[MacDV] bad dvd from iMovie?

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 09:12  AM, Donald Hinkle wrote:

> I had a brief iMovie (v. 4) a friend had made; needed an iDVD. In 
> iMovie, after dropping all the Clips to the TimeLine, I clicked on 
> DVD, got the Theatre with music, clicked Burn. After 20 minutes or so 
> it said it was done. I handed it to friend who put it in DVD player; 
> doesn't work. I tried it on my ALPB, where I burned it; we see the 
> "preview," the first couple of shots in the theatre curtains, but Play 
> doesn't work; there's apparently nothing more.
>
> I'd like to redo it, but I'm concerned--what went wrong and how can I 
> avoid it?
> X 10.3.3 on ALPB.
>
>
>

Sounds like you didn't set it up in the iDVD pane of iMovie.
  Start iDVD your self and then put your movie in the preview of iMOvie 
and start defining chapters. Drag them to the chapter slots. Then you 
can tell it to transfer it to iDVD .
Preview it before burning.
  Jim