The app locked up and the drive seemed to be stuck seeking back and forth. Bit of a pain, but shouldn’t be an issue for me any more beyond these first two discs - I’ll just do one iMovie per disc from now on).Īfter the burn, I popped the disc in the Mac and played some of it back. You have to physically delete the stuff you don’t want, then export. in iMovie, when you go to auto-create an iDVD project, there’s no way to export only a subset of the actual content in iMovie. I used the same parameters as my first disc, and the burn process was smooth (one thing I forgot. And, I’ll be sure to keep the source tapes around.Īll in all, it’s great that this technology works as well as it does, but it’s got a bit of evolving to do before I will feel like I can completely trust it! When finished, I’ll delete the iMovie and iDVD projects. Or I could do both (I believe iDVD can create disk images directly, but I haven’t tried it yet). Alternatively, I could burn one copy and then extract the image, and save the image on my hard disk. One copy can be for archival purposes (to burn more copies down the road), and the other for playing. At any rate, in the future, I think I’ll burn two copies of each iDVD project. My whole recent experience with DVD-R burning leaves me feeling not overly confident about the reliability of the media, but despite the glitches, I seem to end up with playable discs. However, the resulting disc played fine all the way through on the Mac. On the second try (with a new disc of course), the disc burned successfully, but then it went to verify it (which I’m guessing just does a byte-by-byte comparison of the image on the DVD with the image on the hard disk), and that failed. I took the disc out of the drive, and it had a physical glitch (appeared to be a speck of something, but I couldn’t wipe it off the disc) right where the burning stopped. Then I went to burn the image onto a new disc. Extracting the data onto the hard drive went without a hitch. I tried it out with one of my previously-burned discs. In practice, this seems to work, but the process had a couple hiccups. Apple conveniently provides an article that describes how to do this. It appears that iDVD isn’t my answer here.įortunately, the solution turns out to be much simpler: Once I burn a project to DVD, I can just extract the image from the disc, and re-burn it to a new disc. Once I’ve edited the video, created the menus etc., I don’t care about making further mods to the project itself, I just want to keep a copy of my work in case a disc goes bad down the road, or whatever. So, this is a bit disappointing, but that’s life (I guess they figure disk space is cheap, so why wouldn’t I want to keep 15+ gigs of uncomressed video around for every tape I shoot).īasically, what I’m looking to do here, is just archive my DVD image somehow so that I can burn extra copies down the road. So apparently, the encoded data that iDVD stores is only there to speed up subsequent burns, and not for archival purposes. I learned this the hard way, after I had deleted some stuff from the iMovie, and found that I could no longer go into iDVD and burn a new disc. Apparently, even though it stores the encoded video between sessions, it still needs the entire uncompressed iMovie project to be able to do anything with the project. Well, unfortunately, it appears that iDVD doesn’t work quite as I had predicted in a previous entry.
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