[MacDV] Can't render/encode my iDVD project - Can't burn project to DVD

[Robert L. Vaessen]

Gerhard -

Thanks for the info. I'm about to go back to iMovie, rebuild my entire 
project from scratch, avoiding anything controversial, like video, or 
photos, or music... Just kidding, sort of!

This part (You can't add MPEG files to an iDVD project because they 
don't contain standard video tracks.) of that support article is 
particularly interesting, even though it doesn't apply to me. I don't 
know where anyone would have gotten the idea that I tried to put an 
MPEG video file into iDVD. I used iMovie to export iMovie generated 
data to iDVD. I'm assuming that the output from iMovie is compatible 
with iDVD. Maybe that's my problem. If the output from iMovie is not 
necessarily compatible with iDVD... Well, I wouldn't be all that 
surprised.

The fact that I started with MPEG video (.VOB extension) in iMovie, has 
nothing to do with what I'm doing in iDVD. iMovie converts all inputs 
into .mov QuickTime formated video.

For that matter to say that you can't use MPEG files in an iDVD project 
is a very strange statement. Considering the fact that QuickTime video 
files (.mov extension) are based on MPEG standards.

Hopefully, someday, by some miracle, I'll manage to find just the right 
combination of planetary alignments and zoological configurations 
favorable to iDVD.

- Robert

On Oct 24, 2004, at 18:39, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> Here is what the Apple Support site has to say on this subject.
>
> Gerhard
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=150500
> DVD 4.0.1 Help
>
> Unsupported movie and graphic formats
>
> You cannot use movies saved in thousands of colors using the "none" 
> compression setting. Also, you cannot use 48-bit color images (16 bits 
> per color) in iDVD projects. To use source files in one of these 
> formats in iDVD, save them in a supported format.
>
> iDVD does not support Aurora uncompressed files. For best results, 
> export Aurora clips as DV-format video before importing them into 
> iDVD.
>
> iDVD supports only QuickTime movies with linear video tracks. Other 
> formats, such as QuickTime VR, MPEG, Flash, streaming or encrypted 
> movies, or QuickTime spanned movies, cannot be added to your iDVD 
> project.
>
> You can't add MPEG files to an iDVD project because they don't contain 
> standard video tracks.
>
> You can't use QuickTime Fast Start movies with iDVD. (Fast Start 
> movies are intended for Internet playback.) When saving a QuickTime 
> movie for use with iDVD, click the Options button in the QuickTime 
> Export dialog and make sure that the "Prepare for Internet Streaming" 
> checkbox is not selected.
> On Oct 23, 2004, at 4:44 PM, Robert L. Vaessen wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Oct 23, 2004, at 2:09 PM, James Asherman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, October 23, 2004, at 01:43  PM, Robert L. Vaessen 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure what you're talking about. I took segmented VIDEO_TS 
>>>>> (MPEG2 encoded Transport Stream) data into iMovie, and I'm taking 
>>>>> an iMovie project file/folder/data (multiple files/file formats) 
>>>>> directly to iDVD by clicking the 'Create iDVD project' from the 
>>>>> iMovie's iDVD pane. iDVD creates an iDVD project file when you 
>>>>> click the 'Create iDVD project' button.
>>>>>
>>>> So in this case what you want to do, would be,
>>>> Save you iMovie project with the chapters.
>>>>  RENDER  it as a separate new  DV movie.
>>>> Drop that sucker onto iDVD.
>>>> Yer done.
>>