iDVD - If I could shoot it, I would...

[Lowe]

Argh, just spent the last few days struggling with iMovie '08 (what were Apple thinking/smoking?!) only to bin 3.5 days of work and revert to iMovie '06 HD.

I've now exported my movies and wish to burn it to a DVD, something which should be simple with iDVD. But no... it won't accept a widescreen movie exported from iMovie HD! It's recognising it as a 4:3 aspect and squashing it all up.

Having read up on the problem, it appears that you need Quicktime Pro to edit the movie files, adding a flag which says the file is widescreen?!

Either way I'm not amused - does anyone have any other idea or way to edit the flag in the files and change it to widescreen?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Buy QuickTime Pro?

 

[Lowe]

Har har.

£20 to fix Apple's bug? No chance, heh!

 

[AdWright]

Not on my mac at the moment, but I believe you have to set up the DVD project as widescreen when you first create it?

 

[Lowe]

Yup, that's already done.

Somehow I need to enable the anamorphic flag on the exported Quicktime files for them to play back properly.

I've had a bit more luck - I've found a tool called Dumpster here:

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/

This lets you play around with the header of the Quicktime file. I've set it up now so that it's set up as widescreen, and iDVD sees the file as the correct aspect ratio - but it insists on squashing it all up the left hand side!

I'm getting there though.. slowly but surely!

 

[Lowe]

Found it - used Dumpster and altered the track header manually for each file. Labour intensive, but no re-encoding done. Phew!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

You could have just got a QuickTime serial, but that's neither here nor there

I prefer to purchase these apps!