I have created a new project based on a recent vacation. In the past I have had no trouble saving the file to a disk imagine. For this project I have tried several times and it always hangs while processing the slides and transitions.
I have restarted the MacBook, and also moved the com.apple.iDVD.plist to the desktop, but it still hangs. Any suggestions for next steps would be greatly appreciated.
OSX 10.11.4
iDVD 7.1.2 (1158)
I would batch rename the titles on those first 40 photos and export them to a folder on the Desktop with the option to use the Title as the filename. Add them to the iDVD project from the folder but don't move the folder until the project has been saved to disk image.
If you may want to work on the project at a later date but want to get rid of that folder on the
Desktop use the File ➙ Archive Project menu option:
That saves a copy of all of the media files used in the project into the project file package.
In iPhoto select the photos you want to batch rename and use the Photos ➙ Batch Change ➙ Title to Text menu option:
That will give you this under each photo selected:
When exported the new files name will be the same.
I tried to save as a disk image and the first time, it hung while processing the menus,
That can happen sometimes if any of the menu items are outside of the TV Safe Area. I always make sure all menu items and titles are within those boundaries.
As you know iDVD has been unsupported and discontinued for 4 years or so. Try using an older, non animated theme. Some of the newest themes have problems with El Capitan.
There are a number of free video DVD authoring apps at the App Store that can make a simple video DVD from photos. I would strongly suggest going that route for the time being until you can work out the iDVD issues which can be formidable.
Start a new iDVD project, add the same photos and music and try the same as disk image again.
okay, I decided to just re-add the first two slideshows, as it was hanging fairly early on in the slide processing.. and it now hangs in the new project that only has two slideshows, and hangs about after the 40th slide, about where it did with the original project.
Check the file names of those 40 slides and make sure there are no special characters in them. I know that the ampersand (&) symbol can cause problems. I would get rid of anything except a space and dash.
They are pics from an iPhoto album, so I just dragged and dropped the album into the slideshow, so I'm not sure what the file names are, unless I look in the Project Info dialog box, under media. Many of the pics have "special characters" in the file name (% and +), I can't use any of those photos? I'm not sure how I would even determine which file name in the media list in Project Info points to which pic in the slideshow.
Thanks, this was helpful, and got me a bit further. So, I have started by created a new project. I created folders with file names as you described, and used two of the folder (about thirty pics each) to create the first two slide shows. It use to hand on the second.
I did not add any movies, but I gather they process after slides.
I tried to save as a disk image and the first time, it hung while processing the menus, before even trying to start slideshows. This was aster-backwards, but I decided to restart my MacBook and try again. The second time it successfully saved a disk image. It was elated.
So I added third slide show with no special character file names for the pics, same method as the two successful ones, and it hangs again. Very frustrating. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
So, If I turn that on, I can see a few letters of text outside the TV safe area on the original projects menus. I can fix that. Do I need to check the slideshows themselves somehow?
The new project no text is outside of the safe area. But they are both wee-screen projects, so the total screen is larger than the TV safe area.
I've given up on being able to create .img files with iDVD. The last two projects just hang while encoding slides.
Last night I tried to burn and older .img file to a DVD. First, Disk Utility has changed in El Capitan. I found help on how to do it with Finder, but the DVD wouldn't pay in our PS4. The PS4 said it was an unsupported format.
I read about Toast on another string here. Does Toast burn .img files to DVD?
Does it also let you burn iMovie files (which I think can be slides shows)?
I just bought a brand new $2,000 iMac, loaded iDVD on it.. tried for hours to make a DVD, after spending hours making the DVD, of a friend, who recently died...
It hangs on my brand new $2,000 iMac while processing the slides. I promised his sisters I would make them a DVD for the funeral. This is truly horrible.
There are nine slideshows, consisting of one song each and about 30 photos each, so it will be a big effort. I won't have it done for a few days to report anything back, but will give it a try.
If you do start with slideshow #1 and save as disk image. If all goes will add #2, etc.
What format are the 9 song tracks in? Any from iTunes that might have protection?
They are songs ripped into the iTunes app from CDs I have owned for years. I'm fairly the songs in the first two slideshows are songs I have successfully used in other projects.
iDVD hangs while processing slides and transitions
