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Dec 13, 2005 8:47 AM

iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes

I seem to remember conflicting answers on whether you can use songs that you bought at the ITMS within your iMovie and iDvd projects and have them play on home DVD players correctly.

Anyone know for sure?

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RichL

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1. Dec 13, 2005 1:22 PM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
Well it "SHOULD" work but here are the workarounds:
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1003.shtml
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2. Dec 13, 2005 3:23 PM in response to: DanSlagle
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
Thanks for the link.

I had used Wiretap and the other method listed there, but I was not sure if I HAD to use another way or just pull the song into IMovie 5 HD and use it.

So...even with your excellent link, I'm still not sure if I can just pull a protected song from ITMS right into my project and have it work as intended?

BTW, Using Tiger, Imovie 5 HD and QT latest rev, iDVD 5

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3. Dec 13, 2005 4:11 PM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
To play it safe I always burn the purchased songs to CD then import them back into iTunes (often times mp3 flavor)-->iMovie-->iDVD...and all view/sounds sweet.

-doug
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4. Dec 13, 2005 4:46 PM in response to: dougster
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
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To play it safe I always burn the purchased songs to CD

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I agree and I've been doing that or using Wiretap.
I was trying to figure out if I could avoid those extra steps.....or not?

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5. Dec 15, 2005 5:03 AM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
There is no reason it should not work with iMovie 5. If it doesn't you may want to trash your iMovie and iTunes plist. Then open iTunes then iMovie. In that order.
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6. Dec 15, 2005 8:01 AM in response to: DanSlagle
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
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There is no reason it should not work with iMovie 5.

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??????
I'm confused by your post??
I have no problem inserting itunes tunes into an iMovie 5 movie?

All I wanted to understand was can I place AAC (Protected) music song I bought in the iTunes store into an iMovie movie or iDVD DVD and have the resulting burned DVD play that music in a commercial DVD player?

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7. Dec 15, 2005 10:23 AM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
I tested this the morning. You can use iMovie (via the audio tab) to import "Purchased" audio.

I did not try dragging a purchased song to iMovie but assume it would also work.

iMovie does do a DRM authentication before converting the file for use.

Note: You could spend a whole $1 and check my work
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8. Dec 15, 2005 3:22 PM in response to: DanSlagle
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
Dan:

I KNOW that you can pull iTunes purchased songs into iMovie and iDvd. I do it all the time.
It's AFTER you do that and burn your movie to a DVD that comes into question.

Once you start the DVD will the movie you edited with the AAC protected song play just anywhere???
Will the Movie with the protected song play on your home DVD player...or is the fact that it is protected prevent it from playing anywhere except on your authorized Mac?

That is the question I'm trying to discover the answer too....

Thanks for your effort...

RichL

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9. Dec 15, 2005 6:31 PM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
Well the protected ACC format did not exist when the DVD format came out so... Without actually burning a DVD... I am gonna say it converts it to a DVD standard format.

Oh I have an idea...
Create a SHORT movie with iMovie then add an .M4P (protected audio file) Next create a disk image of that "project" in iDVD. Mount the image file in the finder. If you look in the disk image file you will see the format is now a muxed VOB file. The audio and video have been mixed. PCM stereo.
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10. Dec 19, 2005 8:54 AM in response to: DanSlagle
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
For what it's worth, I burned a DVD last night with a protected iTunes song (.m4p) in it, and I had no problem playing it back on my regular DVD player. This is with the latest version of iTunes and the iLife '05 suite on an eMac with a super drive.

One thing I noticed in working with protected songs in iMovie: if you create a new project in iMovie and add a protected song to the timeline, iMovie will not let you export (via the "share" menu) the song by itself. I suspect this is to prevent people from using iMovie to strip off the DRM features of iTunes. However, if you add a video clip of greater or equal length, iMovie will let you export the combined clip to any format you want.
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11. Dec 19, 2005 11:02 AM in response to: RichL
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-Rich,
OK...I just created an iMovie film clippings (iLife v4.x) dropping several photos, and using an iTunes AAC purchased song (background music)-->iDVD-->DVD-R->played fine on our Sony DVD Player. So the next time I create an iMovie I won't bother converting the AAC file.

-doug
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12. Dec 19, 2005 12:54 PM in response to: gsp123
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
This is helpful.

Explains that we just may be able to use "protected" music without going through an extra set of actions.

thanks

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13. Dec 19, 2005 12:56 PM in response to: dougster
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
Dougster:

This is very encouraging.

So I'm beginning to guess that we can use "protected" music in our iMovie/iDVD creations without going through the extra steps of copying to CD first or using Wiretap.

thanks for checking....

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14. Dec 19, 2005 2:18 PM in response to: RichL
Re: iTunes/iMovie using AAC protected Tunes
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This is very encouraging.

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I think so since I've never done it that way in the past. But it kinda makes sense. We can burn Protected AAC iTunes music-->to CD-->play it in cars,home DVD Players, and boom-boxes. So why not iDVD ;-)

-doug
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