Re: IMovie 09 to iDVD 09 - terrible results

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Marlene,

First I'll mention a little about iMovie'09 & iMovieHD ('06), just for your 
reference.
Be aware that iMovie '09 uses 'single field processing' (Interlaced) meaning 
every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the 
sharpness of the footage.
iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) uses ALL of the image (Progressive) to form the video.

If your primary workflow is editing DV clips and making DVDs, iMovie 06 (iMovie 
HD) is better suited.
Your movie will arrive at iDVD in DV format, which is an ideal match for making 
a DVD: same resolution, same pixels aspect ratio, and original quality.

iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) and iDVD 09 is a "lossless" combination.

iMovie '09 is a wonderful program assuming that you're using it for what it was 
designed to do, assemble simple videos to share on the Internet.
-
After saying the above, it is not going to help you any as you don't have 
iMovieHD and Apple have ceased allowing it for download.
So we work with what you have, that is, your project in iMovie'09, best quality 
export to get it into iDVD & create a DVD of very good quality.

As I mentioned in my previous email today … DON'T "Share to iDVD"! It is 
destructive especially to photos.
I suggest you have three choices to get your iMovie project into iDVD & create 
your DVD.
1. Share > Media Browser - Large 720 x 540 
2. Share > Export Movie - creates a MPEG-4 (.m4v) 720 x 540 & Audio 44,100 kHz
3. Share > Export Using Quicktime - gives you control over Quicktime Settings.

(Share always to your Movies folder, then when in iDVD you can click on  
"Media" - then Movies and locate your files).

You could experiment with all the above settings, making sure that in iDVD you 
save your iDVD projects "Save As Disc Image", so you can check before your 
waste any DVDs.

I would suggest, in your case, that No.3 - Share > "Export Using Quicktime" 
with these settings would give you the best quality DVD.
Share > "Export using Quicktime"
In the export window that appears,
Export: Movie to DV Stream, click Options
DV Format: DV
Video Format: PAL  (leave it at interlaced, as DVD-PAL is interlaced)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9 (depending on how your photos/project was imported)
Audio Format: 48,000 kHz

This will give you a Quicktime .dv file with Format DV, 720 x 576, Stereo, 
48,000 kHz.

Then you can Open iDVD, bring in your Movie file, and create your DVD.

iDVD Preferences:
Projects: PAL, Encoding: Professional Quality

Once you know your project plays through correctly in iDVD.
Go to File > Save As Disc Image"
You then see a window "Creating your DVD"
1. Prepare
2. Process Menus
3. Process Slideshows
4. Process Movies
5. Burn

After all the Rendering, encoding, processing movie, asset encoding,  & finally
multiplexing & burning is completed, a "Disc Image" is created.

All this takes a long time, depending on the length of your movie.

6. Open the "Disk Image" and play it "all the way through" in DVD Player.app to 
check for any errors BEFORE you burn the "Disc Image" to a DVD-R Disc.

7. Burn at a slow speed - 2x or 4x for Single Layer DVD-R, 2x for Double Layer 
DVD+R DL. (I recommend using Verbatim DVD-R (for single layer) & DVD+R DL Discs 
(for Double Layer).

NOTE: I did a quick iMovie'09 project this afternoon, and Share to iDVD using 
No.2(Share > Export Movie - creates a MPEG-4 (.m4v) 720 x 540 & Audio 44,100 
kHz)  & No.3 (Share > Export Using Quicktime, with the settings I explained 
above).
Saved the iDVD project as a Disk Image, (with both projects on the disk image. t
Then burn't a DVD-R from the Disk Image using Toast Titanium 10, but you can 
use either the Finder or Disk Utility to burn a Disk Image to DVD.

I found both the .m4v & .dv with above settings produced a very good quality 
DVD when played in my DVD Player connected to TV.
Possibly the DV format was slightly better, but that could just be my 
preference, there was not much difference that I could see with my eyes ;-)

Hope this is helpful to you, as I would very much like you to be able to create 
a very good quality DVD of your project.
Post back to WAMUG if you require any more assistance.

