Problem with iDVD or Fotomagico

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Problem with iDVD or Fotomagico

I have been creating slideshows with Fotomagico. When I go to burn a dvd of my slideshow from Fotomagico, I get this same message in iDVD:

Errors in project. There were errors during the project validation. These errors have to be fixed before burning the project.
The following warnings and errors were found during the validation of the current project:
There are no video tracts defined in the current project.

Can anyone help? I don't know if the problem is with Fotomagico, or iDVD. I would purchase Roxio Toast if I know that it is an iDVD issue.

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.8), iLife 6

Posted on Feb 19, 2007 6:47 PM

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J Keller

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Feb 19, 2007 8:04 PM in response to Hallstrom

Welcome to the forums.

I'm not familiar with Fotomagico (and you should be seeking advice from them as well), but iDVD is particular about the format of video files and would prefer if the slideshow is exported from Fotomagico in DV Stream format (.dv).
John

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F Shippey

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Feb 19, 2007 8:25 PM in response to J Keller

John,

FotoMagico can export the correct video content for iDVD and I've used it with no problems - but there are certainly always opportunities to do something wrong in both FotoMagico and iDVD.

The original poster, Deeba, didn't really give me enough information to even try and guess what the problem is.

F Shippey

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SDIllini

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Feb 20, 2007 8:12 AM in response to Hallstrom

I don't know if this is it, but be sure that you have "dropped" the movie into the right location.

The " ...error in project structure." tells me that the DVD specification calls for at least one video track.

So, maybe your video track is in a drop zone on the menu so that means you have no playable video track.

Try dragging the movie outside the drop zone and see what happens.

:)Sue

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Hallstrom Author

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Feb 20, 2007 6:03 PM in response to J Keller

My files are being saved as .dvdproj
How do I save as .dvd?

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Hallstrom Author

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Feb 20, 2007 6:06 PM in response to F Shippey

I'm not an expert in Fotomagico, but it is a pretty basic slideshow, 99 photos, with 3 songs, one title page at the beginning of the slideshow. It is being saved as .dvdproj

I have done these before, and they usually work. This one just won't.

Debbie

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