Error during rendering/encoding message

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Error during rendering/encoding message

I am receiving the following error when trying to burn my first DVD from iDVD (i.e so high probability I'm doing something wrong). 'There was an error during rendering/encoding of the menus/slideshows. The burning process has been cancelled'. I have approx. 45 mins. of footage and I'm using a maxell 4.7GB 16x DVD+R. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks...

Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jan 12, 2011 1:02 PM

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F Shippey

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Jan 12, 2011 1:08 PM in response to pfitzsim

The usual cause of this sort of error message is lack of free space on your boot up hard drive. For a 45 minute project, you probably need from 15 to 25 GB free. How much free space do you have? (Note that space on external drives doesn't count.)

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pfitzsim Author

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Jan 12, 2011 1:32 PM in response to F Shippey

Good question - I'm a fairly new Mac user - how do I tell how much space I have. I only have a few hours of video footage and approx. 3,000 photos on the hard drive so I imagine I would be fine.

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F Shippey

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Jan 12, 2011 1:53 PM in response to pfitzsim

Snow Leopard makes it little more difficult to describe.

In your menu bar (top of screen) select GO>COMPUTER

You will see your hard drive listed; click on it to select it

In your menu bar (top of screen) select FILE>GET INFO

This will show the Available space on that drive (along with many other things)

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pfitzsim Author

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Jan 12, 2011 4:00 PM in response to F Shippey

Thanks - 105GB free

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F Shippey

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Jan 12, 2011 4:30 PM in response to pfitzsim

When you go to the MAP view in iDVD (the one box over two boxes logo) do you see any yellow caution triangles?

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pfitzsim Author

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Jan 13, 2011 5:59 AM in response to F Shippey

No caution triangles. I started a new copy from scratch and it burned successfully. I attempted to add iTunes music to the menu of the original version (that didn't burn) so perhaps this may have been the problem. I skipped the music on round 2 which worked - although that being said I would rather have the music. Thanks....

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Answer 7

Jan 23, 2011 7:37 PM in response to pfitzsim

I am having this same exact problem except I am using a DVD-R and trying to record about 15 minutes of video. I checked the map thing on iDVD and there are no errors but there are no thumbnails for the videos. 3 out of the 4 videos I am using I downloaded off the internet with a video downloader (I forgot what it is called but it is somehow related to ant.com?). Please help!

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F Shippey

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Jan 23, 2011 7:47 PM in response to dalemg239

3 out of the 4 videos I am using I downloaded off the internet with a video downloader

There are many video formats used on the web that are NOT compatible with iDVD.

Please start a new message thread with more information about the encoding used in your videos. Do they play with the Quickime player is also important to know.

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Carolus

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Jan 24, 2011 11:11 AM in response to F Shippey

I encountered the same problem (Mac Pro intel, OS 10.6.6, iDVD 7.1.1). I want to create a PAL Projekt 16:9 with one main menue (no music) containing three items: (there's no start-object)

1. a slide-show (JPEG's of different size and aspect ratio, displaying fine in preview)
2. a MPEG 4 Video (720p) suitable for Apple TV
3. a second Video, same specification

all together it takes about 2.8GB coded in "professional quality"

*The rendering process terminates with the same error-message (only in German ;)*

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F Shippey

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Jan 24, 2011 11:58 AM in response to Carolus

For PAL 16:9 slideshows, size your images to 1024x576 pixels. Sometimes iDVD is 'unhappy' with large image files.

displaying fine in preview

That is no guarantee they will actually encode.

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Carolus

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Jan 24, 2011 2:07 PM in response to F Shippey

F Shippey wrote:
For PAL 16:9 slideshows, size your images to 1024x576 pixels. Sometimes iDVD is 'unhappy' with large image files.

If this is true, I consider iDVD to be buggy in this detail.

Anyway - I will retry the job without slideshow. If then even the menue needs reformatted pictures to be dropped into the drop zones, I will go away from iDVD. It's better then, to use DVD Studio Pro

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F Shippey

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Jan 24, 2011 2:53 PM in response to Carolus

It's better then, to use DVD Studio Pro

It uses the same Quicktime resize resources as iDVD.

All I'm trying to do is help you use iDVD. I personally, have found I get better slideshow image quality when I resized my images in Photoshop. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6675.html

You might also try creating a disk image file (.img) which is an option under FILE in iDVD. This separates the encoding/multiplexing process from the burning process.

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Carolus

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Jan 25, 2011 2:17 AM in response to F Shippey

F Shippey wrote:

All I'm trying to do is help you use iDVD. I personally, have found I get better slideshow image quality when I resized my images in Photoshop. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6675.html

Thank you for your answer. Resizing the stills with PS may give better picture quality, I admit. But, letting iDVD do the job is definitively not the reason for the encoding error. I created the same slide-DVD with the same version of iDVD on my MBP - no errors! Obviously there is something wrong with iDVD on my MPro. (I use always the process of saving an image firstly, in order to avoid spoiling DVD's) I'll try creating the project from scratch again.

btw: I couldn't add audio to the menue. After adding an audio file, it's icon is added to the menue-Symbol, but the menue remains mute. Is this a "feature", or what else can I do?

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ntahall

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May 26, 2011 6:15 AM in response to pfitzsim

Most of these errors are an old bug in iDVD that has been around for years. There are lots of discussion threads about it and lots of red herrings. The issue is usally that iDVD won't render the menu when it is muted. You can tell if it's muted by using the inspector so check whether there's a sound track, but you don't hear it.

Try the menu un-mute instructions here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1572186?start=0&tstart=0

(Note, it is not easy to find the un-mute. It is there... it took me 10 minutes to find...)

Complain to Apple about this here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/idvd.html

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