Kind Regards,
Ronni




On 14/03/2010, at 11:22 AM, Marlene Oostryck wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have just burnt my first DVD from an iMovie project and have been really 
> disappointed with the result. (iMac 10.5.8, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB)
> 
> The image quality in iMovie is excellent but when played as a DVD on a TV 
> there are moving horizontal lines and the image quality is very poor.
> A Google search on this problem turned up 130 discussion forums on others who 
> have had similar results.
> 
> The suggested solutions seem very complex:
> 
> Use 1Movie 06 and then burn using Toast
> Don't use the Share feature from iMovie to iDVD - it is destructive of quality
> By-passing this Share feature - start using iDVD and import - but mixed 
> results
> All sorts of manipulations in moving from iMovie to iDVD - all very technical 
> and cl

RE: IMovie 09 to iDVD 09 - terrible results

[Crisp, Peter]

Thanks for the comprehensive instructions again Ronni. I will soon be
experimenting with iMovie '09 which I have on the Macbook. Your tips
acknowledged. My video was shot with a Sony HD camcorder which I believe
is 1080 (i or p not sure). It seems from your notes below, the resultant
video when burnt to a disc will be something at a lower resolution that
the original source file. Have I interpreted correctly? Is there a way
of retaining the original resolution or am I dreaming?

 

Regards

 

Peter.



From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Sunday, 14 March 2010 7:06 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: IMovie 09 to iDVD 09 - terrible results

 

Hi Marlene,

 

First I'll mention a little about iMovie'09 & iMovieHD ('06), just for
your reference.

Be aware that iMovie '09 uses 'single field processing' (Interlaced)
meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which
reduces the sharpness of the footage.

iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) uses ALL of the image (Progressive) to form the
video.

If your primary workflow is editing DV clips and making DVDs, iMovie 06
(iMovie HD) is better suited.
Your movie will arrive at iDVD in DV format, which is an ideal match for
making a DVD: same resolution, same pixels aspect ratio, and original
quality.

iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) and iDVD 09 is a "lossless" combination.

iMovie '09 is a wonderful program assuming that you're using it for what
it was designed to do, assemble simple videos to share on the Internet.

-

After saying the above, it is not going to help you any as you don't
have iMovieHD and Apple have ceased allowing it for download.

So we work with what you have, that is, your project in iMovie'09, best
quality export to get it into iDVD & create a DVD of very good quality.

 

As I mentioned in my previous email today ... DON'T "Share to iDVD"! It
is destructive especially to photos.

I suggest you have three choices to get your iMovie project into iDVD &
create your DVD.

1. Share > Media Browser - Large 720 x 540 

2. Share > Export Movie - creates a MPEG-4 (.m4v) 720 x 540 & Audio
44,100 kHz

3. Share > Export Using Quicktime - gives you control over Quicktime
Settings.

 

(Share always to your Movies folder, then when in iDVD you can click on
"Media" - then Movies and locate your files).

 

You could experiment with all the above settings, making sure that in
iDVD you save your iDVD projects "Save As Disc Image", so you can check
before your waste any DVDs.

 

I would suggest, in your case, that No.3 - Share > "Export Using
Quicktime" with these settings would give you the best quality DVD.

Share > "Export using Quicktime"

In the export window that appears,

Export: Movie to DV Stream, click Options

DV Format: DV

Video Format: PAL  (leave it at interlaced, as DVD-PAL is interlaced)

Aspect Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9 (depending on how your photos/project was
imported)

Audio Format: 48,000 kHz

 

This will give you a Quicktime .dv file with Format DV, 720 x 576,
Stereo, 48,000 kHz.

 

Then you can Open iDVD, bring in your Movie file, and create your DVD.

 

iDVD Preferences:

Projects: PAL, Encoding: Professional Quality


Once you know your project plays through correctly in iDVD.
Go to File > Save As Disc Image"
You then see a window "Creating your DVD"
1. Prepare
2. Process Menus
3. Process Slideshows
4. Process Movies
5. Burn

After all the Rendering, encoding, processing movie, asset encoding,  &
finally
multiplexing & burning is completed, a "Disc Image" is created.

All this takes a long time, depending on the length of your movie.

 

6. Open the "Disk Image" and play it "all the way through" in DVD
Player.app to check for any errors BEFORE you burn the "Disc Image" to a
DVD-R Disc.

7. Burn at a slow speed - 2x or 4x for Single Layer DVD-R, 2x for Double
Layer DVD+R DL. (I recommend using Verbatim DVD-R (for single layer) &
DVD+R DL Discs (for Double Layer).

