IDVD "error during formatting"
😍 ok so this is my first movie...and I must say I had to figure a lot of things by myself...dispite all of the help from others and what seemed to work for others on forums, discusions, so on and so forth...it didn't help for me...so I ussually have to figure these things out on my own...but I thought I would give it a try in asking anyway.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR ANSWER UNDERSTANDABLE NOT LONG AND IF POSSIBLE GIVE INSTRUCTIONS!!! (thank u X3)
If you are still reading this then thank you :3 lol
ok firstly
(1) there is no problem with how many videos and how much music I have on the menu(s), trust me...I know
(2) I have much content...(don't make me count)...I have a movie and extras...but like I said that shouldn't be a problem
(3) I have made a dvd before and it worked fine!
Short Summery (and by short I mean moderately not too long)
At first my movie contained too many sub-menus in my extras (too many being 4) (most people said the problem was because of too much video in the sub-menu...well...they were wrong) so I reduced it down to 3 and it seemed fine, but then I ran into another problem...there was just too much content...so I when to project> project info> and changed it to high quality.
I later wondered, if I put it on "profesional quality" would it allow me to have all 4 of my original sub-menus? I ended up putting my dvd in, and checked to see what the quality looked like (which it looked nothing like how it looked on my computer!! POOR QUALITY!!....or I could just be saying that because I'm a perfectionist and things like that bother me....ok....to the normal human eye the quality was fine)
I wanted to change a few things, so I decided "what the 'hey'" and changed it to professional quality and it was fine, there was no error or anything, so I left it like that.
I fixed the movie up, checked for errors (there were none) and started to burn my DVD (which btw took a whole 5hrs!!!) and in the end it stopped and said "error durring formatting" I mean....WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS BEFORE YOU RUINED MY DVD??!! AND DID IT HAVE TO TAKE 5HRS FOR YOU TO REALIZE THIS??!!?!?!?!?!? and it only told me there was an error....would you like to tell me WHY????
What I believe the problem might be
possibly I'm thinking it might have to do with either
(a) profesional quality does not change the fact there are too many sub-menus and idvd is just too dumb to tell me this ahead of time
(b) I forget at the moment 😐 .... but you get the idea
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PLEASE TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS
I'm extremely angry because I had to take 2 sub menus, then change them back, and then wait 5 hrs to be told there was an error in the very ending of the making of my movie!! (not to mention some other problems I had...but I'll leave them out) I wanted to get this done soon, and apparently that's not going to happen 😢 HELP ME!!!!!
IDVD version 7.0.4-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8)