Can't Burn DVD - keep getting "Error during rendering/encoding"...Help!

Have you run Software Update to make sure your computer is up-to-date? Leopard needs updates to applications and to itself.

Tell us more about the audio you're using. Where from? iTunes protected files? Ripped from your CDs? MP3? AIFF? Downloaded from some Web site?

Is the audio added within iDVD? If so, how?

Just a thought - have you checked the Quicktime folder (within the LIBRARY folder) to see if you have anything in there that might be causing issues with the encoding process? I have eyeTV installed and it's installation added an eyeTV mpeg file and a divx file in there. I moved these elsewhere and my encoding errors (and most multiplexing) problems went away.

It's worth looking into. I created a subfolder within the QUICKTIME folder called Disabled and just drug the questionable files into it.

Good luck!!!

HI!

Did you manage to resolve this problem? I'm a new Apple Macbook Pro user and my first project is to burn all my holiday photos and videos (from sunny California!) .. I've encountered the same problem!!

Audrey

Hi Audrey,

Welcome to the Macintosh! It's not usually problematic.

Are your photos from a digital camera? Are the videos from the same camera? What brand and model camera are you using?

Have you tried to create a disc image?

Hi Len,

Thanks so much for your reply...

Yes, all the photos and video clips were taken from the same camera..Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Lumix camera. I have tried to create a disc image and got the same error message. I've looked at the audio tracks and they are not all MP3 format some are M4a...so i'm going to try and delete these and add MP3 format audio tracks... maybe this will do the trick!!

I appreciate your help, will let you know if this works!

Audrey

Hi Len,

Tried removing the 'M4a' audio tracks and save as disc image...it didn't work, got the same error message!

Any other suggestions would be gratefully received.

Audrey

You could try removing the video files to see if that's the problem. There's so many possibilities that this may be the only solution: strip it down until it works.

Before you try a new disc image, go to Advanced/Delete Encoded Assets first.

You do have 20GB+ free on your hard drive?

I'm having the same problem. I think it is with the iDVD7.0 Themes. When I switched to a 6.0 theme, I burned my DVD on the first try... nothing else changed.


I wish there was an update to the 7.0 themes that would make them work!

Hi,

I have a new mac with Leopard since a week, and I had the same problem ("error during rendering / encoding..."). This happened when burning to a disk image.

I tried a lot of things :
* very small project
* create a new user
* put pictures in a folder, and not drag them from iphoto
* change the theme

I still had the same problem.

The last thing I tried was to put all the files used by idvd on the hard disk (instead of of an external firewire disk).

It worked ! (with the small size project).
I'm trying to burn the large project again...

I will tell you if it succeeds...

Best regards,

Nicolas

Well it worked,

I managed to create the disk image, having all the files and the disk image on the computer hard drive.

Will it be useful to you ?

Over the years here, I've seen having the iDVD project file and trying to create a disc image on an external hard drive *will cause problems*. FireWire is just too slow... Having the "raw materials" like digital images and captured video on an external drive *should not cause problems*.

Try making an image file. Also make sure the computer is set to never sleep and hard drives always on. I had encounter a similar problem but in Tiger but can't remember where I came across this suggestion. So anytime I create a DVD I make an image file. Load the image either disk utility or Toast and make a copy. 99% successful !!

Ciao,
Lou Cioccio

Hey Guys, I had the same problem, and I tried every recommendation. So, I gave in and called the smart people at apple. 🙂, He made me delete some files.Here they are:
P.S. Get ride can mean move to desktop or trash (don't trash until you know it worked)

Go to finder
*Serve-Library-Quicktime-(then get ride of anything But ApplIntermediantCodec.component, and AppleMPEG2Codec.component)

*Home-Library-caches-com.apple.idvd- (get ride of ride of it all)

*Home-Preference-(get ride of com.apple.IDVD.plist)


I hope this works.

Ben