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iDVD crashes when using 7.0 themes

I am using iDVD for a school project. I was using the theme "Revolution", put all my videos and slideshows. I used preview to check it and the main menu came up. I clicked for one of my submenus and the transition started. My computer showed the beach ball and then froze. Everything, from the dock to the program itself. I had to hold the power button to restart.

I opened iDVD again and tried going to the submenu first then using preview. I now had the submenu in preview, I clicked a button to go back to the main menu and same problem.

Next I tried to burn a DVD to avoid preview and while rendering the menus it froze again.

I decided to switch to a 6.0 theme and everything worked fine, even burning a DVD. When I decided to use a different 7.0 theme the same problem occured. I believe my 7.0 themes are corrupted and iDVD does not recognize they are.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? The 7.0 themes are much nicer for the project I am doing. Can I download the 7.0 themes from somewhere?

P.S. I tried reinstalling iLife and iDVD several times as well as updating and no progress.

Macbook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo), Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Nov 25, 2007 12:22 AM

56 replies

Jan 13, 2008 9:22 AM in response to jdlovell

I have an aluminum 24" iMac and iDVD is exhibiting the same behaviour, "Encoderserver (Not Responding)" and "ThumbnailServer (Not Responding)". The problem is not specific to Macbook Pro's.

Len Goff

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Jan 13, 2008 11:40 AM in response to Steven Slupsky

+iMac Mac OS X (10.5)+

Have you updated to 10.5.1? And iDVD 7.0.1?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306062

Jan 13, 2008 5:50 PM in response to Len Goff

Hi,

Yes. I re-installed iDVD and the upgrade. I then think I identified the problem. iDVD appears to hang if you import a clip that has broken links to the assets. I had a clip that for some reason or another lost a couple links to a couple rendered clips. iDVD did not provide any sort of error message but when I tried to load the clip into Quicktime, I got an error message.

I'm running a couple tests now to see if the problem is fixed.

Steve

Jan 15, 2008 5:27 AM in response to jrod07

Just got my new mac and trying to use dvd 08, after being a regular user of earlier versions.. Having read the trail of discussions on this topic i find myself with the same problems but not sure of the or if there is a solution.. Have tried to burn a fairly basic dvd, (theme intro, movie), and can't get it passed the encoding menu stage.. have tried 7.0 and 6.0 themes.. A part of this might be because i can't seem to get the theme music to a) play or to b) change..

Any answers, advice would be welcome.
Thanks

Jan 15, 2008 7:21 AM in response to jrod07

I continue to have problems with 6 and 7.0 themes. I am using the old themes and it is working. But, one thing I have discovered is that one need to have at least 40 Gigs of free space in the main HD and the same or more in the scratch disc ( I purchased a WD 1Tb external drive just for this type of work. Very inexpensive). Never use your internal HD for saving your video data. Do it all in your external hard drive. Leave your internal HD for your operating system and applications. Also, do not use your video editing computer as a general use computer. Uninstall all unimportant applications. The chances of corrupting your important editing programs is increased by adding unnecessary applications and/or plug-ins.
Victor

Jan 16, 2008 2:02 PM in response to Rob Loomis

Another update:

I re-installed iDVD and it still is not working. I give up. All iDVD project are now be being done on the iMac.

Jan 21, 2008 4:01 AM in response to vaulestia

Well add me to the loooooooooong list of render crashes, i'm using a macbookpro 2.4, leopard, idvd 08, and yes, its not working

and looks like no one can resolve this, so gotta sit back and wait till Apple pull their finger out...

oh joy

Jan 21, 2008 5:32 AM in response to James Shead

Same problem as all the rest of you here. Macbook pro 2.4, leopard 10.5.1, idvd 8 latest update. Computer locks up solid at different points during the creation process.
I was on the phone with apple support for four hours, I reintstalled everything even the entire leopard operating system, a nervous moment for this amateur, but nothing has worked or solved my problem. Of course I am very disappointed, and feel I spent $300 for extra support for nothing. Now I am looking for other DVD creation programs, since IDVD is useless to me. Any suggestions?

Jan 21, 2008 10:04 AM in response to frdkchitown

The problem is specific to a MacBook Pro. I tried a test in an AppleStore. All MacBook Pro had crashed when i created an iDVD08 slideshow with themes 07.

The Apple staff, now, know the problem!!!

Use an other Mac.

Len Goff

Level 6

17,911 points

Jan 21, 2008 10:41 AM in response to frdkchitown

"Any suggestions?"

http://www.apple.com/feedback/idvd.html

Jan 21, 2008 1:06 PM in response to Len Goff

I posted my negative feedback explaining the problem, if we all do this then they have to do something... hopefully 🙂

Len Goff

Level 6

17,911 points

Jan 21, 2008 1:11 PM in response to James Shead

"if we all do this then they have to do something... hopefully"

That's the idea. They have responded to some of my problems that way. 🙂

I have reported the Revolution theme problem with editing menu text. No update yet.

Jan 21, 2008 6:58 PM in response to Len Goff

I have also had the same problem with IDVD crashing my whole system. It is very disappointing. I have also reported this to apple hopefully they will fix this bug.

Jan 26, 2008 12:17 PM in response to AppleGeek692

This weeks 10.5.2 update (Probably this week, at least - It was expected yesterday..) comes with a Graphics Driver Update for Leopard - As its 'NVbla' stuff which is logged as erroring - i bet that'll be fixed as part of it 🙂

Jan 26, 2008 8:19 PM in response to jrod07

i am having the same issues..only iDVD freezes for me no matter if i use a 6.0 or 7.0 theme. i'm quite disappointed..because i just got my laptop for christmas and can't burn any DVD's. i have movies from concerts i've been to that I want to burn and it just completely freezes anytime. it's so annoyinggg.

i really hope we get a fix soon.

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