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Formatting Failed. Building not successful. See log.

I keep getting a 'Formatting Failed. Building not successful. See log.' error every time I try to burn a project.

I created the movie using Final Cut Pro, exported it to Compressor, and then submitting it using the DVD: Best Quality 120 minutes preset. I got 2 files, an m2v and an ac3 file which I assume is the video and the audio. I imported it to DVDSP as assets and then inserted a blank DVD ready to burn and I get that error when I try to burn.

I tried burning several times and getting the same error. First time using Final Cut Studio.

FYI: It's a 1h and 43 minutes video.

This is my log:


Starting DVD Build UNTITLED_DISC...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project UNTITLED_DISC
No Video or Still Assets found in Track:Track 1

Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.
Starting DVD Build UNTITLED_DISC...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project UNTITLED_DISC
No Video or Still Assets found in Track:Track 1

Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.
Starting DVD Build UNTITLED_DISC...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project UNTITLED_DISC
No Video or Still Assets found in Track:Track 1

Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.

MacBook Pro (Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.7), N/A

Posted on Jul 4, 2009 7:12 PM

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Jul 6, 2009 4:12 PM in response to Khaizz

I am having exactly the same problem, which suddenly started happening. I have been successfully authoring DVD projects with DVD Studio Pro for about 2 years, so I know how to set up projects and output them properly. When I select "Burn" I get a failure message during the build process which tells me nothing other than the fact that that the build failed. To determine if the optical drive was faulty I checked playback of DVDs and data burning to a blank DVD from the Mac OS and both worked fine. Then I tried doing a separate Build and Format and that worked as well. But, I cannot seem to do the one step Burn that I have done dozens of time before. I can't imagine that this has any relationship to the problem, but I recently replaced the 750 GB Media Drive with three 1 TB drives, set up as a RAID, but did not touch the 750 GB Boot Drive. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Formatting Failed. Building not successful. See log.

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