When you exit the preview during a slideshow, you're taken directly to the Slideshow editor instead of the menu.
Clicking the Exit button on the remote control takes you out of Preview mode.
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Remember that Best Quality does not encode in the background. Many people mistakenly wait for the progress bars in the Status pane to appear, to no avail. Encoding begins when you burn the disc.
If you're using Best Performance with background encoding enabled, wait until the assets have finished encoding before you burn the disc.
Projects longer than 60 minutes are more likely to have reduced image quality due to the higher degree of compression required to fit on a disc.
Use the DVD Capacity figure to gauge how much space your project will occupy on the disc. Also, the numbers change depending on whether or not Motion is enabled.
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Make sure you have plenty of hard disk space before you burn: at least twice the size of your project.
Enable the Motion button before burning to make sure motion elements are included.
Blank CDs can be bought for pennies apiece, but DVDs are still on the higher edge of the price range (but dropping). However, buying in bulk from online stores such as www.shop4tech.com, or www.dealnews.com can get you prices well below $1 per disc.
Remember that the total space occupied on the disc includes motion menus, slideshows, and the like. So, if your movie is 52 minutes long, you may still get an error message that the project is too big.
Including transitions between menus or within slideshows increases the burning time.
After your DVD is burned, label it with a permanent marker; adhesive labels can unbalance the disc during play and potentially damage your DVD player.
Test the DVD on several DVD players and computers.
