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"Error #-1 was reported..." No disk image created

I created a new project, using the iDVD 4.0 movie projector theme. I dropped a 75 minute movie onto the theme that I created in Final Cut Pro and exported as a self contained movie. It has chapters and there are 5 pages of scene selection submenus. I put a :30 clip into the drop zone in the main menu and each of the submenu pages. I changed the default font to American Typewriter, and its color to white instead of the default color. All seemed well.

I chose Save as Disk Image and let it rip. I checked on it occasionally, and it seemed to be burning right along; I could see the footage passing in the burn window. At the end of the ordeal, I got a message that "Error #-1 was reported...", and I have no disk image and no encoded assets.

What's up with that? I had saved an almost identical project as a disk image a couple of days ago, and have used the same two movies for this one. The differences are that I made a couple of fixes in the movie, and that I exported as self contained instead of reference movie.

I have been using iDVD 5 since it came out, and had very good luck. But this project is giving me a headache. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

BC

G4 450DP, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 1.63GB RAM, 16" Paiste China Crash

Posted on Dec 29, 2007 2:41 PM

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Jan 1, 2008 10:24 AM in response to BCDrums

Today, I tried to change the theme for a 5.0 one, but as soon as the video enconding was complete, iDVD turned off automatically, and I lost all my encoded files again...
Just the same was happening when I was trying to a 4.0 theme in iDVD 5.0, as reported in this forum.
Did anybody experience the same trouble? Dould anybondy solve this?

Jan 1, 2008 5:28 PM in response to BBarros

To follow up on this, I found that by switching to a completely different theme, my error message did not recur. So then I went back to my original theme (the movie projector) and did a test with a short clip, and I did not get the error.

I did the test on the movie projector theme without changing anything about it; when I first did the project that generated the error, I had made changes to the font, position and color of the theme, and I had five pages of scene selection submenus. It's possible that something I edited didn't agree with iDVD, and I got my error.

But it was INFURIATING to wait six hours for a disc image to burn, only to find that it didn't work. In the end, I decided to go without a menu and have an autoplay DVD. I used a method I found here in the discussions:

http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/nothemedvd

I used the one labeled the hard way. It worked great!

BC
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"Error #-1 was reported..." No disk image created

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