old movies persisting in iDVD

RichGB rgb at ellerbach.com
Wed Oct 8 06:00:29 PDT 2003


On [2003-Oct-03]  Erica Sadun <erica at mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 9:52 AM -0500 10/3/03, RichGB wrote:
> >I'm running 10.2.6 with iMovie 3.0.3 and IDVD3.0.1 and running into a 
> >problem
> >where the changes made to the .mov file in iM are not getting picked up by
> >iDVD. For instance, I'd make a movie and exit, move to iDVD and start 
> >trying
> >out different formats and so on. Then I'd go back to iM and add some titles
> >and then quit again. Restart iDVD and delete the old movie and drag the new
> >.mov file over. But, when I preview the movie the titles aren't there. 
> >What's
> >up?? Just last night I made a movie and inadvertantly left a small clip at 
> >the
> >end. Started iDVD and dragged the movie file in and previewed it -- oops, 
> >saw
> >the error and went back to iM to delete the trailing clip. Back to iDVD and
> >deleted the old movie and dragged the new on in (plays correctly in QT, by 
> >the
> >way) did the preview and, sure enough, the now-deleted trailing clip was 
> >still
> >there.
> 
> If I were you, I'd trash the iDVD project and start a new one.

Thanks Erica. I did as you suggested and started over with the iDVD          
  side after completely finishing the iMovie side of things and then it      
    worked as it should. It certainly is frustrating that "delete" in        
      iDVD apparently means "little" to "not much" though :-)                
          

Rich



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