When I complete a project & burn to DVD it goes through all the steps and when it gets to "about one minute remaining" it ejects the disc. It still says "one minute remaining" & has a cancel button. When I try to play the disc on other devices, it is blank. I've tried this 4 different times, restarted with new projects, etc. Why does it go through all the steps of the process & give me a blank disc?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
Create a disk image and burn with anything other than iDVD (e.g. Disk Utility or Burn).
Hi
It's hard to tell as You did not feed us so much vital info.
• What video codec and file formats did You feed iDVD
• length of movie (duration)
• themes used
• encoding quality used
• is there > 25Gb free space ON Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk ? (Others do not count at all)
• brand of DVD use
• type of DVD used - e.g. DVD-R SL x16
• other program running in parallel ?
Just to start by
Yours Bengt W
Bengt:
• length of movie (duration) - I tried 3 times, 1 hr, 15 min, & a 5 min test one
• themes used - 3 different themes
• encoding quality used - best performance
• is there > 25Gb free space ON Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk ? yes
• brand of DVD use Sony
• type of DVD used - e.g. DVD-R SL x16 DVD-R
• other program running in parallel ? no
Mish:
walk me throgh that as I've seen it as a solution before
I know how to save as a disk image but then under disk utility do I burn that disk image?
weill now it won't even let me save as a disk image. I tried making another test project (less than one minute in length) and it says "error in encoding and processing".
This is incredibly frustrating - I just want to get the baby videos off the hard drive & onto something permanent
Burning with Disk Utility: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2087
Since you get an error while creating a disk image try this way:
• delete iDVD preference files (.plist) and empty the trash
• repair permissions and reboot
• Delete the old iDVD projects and create a new one
• Import your video and create a disk image
But before all that we need an answer to Bengt's first question: what exactly are you feeding iDVD? What codec/file extension do the file(s) have? Where does the video come from? If you are not sure about that try opening a video file with Quicktime Player then hit Cmd + I to bring up the Inspector window.
I'm just feeding it either completed projects or clips from iMovie. Thanks for all your help on this
And what Camera recorded it ? Brand, type and format (codec)
And from what iMovie version ? 1 to HD6 or iM'08 to 11 ?
How do You do this feed to iDVD ?
Yours Bengt W
thei video is from a Sony digital camera. When I opened the clips with quicktime & hit command+I it says they are .jpeg with a speed of 29.97 FPS. I feed it to iDVD the way all the tutorials say to do - share it in iMovie, and click on media in iDVD.
update, I tried burning both with disk utility & downloading Burn - both times it says that burn fails because of "a medium write error"
I use
• ONLY - Verbatim
• DVD-R
• Set down BURN SPEED to x2 or x4 (Always)
• Run a Cleaning DVD (brushes - NO Liquid) - from time to time
Yours Bengt W
well I googled medium write error & most of the responses said to clean the disk with air or cleaning disk & try a different brand so I just went out & got a cleaning disk & the only DVDs they had - cheap memorex.
Now it works, thanks for all your help, who woulda thunk it was a dirty disk drive
Burned disc is blank
