Making Your Own DVD with iMovie HD and iDVD 01: iMovie 6 Set-up
This series consists of 10 video tutorials that will help you develop your own DVDs with little knowledge about video compression. The first three tutorials go over some of the basic functions of iMovie. The goal of this video tutorial series is to have you develop your own DVD easily and quickly with Apple’s iDVD 6. We have two sets of videos (or two titles) sitting inside our hard disk drive. We use iMovie to lay chapter markers and then export these two titles to iDVD. Eventually, we will develop our own DVD.
Note: Throughout these video tutorials, we use several movie clips from our Motion video tutorials to develop our own DVD. In actuality, whether the video format is DV, HDV or MPEG-4, the desktop screen is not a good material to use for DVD. Unless it’s fairly zoomed in, the desktop screen is not a good DVD material especially for full-screen viewing because of video artifacts.
In this first video tutorial of the series, we will go over iMovie HD 6’s preferences and video formats. This video tutorial is intended for those who have little knowledge about video compression. So we go over some basic questions like which frame rate to choose, what is DV, what’s the difference between HDV 1080i and HDV 720p, what are the best audio and video settings in importing MPEG-4 clips and so forth. Depending on the settings of the video, it could take hours to import it to iMovie or it could just take minutes or seconds to import it. So it is essential that the video camera or the screen capture program is correctly set up before importing clips to iMovie in the first place.
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There appears to be nothing wrong with this video. What is your QuickTime version? The QuickTime playback glitch is all caused by Apple, and we’ve been forced to fix all QuickTime videos to be compatible with QuickTime 7.15, 7.16 and 7.20. If the problem insists, try updating your QuickTime to 7.2 and then please try it again. I apologize for your inconvenience, but, again, the playback glitch is all caused by Apple.