Help! My Movie Music Is Screwed Up!!!!, disaster....fear and loathing... Options

[tokyoroland]

I finished editing my music into my brother's movie in imovie ( the latest one ) on OSX. I burned it to dvd-r and when I play it, the sound totally screws up halfway through the movie!!! This is odd because it works just fine imovie and the qucktime movie is fine, too.

I thought it was a faulty dvd-r, but I tried another one and it did the exact same thing! help! possible errors:

1) the sound was mastered wrong. ( the girl who transferred it to cd from minidisc mastered it at a low level, so I turned up the volume ( normalized it) in Spark.

2) Maybe I didn't format the dvd-r. Do I need to?

It isn't my computer because it messes up on my external dvd player as well as when I put it in my computer and play it.

PLEASE HELP! I don't know what to do, and I really want to finish this film. Should I go back to the music and NOT normalize it??

ANY suggestions will help...

- Jeffro

[Levon River]

Can you be a little more specific than "totally screws up"? How it screws up may have everything to do with narrowing down what the problem is. Normalizing the file shouldn't be the problem, especially if, as you say, it plays fine in iMovie and Quicktime. And you don't want to waste time chasing red herrings.

Have you loaded the normalized file into any other audio application and checked it there? What's the rate you used for saving it? 44.1? 48? Do you know?

Any additional information you can give on the exact nature of what happens to the sound after it's written to DVD will go a long way toward people being able to help you debug it.