idvd help

That's how iDVD works when you have chapters. Each chapter plays by itself and when over dumps you back at the Chapter selection menu.

When you add a movie with chapters in it two menus are created in iDVD: 1 - the top menu with the play button for the entire move and a button to take you to the chapter selection menu. Just play the full movie from the main menu to get it all continuously.

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Now I see what you're doing. If you want to have all clips sequentially without pause create a slideshow in iDVD and add the clips to it. Select any slide duration time except manual. Do not select a transition.

This will be like you've joined all of the clips into one video file. Be aware that if you keep the individual clips in the menu you will be doubling the playing time of the project so make sure the total playing time is less than 120 minutes, including menu.

In iMovie you can add chapter markers to a movie. They can't be at the beginning of the movie or within 2 seconds of a transition. When that movie is added to iDVD the main menu will incluce a button to play the video from start to finish and a button to go to a second menu with each chapter having a play button:

Hi

or if You want my way of saying the very same - Old Toad's description is 100% - but may be I use another word and twist to it that might be of help.

If not - just skipp it - no offence 😉

Play all resp one chapter at a time

Play All Button

1. There are NO - Play All - button in any version of iDVD

2. It can be faked in several ways

Easiest and most fault proof way is to make a doublet movie containing All and with

Chapters set to match. It will take up x2 space but is easy to understand and produce.

Cons: Tried this in iMovie’11 by Exporting out each part as a full Quality QT.mov then Importing back into new events and putting these into a new project (Play All project). Resulting DVD had Audio that was OK (as parts) - BUT the picture was very bad and standing photo were cut of in hight. So the Play All movie has to be created from same material and exactly in the same way as the individual parts + then Chapters has to be set to match.

It's said that one can put all movies into a Photo/SlideShow and this will also

give the function of a Play All button - Tested - and ONE HAS TO un-cheque - Scale pictures to TV-Safe area else it will be a black frame all around and a small picture !

Mike Evangelist1

You might be able to get close to what you want by using a slideshow in iDVD. (It's not widely known, but you can put videos in a slideshow.) If you set the slide duration to manual, playback will pause after each movie/slide, and you can continue with the 'next' button.

3. Using another program to do this e.g.. Roxio Toast™ where there is a Play All button option.

Summary

a. Making a Play All movie with same care as the individual Part movies - gives a very Good Result

b. Using Roxio Toast™ - also an usable way to go

Yours Bengt W