[zeebe]

Hello, I have made DVDs in the past with no problems, but now I have one. I am making a DVD with different movies and stuff from the net. I want to include all of the trailers for Episode 2 of Star Wars. I can get the latest one (clone wars) but when I try to put the other three in the DVD they do not copy into the program. I have no idea why this is not working, as I can save the movies from the web. I get no error message when I do this and I have about 20 minutes left on the DVD. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening???

[parkds]

unfort I fon't know the answer to your question. I am kinda new to iDVD. I would recomend opening the file in QuickTime Player, and if you have QuickTime Pro, export the movie to another format maybe.
I am trying to make a DVD of Oscar nominated movie trailers, and I was wondering, since it sounds like you are doing the same thing. How do you import a letterbox QuickTime (.mov) file into iDVD so that is doesn't squish the file into a fullscreen (4:3) file. I know I can go into Final Cut Pro and do this but I was getting very long render times and it just seemed to complicated. Thanks
Doug

[tr]

zeebe, i posted a reply to your topic in the OS X forum here.

your problem sounded a bit strange, so i tried it myself...and you're right. you can only add the latest trailer, with the other 3, you get a 'iDVD does not allow..." error. i think there's some sort of protection or something when the trailer was encoded.

but parkds suggestion of exporting it in QTPro actually works. if you export it, the exported movie will be able to be added to iDVD. okay, now the big problem is what parkds mentioned: the trailers are letterboxed, so they end up getting squished to fill the 4:3 screen. i'm sure you'll be able to fix it in FCP, but i'll have play around in QTPro to see if it's do-able.


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