DVD burning problem

[Don Greening]

HI Nick,

There may be a lot of reasons why your DVD-R doesn’t want to play smoothly, too numerous to mention here without having more information about your system on which to recommend a course of action.

Does your disc consistantly stutter all the way through or just in certain areas? If the trouble is just in certain areas, are the problems in the exact same spots each time?

What have you played your DVD on? Just your Mac? Have you tried playing it on more than one consumer DVD player?

Are you using quality DVD media? There’s a substantial playability difference between cheap media and quality media.

– Don

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[Nickporter]

Hi Don

Thanks for getting back to me. The DVD seems to constantly stuttering but is most noticeable when the camera is panning around rather than stationery.

I have tried playing the DVD both on my Mac and a regular DVD player and the problem is the same on both,

I think the DVD

[Cm Creative media]

Depending on what you mean by “stutter” it could also be the field order, if you had the choice to select it. If it DV footage then you want bottom selected and usually even use the auto select to do the choosing if you are not sure. As the other post mentioned, there are so very many factors that can cause slow and stutter issues with DVD playback. Check the trouble shooting in teh iDVD or similar forums that pertain specifically to the software that you formatted the QT movie to Mpeg2 in.

Good Luck

Craig Moore
CM Creative Media

[Don Greening]

Hi Nick,

Have you used this same workflow in the past with success or is this the first time? If you’ve had previous successes then you need to ask yourself if there’s anything you’ve done differently this time around. I’m assuming you’re exporting a self-contained QT movie from FCP and then simply importing it into iDVD and letting that program do the encoding, is this correct?

– Does your self contained movie play okay when using Quicktime player to view it?
– Does the encoded mpeg2 version of your movie play okay in Quicktime player or in iDVD’s simulation mode?
– if you’ve answered yes to the above 2 questions then try trashing iDVD’s preference files and then do another encode. If the iDVD preference file has become corrupt, trashing it may solve the problem. Here’s the path to finding your iDVD pref. file:

Macintosh HD>Users>”yourname”>Library>Preferences>com.apple.iDVD.plist

After you’ve restarted iDVD, reset all your preferences before continuing.

[nickporter] “The DVD seems to constantly stuttering but is most noticeable when the camera is panning around rather than stationery. “

This could very well be an interlacing field order issue, as Craig Moore has suggested in his reply. But bear in mind that it’s just one possible solution, albeit a very good one.

[nickporter] “I think the DVD