Live action chapter selection buttons in iDVD

sb videovideo at mac.com
Wed Nov 12 10:59:18 PST 2003


Chapter Markers set where the video starts to play.
The slider selects the poster frame, it has nothing to do with where the
video starts playing. It's just the "label" for that chapter or button.

 sb

On 11/12/03 10:25 AM, "Ron Siewert" <rsiewert at uswest.net> wrote:

> I am having difficulty locking the live video start frame for each chapter
> button (NOT background image) in iDVD.
> 
> I create the chapters in iMovie, send to iDVD, set theme preference (i.e.
> Theater, Book, Projector, etc), then create the Scene Selection preference
> theme. IDVD automatically imports the live video image from the iMovie
> created chapters.
> 
> So far so good, however, when I click once on one of the buttons (either
> with Motion on or off) I get the Movie checkbox and the slider bar. As I
> understand from reading the iDVD help file, I should be able to move the
> slider to a point within that video section (or anywhere in the full video
> for that matter) and the live video should be viewable from that point when
> burned to disk. It does not stick!
> 
> I have tried setting with Motion on and off, saving project before moving to
> next step, setting with Movie box selected and unselected, etc, but to no
> avail I have yet (in MANY efforts) been able to get the selection to work as
> stated in the iDVD help file.
> 
> Anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions? I am running 10.2.8 on an
> iMac 1Gh, QuickTime 6.4, iDVD 3.0.1, and iMovie 3.0.3. Thanks all.
> 
> 
> 
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