On my iMAC with Mountain Lion, I exported a Video from iPhoto to the desktop, put it into a burn folder, and burned it to a DVD. When I open the Video on the the DVD, it loads as DSCN0097.AIV. When I click on the play button, I can see the progress line moving but it does not show the Movie. What did I do wrong?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
iPhoto exported video is a QuickTime Movie and can only be played by a device using QT - if you want to play in a DVD player you need authoring software that creates the correct format for your DVD palyer - iDVD is one if you have it - Toast and othera are available - google will give you some ideas
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iPhoto exported video is a QuickTime Movie and can only be played by a device using QT - if you want to play in a DVD player you need authoring software that creates the correct format for your DVD palyer - iDVD is one if you have it - Toast and othera are available - google will give you some ideas
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You need a vided DVD authoring applicatin like iDVD. If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailier like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
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.
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I have an iLife Disk '09 that came with the Snowleopard Software package. It has iDVD on it. Could I download it from there? And how would I do it?
I have an iLife Disk '09 that came with the Snowleopard Software package. It has iDVD on it. Could I download it from there? And how would I do it?
Please ignore my last reply. You already answered my question in great detail. I will try to follow your instructions. Thank you very much for your advice.
Video does not play from DVD
