Beth it is the iTunes part that caused the problem and the long burn time. I burn DVD's for weddings all the time and It never takes hours to do it. I would redo it with straight MP3 or audio from a CD. An you should be just fine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beth Phillips Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:51 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: DVD burn problem
I'm branching out into uncharted territory (for me anyway) and trying to create a DVD. This was supposed to have been played at my wedding, but I ran into issues with burning it then and didn't get to use it, but I'd still like to make some copies for our families. I took some old family photos and put them together with various songs, some of which were downloaded from iTunes. I put the whole thing together on my laptop using iMovie. (The whole movie only last about 25 minutes) My laptop doesn't have a DVD burner so a friend at work talked me through setting up the file in iDVD and creating an archive of the project which I then took to one of our G5s here at work to burn. When I start to burn the DVD I get an error about some of the iTunes' songs not being authorized to play on this machine. I can't authorize them because work has us blocked from using iTunes' web sight. My friend didn't think that this would matter so I went on and tried to burn the DVD. I started burning around 2pm on a Friday afternoon. By the time I left that day at 5 it was still burning the DVD. I got a call from a coworker on Sun saying the machine had bombed. When I came in Monday it looked like it had burned the DVD but when I took it home to play there were problems. Two of the songs do not appear on the DVD though the pictures that go with them do. Then it gets to one picture and it just stops there and doesn't go any further. I thought that it was because the machine locked up during the burn. I opened the DVD archive file on the G5 and did Preview on it and everything played fine. So I figured the problems had to do with the machine locking up during the burn and tried burning the DVD again yesterday. I started it at 10am and when I left at 5 last night it was still burning. When I came in this morning the machine had locked up again. I tried the DVD and I'm still not getting the sound on two of the scenes. I thought maybe the iTunes warning may be causing this but there are other songs in the movie that came from iTunes and they work fine on the part of the DVD that plays correctly. Does anyone have any clues as to what may be causing this? Is there a limit to how many scenes you can have in a movie? I have about 13 and my problems are occurring in the last 3 scenes. -- Thanks, Beth Fastline Publications Inc. DISCLAIMER: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050318/ad6f314f/attachment.html
