Why Have Apple Discontinued iDVD

I just went over to the Apple App Store and there were over 40 DVD creating applications; some of which are free. I have no experience with any of them. I wish I knew of some place you could go to find a good comparision of these apps, but I don't know of any such place. All you have to go with are the 'Star Ratings' and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac? How do I get it and how do I install it?

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3673

There is no adequate substitute for iDVD.

Only discovered this today while setting up a new MacBook.

If you are still within your 15 day return period. Call Apple they will sent out iDVD at no charge. (There are no realistic substitutes.)

Nicely explain that you may return the computer without iDVD. That usually does the trick. You MUST speak to a senior advisor to get a free copy. The first tier people cannot do it.

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If that doesn't work you can purchase iLife 11 (or iLife 09) (includes iDVD) on disk.

IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U

http://dealmac.com/lw/artclick.html?1,527850,1872219

This is one of the nicest, easy-to-use, DVD writing tool available, and I use this all the time when authoring DVDs for shows

IDVD remains very popular. It is tested with new Macintoshes and new operating systems.

Is their an alternative, that links to iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes and has multiple Themes the quality of iDVD?

No. Buy iDVD.

excellent info, thanks, ****** me off about apple, I've always used iDVD (iMac, Mac 21 and now Mac 27), just tried to upload from my iLife 08, didn't work, will trying doing what you mentioned

That is definitely not true. While iDVD continues to load properly, a dvd will never be finished and continues to load. In all the years i've used iDVD, I've never seen this happen until I upgraded to Maverick. The fact that they continue to upgrade everything else but iDVD is really sad and is quite a shame.

iDVD 7 works very well for me with Mavericks. Are you saying that iDVD when launched doesn't complete the launch? Explain exactly what you're experiencing. Have you run Disk Utiltiy to repair disk permissions? What version of iDVD do you have?

The fact that they continue to upgrade everything else but iDVD is really sad and is quite a shame.

Since Apple is no longer including optical drives in its new Macs it sees no reason to continue development of iDVD.

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It launches fine but then when i burn the dvd, it acts like it finishes normally then the blue bar is all the way up and says finishing and then ejects the DVD yet the DVD is still blank and iDVD says it's still burning. I am using the latest version. I have not tried permissions yet. Though I've done it a few times this past week, but I guess I can try again.

As for the 2nd part, that's not a smart move unless they are trying to make the mac products cheaper, but even at that, people can easily use external drives to burn their dvds as well.

Apple wants you to use the Cloud. Best advice I got, bought old version of iLife 11 and loaded only the iDVD off of it. Works perfect on my new 27" Mac, just like the before on my Mac. Still makes me made they dropped iDVD, didn't realize it until I set up the computer. Oh you have to back date your computers internal date to load the old version, once done set it back to the present date.

Here is a screenshot of what it keeps doing when it burns a DVD. Roxio Toast is telling me I don't even have a DVD burner when I do.

Have you tried saving the project as a Disk Image first and then burn the disk image with Disk Utility?

Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:

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, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is 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.

Burning from Disk Utility may be more successful than directly from iDVD.

Get a cleaning disk, the kind with brushes and does NOT use any liquid, and give that a try.