Share stops at 76%

129KB looks pretty small, but what are the width and height, in pixels, of that jpg?

Don't share directly to a disc.

Use the Device: Hard Drive

in the settings. This creates a .img file on your drive, that you can then "burn" to disc as many times as you like, without needing to reexport. You can also test this .img file using DVD Player on your mac before committing to a disc.

Try Share->DVD and choose Device: Hard Drive.

As was said already by me and Tom, this will create a .img file on your drive.

If this succeeds, you can control-click this .img file in the Finder and choose Burn.

If exporting to a disk image as described still fails, then there could be a way to force the “Create Disc” embedded application (the part of FCP responsible for finishing the creation of a disc or image) to start.

If you want this for use in a DVD player use the DVD preset. As Luis advised export to Hard Drive to create a disk image and burn that to the DVD.

Are you sure it is 76% and not 66%?

This is where encoding finishes and the actual creation of a disc begins.

Are you exporting to the actual DVD drive or to the hard drive (creating an img file)?

Do you have an image selected for DVD menu background? How big is it?

It is not that FCP does not allow burning straight to disc. It DOES.

However, I never did it. Why? For the reasons I mentioned above.

1) I wanted to test the result before wasting a disc;

2) I wanted to be able to make multiple copies and not have to repeat the share process.

Also, my current mac (and my previous one) does not even have a DVD drive. If I were to make a DVD, I could still share to the hard drive and take the file to an older mac and burn from the Finder.

And, since you experienced a failed export, you could have tried it in DVD Player and not waste a disc.

Your background image should work, but you could try scaling the image in Preview by 50%. It would still be more than big enough for the DVD's 720x480.

Hope you’re not wanting to do this for playback. DVD is much too slow to support the data rate of ProRes, and ProRes cannot be used for playback in a DVD player.

What export settings are you actually using?