Q: What is the best way to get from imovie 9.0.9 to idvd
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Dec 4, 2014 1:30 PMby Old Toad,Use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option with Size = Medium or Large.
Open iDVD, select a theme, go to the Media Browser/Movies pane in iDVD and drag the movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality 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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Dec 5, 2014 9:46 AMby Gus1,Thanks for this.
I have a problem with "Use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option with Size = Medium or Large." It would appear that in iMovie 9.0.9
that there is not option to share in this way.
The share options I have are "theater, email, iTunes, youtube, Facebook, vimeo, CNN, and file"
When I chose "file", I lost the chapters.
I shared to itunes, and went from there to idvd, but the video quality isn't as good as it is in iMovie!
Thoughts, and thanks
Angus
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Dec 6, 2014 6:57 PMby Gus1,Thanks for this.
I have a problem with "Use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option with Size = Medium or Large." It would appear that in iMovie 9.0.9
that there is not option to share in this way.
The share options I have are "theater, email, iTunes, youtube, Facebook, vimeo, CNN, and file"
When I chose "file", I lost the chapters.
I shared to itunes, and went from there to idvd, but the video quality isn't as good as it is in iMovie!
Thought
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Dec 6, 2014 7:04 PMby Gus1,Hi again.
First, I'd like to thank you for your help. Everything burned successfully, chapter markers included!
Now, my problem is that the same video that I posted (privately) on youtube, is of a way better video quality than what is on the dvd. And in iMovie on my computer screen the quality is also much much higher than when it goes onto a DVD.
Is this the norm? If so, maybe Apple is right in saying that DVD players are dead! I don't have a blu ray player, though, and I'm a musician, not a technically oriented person, so I don't know the answers!
Angus
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Dec 10, 2014 2:54 AMby Bengt Wärleby,Hi
Just a thought and my experience of this.
Higher resolution - doesn't to me - result in a better DVD - just worse one as iDVD does a bad Down-scaling job and DVD is as standard locked to old CRT-TV quality
meaning = Interlaced SD-Video Quality
PAL about 625 lines and 50 frames per second at it's Max
(NTSC - 480 lines and 60 frames per second)
So I use Medium Quality to get best possibly DVD result
- DVD brand is important - I use Verbatim
- DVD type matters - RW-DVDs usually do not work, R+DVD plays on modern DVD-players, R-DVD plays on even older ones. Double Layer DVDs usually has more problems than Single Layers
- BURN SPEED - I set this as low possibly - IMPORTANT !
- Free Space on Boot Hard disk - My minimum is 25Gb free space - always !
Good Luck - Yours Bengt W
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Dec 10, 2014 5:10 AMby Gus1,Hi and thanks for your input.
I see that both you and "Old Toad" say that the type of DVD is important. I will go buy some Verbatim DVD-s and see what happens. You both say to burn at the lowest speed possible, but that option doesn't appear when burning from idvd. If I burn from disk utility, I think that that option shows up.
To be continued, and thanks.
Angus
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Dec 10, 2014 6:33 AMby Bengt Wärleby,To set Burn Speed in iDVD - is very possibly - but not stright forward.
Go up to the top row menu. Select iDVD Preferences.
Then Select Advance. At bottom here - You set BURN SPEED
Not Straight forward - BUT IT WORKS.
Something is wrong with - ADD PHOTO Command - SORRY - FireFox and Safari - So I guess the problem resides deeper. Re-Start did not help. A Major fault I guess.
Yours Bengt W
