.

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

the newer macs don't come with idvd. you can't get it anymore

Did you wait for the activity indicator to finish in step 4? How many minutes long is your project?

In the Finder, if you left-click on the video you produced in the first 4 steps, then with the video selected hit the spacebar, what happens? If it doesn't begn to play in Finder, then something is wrong with the iMovie export. It looks like you are either not waiting for iMovie to finish creating the MP4 file or it is somehow failing.

Hi MVX

All you do is right (or control) click on the file iMovielibrary.library. You'll get a menu that includes "open package contents." Select it and you'll see folders for each movie project. Select the folder you want and inside it will be a .mov file and that's the one you want.

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

Do you have MacKeeper installed? If so, you will need to uninstall it. After that, you will need to re-install iMovie.

MacKeeper disables all the sharing functions of the iMovie.

Select Share to file and in the window that opens select 480p in the size drop down.

they don't make idvd anymore. they haven't for a few years now