iDVD hangs up in "creating your DVD"

I just got a new iMac and am using the latest iDVD version to write a short video I shot (only 14 minutes long) as a test. It has two simple chapter marks. The iMovie encodes well and I send it to iDVD. It asks for a disk (I am using DVD-R) then the Burn icon starts rotating... and rotating ... and rotating. Three hours later I gave up and cancelled the burn. The current operation is "writing" but nothing has happened in three hours. Any help
I have burned much longer complex stuff in the previous iDVD on my G3

Posted on Oct 7, 2005 11:43 AM

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Oct 7, 2005 3:42 PM in response to Bill Young4

It has two simple chapter marks.


Make sure no chapter markers are within two seconds of the start or end of the timeline. Make sure no chapter markers are within a transition. Make sure no chapter markers are within two seconds of the end of a transition.

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iDVD 5.0.1 may appear to hang for a few minutes during audio encoding. See my Topic:

Len Goff, "iDVD 5 appears "hung" at audio encoding", 11:41am May 11, 2005 CDT

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Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927

This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.

Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (not the .img, the one below) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. Your SuperDrive tray will open. Insert a recordable DVD. (DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Then click the Burn button.

-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.

b Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD 5 project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

Oct 8, 2005 3:34 AM in response to Len Goff

Thanks but the plot thickens. In iMovie, I can play the disk fine in the preview mode. I sat and watched the progress. THe movie encodes in iDVD fine but stops at burns to disk. I burned a disk image instead and it was "successful" by iDVD. An .img file was created. I opened this and a new drive showed up. However, when I tried to burn the disk created by the .img file I got an encoding error from Toast. Disk Utility also says the disk is invalid. The disk created by the iDVD had only the first introductory panel and no movie. Should I just reinstall iDVD?

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