I work in a lab at a university where faculty can come in and (among other things) edit video. I have a customer who has been coming in for weeks editing about 6 hours of footage into a 90 minute DVD. The first time he did it, the DVD got scratched, so he came back with the original footage and started over. Then just as he finished it the second time, iMovie suddenly decided that the project is unreadable (opening it gives exactly that error message). I was able to sort of fix this by creating a new empty project, copying over the original media files from the media folder, and the project file, but not any iMovie generated clips (transitions and title screens). So his clips are still cut together, he just added the titles and transitions back in again. So he left a note for me to go ahead and burn his DVD for him today, and when I went in to do so, the project is once again unreadable.
I can't bear to make him work on this thing any more. Does anybody have any idea what's going on? And more importantly, does anyone know if I can perhaps make a DVD from the preview MOV file since it contains all the chapter data (the chapters are kind of important for his needs)? I know I can just pull the movie into iDVD, but that won't create the scene selection menus, right? Can I create those in iDVD?
Any help would be greatly appreciated by both me and this poor professor.
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