 

NOTE: I did a quick iMovie'09 project this afternoon, and Share to iDVD
using No.2(Share > Export Movie - creates a MPEG-4 (.m4v) 720 x 540 &
Audio 44,100 kHz)  & No.3 (Share > Export Using Quicktime, with the
settings I explained above).

Saved the iDVD project as a Disk Image, (with both projects on the disk
image. t

Then burn't a DVD-R from the Disk Image using Toast Titanium 10, but you
can use either the Finder or Disk Utility to burn a Disk Image to DVD.

 

I found both the .m4v & .dv with above settings produced a very good
quality DVD when played in my DVD Player connected to TV.

Possibly the DV format was slightly better, but that could just be my
preference, there was not much difference that I could see with my eyes
;-)

 

Hope this is helpful to you, as I would very much like you to be able to
create a very good quality DVD of your project.

Post back to WAMUG if you require any more assistance.

 

Kind Regards,

Ronni

 





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Permissions Problem

[Joe Mastrella]

Greetings! I use a little program called PTH paste board. I find this
program very useful. I downloaded the new up grade and when I try to install
the program I get a dialog box

Preferences error can not load PTHPasteboard.

I have repaired permissions.

In my Library folder I notice that there are 3 preference items.

Please help.

Joe


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Permissions Problem

[Joe Mastrella]

Greetings! I use a little program called PTH paste board. I find this
program very useful. I downloaded the new up grade and when I try to install
the program I get a dialog box

Preferences error can not load PTHPasteboard.

I have repaired permissions.

In my Library folder I notice that there are 3 preference items.

Please help.

Joe


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Problems with deleting/trashing messages

[Robert Miller-Eves]

Robert Miller-Eves
bobme...@highway1.com.au



Begin forwarded message:
Can anyone throw a light on this?

From: Susan Hastings 
Date: 15 March 2010 1:21:27 PM
To: Robert Miller-Eves 
Subject: Re: Camcorders and compatability with Macs

Hi Bob, I don't have any ideas either, but don't imagine it has  
anything to do with my computer. I haven't had this problem. How  
about posting this to WAMUG. cheers, Susan.

On 15/03/2010, at 10:42 AM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote:

Hi Sue.I have two of your Wamug messages (Blank!) from Feb26th and  
I can't trash them or delete them.tried all sorts to no avail.  
People on Apple discussions with same problem -no solutions!  Got  
any ideas?

On 26/02/2010, at 1:30 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:











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Re: Problems with deleting/trashing messages

[Ronda Brown]

Have try rebuilding the mailbox?
mailbox menu->rebuild.

Sent from Ronni's iPhone

On 15/03/2010, at 1:33 PM, Robert Miller-Eves  
 wrote:




Robert Miller-Eves
bobme...@highway1.com.au



Begin forwarded message:
Can anyone throw a light on this?

From: Susan Hastings 
Date: 15 March 2010 1:21:27 PM
To: Robert Miller-Eves 
Subject: Re: Camcorders and compatability with Macs

Hi Bob, I don't have any ideas either, but don't imagine it has  
anything to do with my computer. I haven't had this problem. How  
about posting this to WAMUG. cheers, Susan.

On 15/03/2010, at 10:42 AM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote:

Hi Sue.I have two of your Wamug messages (Blank!) from Feb26th and  
I can't trash them or delete them.tried all sorts to no avail.  
People on Apple discussions with same problem -no solutions!  Got  
any ideas?

On 26/02/2010, at 1:30 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:












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Bogus email: ANZ

[Merv Bond]

Hi
This afternoon I received an email purporting to be from the ANZ bank 
saying that I had two unread emails. It also said 100 emails only would 
by held for me, the recent 100.  To read the emails I had to click on a 
link, which I did.  The link asked for my username and password, so I 
stopped and went no further.


I phoned the ANZ and read the letter to them.  They confirmed my 
suspicions that it was bogus. There suggestion was to delete the email 
and run a virus scan and then get back to them.  In the mean time they 
would put a hold on access to my account.  Did that, found nothing. 
Phoned and got new access details.


Thought I should alert ANZ users in WAMUG of this scam.
Merv
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