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

[Gerhard Kuhn]

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.
>
> ...correcting top posting...
>
> On Oct 23, 2004, at 14:34, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>
>> Robert how long is your project.  I have heard of people having the 
>> same problems as you describe when working with movies longer than 60 
>> minutes.  I am sorry that I have no solution but hopefully someone 
>> who has experienced this can chime in.
>
> Gerhard -
>
> My project is about 45 minutes long. That's with motion menus and 
> such. 32 minutes of actual footage. Not that long at all.
>
> - Robert
>
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