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If any of you can answer the following questions, perhaps I then will be able to turn out a decent DVD.
My project was a 57 min.( just under 4 GB) video of a wedding. Did all the importing, transitions, effects etc. in iMovie. Previewed it a couple hundred times before I turned it over to iDVD. iDVD was a trip trying to learn how to alter a theme, add photos, audio and setting up chapters. But, figured it out. Saved it and burned the project. When I played it, the audio from original footage (not what I added in effects) lagged just a bit from the video. Made the whole project look stupid. Looked like an old Godzilla movie.
Heres my questions:
1. How important is it to enable asset encoding in the background?
2. Any ideas why the sound and video(of the original DV camcorder footage) was off sync.? I did do a little trimming and splitting. The footage was not off-sync. when viewed as preview in both iMovie and iDVD.
3. Is the final product always rendered as a Quicktime movie?
4. Will I always be left with with (3) movie files when completed, 1 original iMovie file, 1 quicktime file and 1 DVD file? (lots of disc usage here!)
The reason why I ask about the enable background encoding is because for another attempt, I turned off background encoding. Not only did it take longer to complete, but I had (2) system failures on the mighty G5!! Absolutely locked it solid. Left all types of wording in black bands across the screen. This sort of shook me as the G5 has been rock solid since I bought it last May.
I bought this mac with plans to do a lot of video editing. This was my really first attempt to crank out a movie. I'm sure that it was my doing that caused the problems. Until I buy a book on how to make movies in iLife'04, any words of wisdom will greatly be appreciated.
My project was a 57 min.( just under 4 GB) video of a wedding. Did all the importing, transitions, effects etc. in iMovie. Previewed it a couple hundred times before I turned it over to iDVD. iDVD was a trip trying to learn how to alter a theme, add photos, audio and setting up chapters. But, figured it out. Saved it and burned the project. When I played it, the audio from original footage (not what I added in effects) lagged just a bit from the video. Made the whole project look stupid. Looked like an old Godzilla movie.
Heres my questions:
1. How important is it to enable asset encoding in the background?
2. Any ideas why the sound and video(of the original DV camcorder footage) was off sync.? I did do a little trimming and splitting. The footage was not off-sync. when viewed as preview in both iMovie and iDVD.
3. Is the final product always rendered as a Quicktime movie?
4. Will I always be left with with (3) movie files when completed, 1 original iMovie file, 1 quicktime file and 1 DVD file? (lots of disc usage here!)
The reason why I ask about the enable background encoding is because for another attempt, I turned off background encoding. Not only did it take longer to complete, but I had (2) system failures on the mighty G5!! Absolutely locked it solid. Left all types of wording in black bands across the screen. This sort of shook me as the G5 has been rock solid since I bought it last May.
I bought this mac with plans to do a lot of video editing. This was my really first attempt to crank out a movie. I'm sure that it was my doing that caused the problems. Until I buy a book on how to make movies in iLife'04, any words of wisdom will greatly be appreciated.