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Q: Burned disc is blank

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)

Posted on Jun 20, 2012 9:24 PM

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Q: Burned disc is blank

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  • by mishmumken,

    mishmumken mishmumken Jun 21, 2012 12:54 AM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 21, 2012 12:54 AM in response to rab ag

    Create a disk image and burn with anything other than iDVD (e.g. Disk Utility or Burn).

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby Jun 21, 2012 4:16 AM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 21, 2012 4:16 AM in response to rab ag

    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

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 21, 2012 5:53 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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    Jun 21, 2012 5:53 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

    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

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 21, 2012 5:54 AM in response to mishmumken
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    Jun 21, 2012 5:54 AM in response to mishmumken

    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?

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 21, 2012 6:25 AM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 21, 2012 6:25 AM in response to rab ag

    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

  • by mishmumken,

    mishmumken mishmumken Jun 21, 2012 7:10 AM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 21, 2012 7:10 AM in response to rab ag

    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.

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 21, 2012 7:35 AM in response to mishmumken
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    Jun 21, 2012 7:35 AM in response to mishmumken

    I'm just feeding it either completed projects or clips from iMovie. Thanks for all your help on this

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby Jun 21, 2012 8:15 AM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 21, 2012 8:15 AM in response to rab ag

    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

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 24, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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    Jun 24, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

    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.

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 24, 2012 1:07 PM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 24, 2012 1:07 PM in response to rab ag

    update, I tried burning both with disk utility & downloading Burn - both times it says that burn fails because of "a medium write error"

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby Jun 24, 2012 1:18 PM in response to rab ag
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    Jun 24, 2012 1:18 PM in response to rab ag

    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

  • by rab ag,

    rab ag rab ag Jun 24, 2012 2:25 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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    Jun 24, 2012 2:25 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

    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