my iMac is running iMovie 10.1.6 I cannot burn a slideshow to dvd to play on non apple products. I have exported it to the Desktop and burnt it thru Finder to dvd but this will not play on a Panasonic DVD player. I have a separate optical drive. Thanks
iPod classic, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Like Larry says, you need a DVD authoring program, like iDVD, to create a DVD that will play universally on DVD players and computers. Burning through the Finder with your Mac's burning program will result in a data disc that will play on a computer but not in a DVD player.
If you don't have iDVD on your computer, you can buy it for about $15 on Amazon as part of the iLife '11 or iLife '09 packages, from which you can select to download iDVD separately. It will work with Sierra and the operating systems that came before it. Google Amazon iLife '11 or Amazon iLife '09 to buy it.
Once you have iDVD on your computer the general procedure is to share your iMovie slideshow to your desk top as a File, at 480p or 540p. You won't lose any quality because iDVD's native resolution is 540 x 480 and it will reduce everything to that anyway. After you share your movie drag it to the edge of an iDVD open project window. It will import right in. Set up your theme, title screen music, chapters and whatnot. (You can create a movie of up to 2 hours duration, including titles and transitions. iDVD will compress it to fit on a 4.7 GB standard DVD.) Then save the iDVD project movie as a disc image from the iDVD File menu. It will take awhile for the encoding to take place. Once you have your disc image saved to your desktop, play it with the DVD player app on your Mac to verify all is well. If yes, then insert a standard DVD-R disc into your connected optical drive, right click on the disc image icon, and select Burn Disc from the resulting drop down menu. Burn it at 4x speed. In a few minutes you will have a DVD that can be played on any DVD player, as well as on a computer.
-- Rich
Like Larry says, you need a DVD authoring program, like iDVD, to create a DVD that will play universally on DVD players and computers. Burning through the Finder with your Mac's burning program will result in a data disc that will play on a computer but not in a DVD player.
If you don't have iDVD on your computer, you can buy it for about $15 on Amazon as part of the iLife '11 or iLife '09 packages, from which you can select to download iDVD separately. It will work with Sierra and the operating systems that came before it. Google Amazon iLife '11 or Amazon iLife '09 to buy it.
Once you have iDVD on your computer the general procedure is to share your iMovie slideshow to your desk top as a File, at 480p or 540p. You won't lose any quality because iDVD's native resolution is 540 x 480 and it will reduce everything to that anyway. After you share your movie drag it to the edge of an iDVD open project window. It will import right in. Set up your theme, title screen music, chapters and whatnot. (You can create a movie of up to 2 hours duration, including titles and transitions. iDVD will compress it to fit on a 4.7 GB standard DVD.) Then save the iDVD project movie as a disc image from the iDVD File menu. It will take awhile for the encoding to take place. Once you have your disc image saved to your desktop, play it with the DVD player app on your Mac to verify all is well. If yes, then insert a standard DVD-R disc into your connected optical drive, right click on the disc image icon, and select Burn Disc from the resulting drop down menu. Burn it at 4x speed. In a few minutes you will have a DVD that can be played on any DVD player, as well as on a computer.
-- Rich
The answer totally depends on the third party device specs - the general answer is that you need authoring software to burn a DC/DVD to play on a CD/DVD player - iDVD can do it or m=many third party products including Toast
LN
Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac? How do I get it and how do I install it?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3673
To burn a DVD with iDVD from the latest version of iMovie, you have to export the movie using the Export button and select 480p as the size. Open iDVD and start a new project, then drag that exported movie file into the iDVD menu window, avoiding any drop zones you see.
If you are using iDVD with El Capitan or Sierra see this thread:
Hi, John,
I know that iDVD will work on Sierra because I am using it myself. When you say it won't open, what exactly happened? Any error message? Does an iDVD menu show at the top of your screen?
iDVD should be located on your main hard drive on your computer. If it is not, you should move it there.
Try Control-click on the iDVD icon and then click on Open Package Contents/MacOS/iDVD and see if it will open from there.
Also, it is possible that you need to download additional resources, like the iDVD themes. The themes can be found at Go/Computer/Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes. If not there, look in Go/Home/Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes. If still not there do a spotlight search for Themes and if you find them move them to a folder labeled "Themes" in the iDVD folder in the above file path. The themes might also be found in the iLife disc that you bought, as a part of resources perhaps, and if so you should download them and put them in the above Themes folder. The themes must be in a folder titled Themes, not just loose in the iDVD folder.
Possibly there is some conflict between iDVD and your user account. Try opening iDVD in a new user account. You can use the Guest account on your Mac for this purpose, or create a new user account from System Preferences/Users and Groups.
Hope this helps.
-- Rich
hi Rich I have installed idvd 09 on to my iMac os high Sierra but it will not open. any ideas John
I have an iMac running Sierra 10.12.6. how do I burn dvd, s to play on non apple products i.e. Sony DVD players etc etc I am running I movie 10.1.6 I have a separate optical drive.
