[MacDV] iDVD problem

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 12:49  PM, Joyce Ranieri wrote:

> I have been having some weird problems with iDVD. This is what I did:
> 1) I imported a video (my sister-in-law's wedding) into iMovie.
> 2) I added chapter markers for The Vows, The Reception, Cutting the 
> Cake.
> 3) I opened iDVD and applied a theme called Blue Fade (which I 
> downloaded -- I forget where just now).
> 4) I added a wedding photograph to the right of the fade (in a space 
> that says "Drop movies or photographs here").
> 5) I dragged the iMovie (Quicktime) file onto the same page.
> 6) I previewed the dvd -- The program automatically created a "Scene 
> Selection" screen, which I also previewed. Everything looked fine.

6a Then I checked the "status" screen panel, and shoved iDVD into the 
dock till encoding was complete.
(Prevents burn underruns and errors.

> 7) I burned the dvd.
> 8) I played back the dvd in my living room dvd player -- at the first 
> & last chapter markers, I got a really strange image. The image at the 
> bottom of the screen freezes in place while the top third of the movie 
> continues playing. Weird!
> 9) I created a new dvd project and re-did steps 3-8.
> 10) I double-checked the Quicktime movie and it looks fine.
>
> My thoughts are
> -- a bad theme???
> --reimport the movie --maybe into Final Cut Express which I just got???
>
> I've done three or four other dvds prior to this and had no problems 
> at all. (But I'll admit, I haven't much experience in this!)
>
> Has anybody else ever had this happen to them? Any suggestions of what 
> I should do next?
>