Hi - I just completed my first iDVD project which is just comprised of a photo slideshow (event from iPhoto) set to an iTunes playlist (AIFF and AAC files) using an iDVD theme (7.0 theme)
Everything seemed to work well, with one glaring exception:
Every six minutes and 22 seconds (6:22) upon DVD playback, the DVD stops for a brief second and then restarts - this causes an audio "blip." I would like to correct this.
Other info to help diagnose this problem: there are no markers that I know of in the project. I used six "drop zones" in the theme, though I don't know how/why those would affect the playback.
During preview, it plays fine. I have already tried "Save as Disk Image" and then burning to a high quality DVD at 4X speed - none of that corrected the problem. One other note: at each 6:22 of the approximately 37 minute slideshow, the "title" field changes from "1," to "2," to "3," etc. - what does this mean - this is apparently the cause of the problem, though I do not see how to adjust/correct this - thank you in advance!! [the other affect this has is that the running time resets every 6:22 - I would prefer this not to happen).
A couple of other notes, not as important, though still would like to figure out:
1. Edits I make to the songs in iTunes (namely, adjusting the volume and length of some songs) don't seem to take in the final product - why is this? The edits work when the songs play in iTunes.
2. I have seven songs that accompany the slideshow - is it possible to put markers at the start of each of those songs so I could select through to different sections? I have read that in a slideshow, each slide is a marker, so perhaps this isn't easily doable.
I've read about some other somewhat similar cases and some have suggested producing the slideshow in iMovie and then bringing it back into iDVD - would this help? Would this also allow me to mix the music better, as well? Or is there some better method? Garageband? Final Cut?
Thank you so much for your help - first thing I want to solve is the audio blip problem - next priority would be to get the song volumes matched/lengths slightly edited, and next would be the markers.
jsfitz22
Everything seemed to work well, with one glaring exception:
Every six minutes and 22 seconds (6:22) upon DVD playback, the DVD stops for a brief second and then restarts - this causes an audio "blip." I would like to correct this.
Other info to help diagnose this problem: there are no markers that I know of in the project. I used six "drop zones" in the theme, though I don't know how/why those would affect the playback.
During preview, it plays fine. I have already tried "Save as Disk Image" and then burning to a high quality DVD at 4X speed - none of that corrected the problem. One other note: at each 6:22 of the approximately 37 minute slideshow, the "title" field changes from "1," to "2," to "3," etc. - what does this mean - this is apparently the cause of the problem, though I do not see how to adjust/correct this - thank you in advance!! [the other affect this has is that the running time resets every 6:22 - I would prefer this not to happen).
A couple of other notes, not as important, though still would like to figure out:
1. Edits I make to the songs in iTunes (namely, adjusting the volume and length of some songs) don't seem to take in the final product - why is this? The edits work when the songs play in iTunes.
2. I have seven songs that accompany the slideshow - is it possible to put markers at the start of each of those songs so I could select through to different sections? I have read that in a slideshow, each slide is a marker, so perhaps this isn't easily doable.
I've read about some other somewhat similar cases and some have suggested producing the slideshow in iMovie and then bringing it back into iDVD - would this help? Would this also allow me to mix the music better, as well? Or is there some better method? Garageband? Final Cut?
Thank you so much for your help - first thing I want to solve is the audio blip problem - next priority would be to get the song volumes matched/lengths slightly edited, and next would be the markers.
jsfitz22
