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Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Having recently acquired a new iMac 27" & created a movie in iMovie, my intention was to burn to DVD but discover there is no iDVD present with OSX10.9.2. I have bought a Mac Drive for this reason.

I have iDVD on my older iMac & wonder if it would be possible to transfer/copy IDVD from there (& how best to do if feasible). Or reading some of the internet forums, wonder whether I would be better to consider third party DVD burning software. IDVD does not appear to be available in the App Store as far as I can see.

Any help, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,
David Chaplin

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Douglas Cheney
I would suggest you try Toast, I have used it to create DVDs of my Grandchildren. You need to export your finished movie as a Quicktime movie. There is a version on the app store now

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Thanks for your advice Douglas; I will have a look at Toast which was also mentioned in the online forums.

David

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Mark Ford
David, f your iMac doesn't have a CD/DVD drive - and new ones don't, I have a USB SuperDrive you can borrow for the task.
Mark

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Hello Mark, I have bought an Apple drive to connect thanks. After discussion with Euan, I copied iDVD from my old iMac to the new iMac & was hoping this was the end of my troubles but alas no. It seems as though iDVD is not being recognised on the new machine & having tried to transfer edited video, failed because iMovie will not see iDVD.
iDVD opens separately but I notice a lot of the facilities from the top tool bar (i.e.: import, cut, copy etc) are greyed out & can't be used. This is probably a red herring because I have just checked the old machine & find it is the same. For the record I have used iDVD many times previously on this older iMac but not with Mavericks.
Is there something basic that I have omitted to do on the transfer of iDVD? I even had a look for updates but iDVD is not now available via iTunes Updates.
Any suggestions please. David

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Douglas Cheney
You could do a search on Macupdate.com or http://download.cnet.com/mac and see if it is on there

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Alan Cox
I've had basically the same problem, i.e. being unable to burn an iMovie edited movie onto a disc in a USB Supedrive plugged in to a Mavericks iMac. Apple has deceived us once again - reminiscent of the Garden of Eden.

Anyway I have just had a go with Toast. I saved a titchy iMovie movie as an mp4 on the desktop, opened Toast, told it I wanted to make a video disc and dragged the icon of the mp4 onto the ensuing Toast window, and told it to burn. Which it did successfully once I had put a blank disc into the Superdrive. Having done all the superplexing, burning, finishing off and goodness knows what else I had a disc which played just fine.

Mind you, I have not the least idea what mp4 means, nor an of the other formats offered. But, hey, who cares - it worked!

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Trevor Hewson
It's a while since I used iDVD but, FWIW, I just launched iDVD on my iMac (running Mavericks). It launched okay but I didn't try to open a new project or import a movie from iMovie. I would be happy to give it a try if it helps.

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Mark Ford
Brilliant Alan - sorry David not to be able to help - I haven't the slightest idea what is going on here - iDVD just confuses things - seems like a case for a presentation - a really s-l-o-w presentation - by Mick TFOAW [The Font of All Wisdom] at at least 2 WAMUG meetings!

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Graham Whent
HI David
iskysoft imedia convertor deluxe from the app store does it all £24.49. Try it free on the net. but it's much dearer. It's better than Toast & iDVD but still compresses to much for me.

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Hello one & all,

Many thanks for all the suggestions and I will update where I am at the moment.

I reloaded iDVD as Douglas suggested but whilst progressing a little further this time, when it came to burning the DVD, the remote Apple drive would not recognise the edited movie to be burnt (or vice versa)! Mavericks appear not to want us to produce DVD's for ourselves but use iCloud & pay through the nose etc, I concluded.

I next bought the basic Toast App. but found some twitchy areas in the DVD which I judged unacceptable.

I was short of time to get this edited wedding video to Canada & discovered Vimeo - a web based unit that allows video sharing etc, so (because of size) paid for a 3 moth membership for it to be privately available in Canada & worldwide for that matter in acceptable quality. I have since put it on YouTube, although the quality not as good. Vimeo allows basic no cost use for shorter videos if needed.

I see Alan you have used Toast with acceptable results & I ask whether you used the basic App. Not sure whether MP4 makes the difference but await your view.

I note Graham mentions Iskysoft & will discuss at next meeting.

Thank you to all, David.

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Sorry Trevor,

I would appreciate if you could test a newly edited short video & burn through iDVD on your machine, just to satisfy my curiosity & also my thoughts on Apple's future thinking on iCloud. It may well work on the inbuilt DVD drive as against my new external drive.

Thanks, David

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Hello David,

Glad you found a work around. I use Vimeo too, although only have a free account. The quality is always good.

I'd be happy to try to burn a video via iDVD. Do you want to send me video file to try or do you want me just to pick a video of my own? If you want to send me a file you can e-mail it directly to me if it's small or, if its more than say 3MB, send it via Wetransfer.com (another great free service!). The first part of my email address is trevorhewson as a Mac user you can guess the rest. Hopefully the web crawlers can't!

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Douglas Cheney
There is a program on the app store you might find helps called Smart DVD Creator

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Euan Williams
Macworld have just issued an on-line article about this issue here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2459440/how-to-burn-movies-to-disc-in-an-idvd-less-world.html?%23tk.out_mod?=obinsite.

It mentions a (free) app called "Burn".

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Hello Trevor,

If you would be good enough to test one of your own short videos from iMovie in iDVD and let me know if you succeed in burning to a DVD. I assume you have a built-in hard drive?

In the excellent article Euan mentions (Thanks Euan), a contributor mentions has has succeeded in burning a DVD via iDVD in Mavericks but not with an HD video, which I believe has a different base. Also, Burn is mentioned.

The cost of Toast Titanium 12 appears a bit pricey for what I do but time may determine the way forward for me. Thanks again for your help.

David Chaplin.

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Okay, will do. The grandchildren are with us until Thursday so I might struggle to get a look in on the iMac before then! They aren't good for the memory either so, if you haven't heard anything by the weekend, do give me a reminder.

Trevor

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Right, I managed to set a DVD burning while we took the grandchildren to the beach. It all seemed to work okay and I have played the DVD on our Panasonic DVD player.

The movie was 1280 x 720, H.264 encoding and eight minutes long. I have a 2009 iMac with internal optical drive, 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo processor, running OS X 10.9.4. The version of iDVD is 7.1.2.

It could be that iDVD has a problem with external drives but I haven't got one to test. I hope this is of some help.

Trevor

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar David Chaplin
Hello Trevor,

Thanks for completing the "test" proving iMovie/iDVD works with Mavericks.

I will try again soon using a none HD video & report back. I am still wondering if the difference between older/newer iMacs (i.e.. internal hard drive as against my external one) may be the real issue.

Thanks again,

David

Re: Burning a created movie onto a DVD

Avatar Graham Caves
Hello Folks,

Just to continue the subject of burn app, I have used it to burn some DVDs before and they played on my iMac and my television DVD player downstairs no problem.

I have done some more burning recently and the more recent copies won't play on my Mac but do work downstairs?

Am I missing a simple trick or is there a wider problem with Mavericks?

Does it matter Format PAL or NTSC? Is there a checkbox I need to click or clear?

My version of Burn is 2.4.1 so would a software upgrade solve it?

If anybody can help it would be good to hear from someone.

Many thanks

Graham Caves
 
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