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My brother just shot a film and put it on a dvd, and he wanted me to rip it, and make it pretty using my mac.
I ripped his movie using handbrake with the presets for quicktime. This produced a 1.5GB .mp4 file that QuickTime can play. I tried importing it into iMovie to try and split it up into a few chapters, but iMovie froze. I then figured that the chapters weren't needed, so I threw it straight into iDVD. iDVD then told me that it was too long. I went to the project info and saw that the project was 5.6GB! I set it to best quality instead of better performance and that fixed that (brought it back down to about 3GB). I put a simple menu (to test) in the project and saved it. I then tried to burn it to a dvd, and iDVD takes quite a while to process the menus and things, then it gets to the actual video that I put in there. This is where it freezes. What can I do to get this going?
Edit: I tried installing 10.4 (using the OEM install disk that came with my computer) onto a removeable drive. I got that done, but when I drag the file in question to a frame thing in iDVD, i get really small text that says i need to get some kind of codec i think. I updated QT and iDVD through software update and it didn't help the problem. QuickTime can now play the file, but when in iDVD the frame view still shows that text instead of the stilshot of the video. So when I get home, I'm going to update everything that software update can update. Maybe there is just a small bug with slightly older versions of the iLife package working in 10.5
I ripped his movie using handbrake with the presets for quicktime. This produced a 1.5GB .mp4 file that QuickTime can play. I tried importing it into iMovie to try and split it up into a few chapters, but iMovie froze. I then figured that the chapters weren't needed, so I threw it straight into iDVD. iDVD then told me that it was too long. I went to the project info and saw that the project was 5.6GB! I set it to best quality instead of better performance and that fixed that (brought it back down to about 3GB). I put a simple menu (to test) in the project and saved it. I then tried to burn it to a dvd, and iDVD takes quite a while to process the menus and things, then it gets to the actual video that I put in there. This is where it freezes. What can I do to get this going?
Edit: I tried installing 10.4 (using the OEM install disk that came with my computer) onto a removeable drive. I got that done, but when I drag the file in question to a frame thing in iDVD, i get really small text that says i need to get some kind of codec i think. I updated QT and iDVD through software update and it didn't help the problem. QuickTime can now play the file, but when in iDVD the frame view still shows that text instead of the stilshot of the video. So when I get home, I'm going to update everything that software update can update. Maybe there is just a small bug with slightly older versions of the iLife package working in 10.5