I am having a very annoying problem. I made a movie in Final Cut Express, exported to .mov and am trying to burn it in iDVD. I have been burning since Thursday. It says that it has burnt correctly, but a little over half way through a 2.5 hour movie it stops. It has stopped in different spots, but within a 30 minute area. I have checked the video in Final Cut Express. I have re-saved the project several times. I am confused. Thanks!
Sorry, I will put this in iDVD, not Final Cut 🙂
It could be that your movie is too long.
2 hours is the recommended maximum for iDVD.
Wow, that is not very long. So many of my movies are much longer.
Do you have any ideas on what program would be a better fit? Thanks.
I think it would be wise to make your videos shorter for several reasons.
The professional cinema has difficulty holding an audience's attention for a couple of hours . . . amateurs have less chance than a snowball in Hades . . . from my experience, very few non-professional film makers can even maintain interest for 5 minutes. Invariably Long = Boring
A single layer DVD can only produce videos up to an hour in good quality . . . any longer and the bit rate is reduced along with the optical quality.
To answer your specific question, Toast or DVD Studio Pro.
Ian R. Brown wrote:
from my experience, very few non-professional film makers can even maintain interest for 5 minutes. Invariably Long = Boring
Reminds me of a joke:
Home video is in direct competition with sleeping tablets. 🙂
Al
Re-reading your original post, It appears that you created a DVD successfully but there are playback problems in parts.
One cause of bad playback such as dropped frames or freezing can be the use of too fast a burn speed.
Fast burn speeds can lead to unreliable DVDs and I would imagine this problem is exacerbated by long DVDs.
Never burn faster than 4x and preferably slower.
iDVD Preferences.
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