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Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: jb on January 28, 2007, 10:28:07 PM

iMac G5 rev.A OS 10.4.8

My son in law made a movie with iMovie. Since he does not yet have a DVD Burner, he brought his iMovie project to my place. We copied his project unto my computer, and proceeded to burn a DVD using my Toast 7.0. The DVD burnt OK and played OK on my TV DVD Player. However when I try to play the DVD on my computer, it does not. Clicking on the DVD icon, it opens a file that consists of two folders, VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. I tried with VLC with no success.
- Is there a way to be able to play the DVD?
- Or is it the way I burnt the DVD? What I did was to use iMovie to render the project to iDVD, that resulted in a Quicktime Movie file (Title.mov), that was then Toasted.

I can play the Quicktime Movie file OK on the computer.

jb

Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: dolphin on January 29, 2007, 07:56:27 AM

jb...possibly. I had a DVD that I burned on my DVD recorder from the TV. It played on two different DVD players, but would not play on my computer. Never did get it to work. However; I recorded another a few weeks later and it played on my computer.


I think though that if you had burned the iMovie to DVD using iDVD it would have played. Just my 2cents !!!

DVD formats are soooo wishy washy. Now Blu-Ray is changing everything.

Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: Jack W on January 29, 2007, 08:43:22 AM

jb-

In Toast 7:
• Choose Video tab
• Select Formats from side panel
• Check DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS

Drag the Video_TS you want to burn into the window and click Burn.

That may work. If not, choose DVD Video instead of "from VIDEO_TS"

It may take a little tuning.

Jack

Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: FLASH1296 on January 29, 2007, 08:46:31 AM

Firstly, Toast 7 while lacking some of the features of Toast 8 should work well enough.
I 'burn' alotta videos so I also use Visual Hub 1.2 (my absolute favorite) and the shareware "Burn" (on occasion)
To play on a TV be sure that you are set to NTSC, if you are in North America or Japan, (as opposed to PAL), for the DVD setting.

In the Toast 7 Video window you can select one of 5 formats.
Which did you choose?

Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 29, 2007, 08:14:04 PM

QUOTE

Is there a way to be able to play the DVD?

Probably. First, check your "CD s& DVDs" pref panel and see what you've set as the default actions when you insert a CD/DVD. You may not have DVDs set up to automatically play. Second, open DVD Player and use the "Open" command, then select the DVD from there.

I don't think you can 'play' a DVD by double-clicking those "TS" files.

Title: iMovie DVD
Post by: jb on January 29, 2007, 11:41:03 PM

Thanks Xabd. That did it.

jb