Sharing to DVD all my projects stops att 66 % - without error messages.

Your suggestion worked for me after one week of fighting with FCPX and spending hours on research. Thanks!

What is a real shame for Apple is that today, in 2017, FCPX 10.3.2 STILL HAS THE SAME ISSUE. I got the same problem that you guys had in 2013!!!! YES, FCPX 10.3.2!!!!!!

Please APPLE PEOPLE!! READ THESE FORUMS!!!

File>Recent has been deleted from the Create Disc menu since this issue first appeared. Not an option now.

Sometimes just opening and closing Create Disc is enough to kick start the burning.

Other times it's because an image used as a Background is not compatible or too large in the DVD settings.

Al

I came across this problem too, and somehow mine is able to work after stuck at 66% for hours.

I've tried another way, which is-

Export your video in Apple ProRes, and import it into Final Cut Pro 10.2.3 and burnt it.

It's faster.

I quit Create Disc and it relaunched by itself, along with the program quickly finishing the burn. Maybe a total of three minutes after quitting I received the "Share Successful" notification in the top right corner of my monitor.

With that said, I opened the newly created disc by using a blu-ray player called "Blu-ray Player" - yeah, catchy, isn't it, but it did not use the image that I provided in the Background image, but instead used a generic Blu-ray graphic. Also, my chapter markers came in as just time stamps without the names that I provided.

As a result, I tried once more, but this time I used the same image for the "Title image" and it quickly completed within less than three minutes - started at 66% - I thought that was odd. This time it was stuck at 86% for half a minute or so, but I let it complete without trying to quite Create disc. I received the "Share Successful" notification and re-inserted the disc and the same thing.

NOTE: When I tested the chapters, the disc was off by a few seconds.

With that said, I then inserted the disc into my PS3, which did show the correct background image, along with a title image. As well as, the chapters being precise and worked to perfection, which lead to me making a third disc. This time, I only included the Background and logo image, which was successful.

However, on the third disc, FCPX took quite a while to burn - 56 minutes until being prompted to insert a disc, followed by less than two minutes, when it appeared to stop on 86% again, but completed within less than a minute from that time. All together, it took one hour and one minute to complete. The entire concert is 35:48:18 - not very long to take so long to burn

BTW, the first time, I had inserted the disc before choosing to make the DVD through FCPX. The second and third time, I waited for Create Disc to prompt me for a writable disc.

I am using a 2015 MacBook Pro - 10.10.4 - 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 - 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 - Graphic's card: AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB. FCPX 10.2.1

Sidebar question in case anyone may know the answer, but it loads as a generic dvd icon. How can I give it a thumbnail image instead? Also, it doesn't auto start

Either way, hope that helps

Export your Project as a Master File and use iDVD or Toast or similar DVD authoring app.

There are issues with the direct burning from FCP X. I'm getting the 66% problem as well.

Al

Alchroma wrote:

I'm getting the 66% problem as well.

Al

Al,

So was I (and I the list of fixes I tried is too long…no one would want to read it).

What finally got it to work for me was Share>DVD>Settings>Backround; added a small jpeg, then removed. For whatever reason, it seemed to jar Create Disk awake.

Export your Project as a Master File and use iDVD or Toast or similar DVD authoring app.

Completely agree. It was just annoying that I couldn't get it to work. No problems burning from Compressor, iDVD or DVDSP.

Anna,

Hope this works for you as well; in any event, Al's recommendations are good ones.

Russ

Russ H wrote:

What finally got it to work for me was Share>DVD>Settings>Backround; added a small jpeg, then removed. For whatever reason, it seemed to jar Create Disk awake.

I've found if you open an existing Project (if one is in there) that is in the Create Disc recent file list it will work as well.

It seems to jog Create Disc into life.

Somewhere in the recent 10.0.8 update the communication between FCP X and the Create Disc application is twisted!!

Al

"What finally got it to work for me was Share>DVD>Settings>Backround; added a small jpeg, then removed. For whatever reason, it seemed to jar Create Disk awake."

Using this idea I didn't even add or delete an image, just opened the the Background window and closed it again.

This made one stubborn Project work/burn even with some retimed clips in it. 🙂

This action must flick an internal ON switch somewhere????

It's something simple but annoying. I have no idea where to look.

At least with a couple of extra clicks it's now working as expected.

Annamatilda might try the same to confirm the above??

Al

Thanks…a much more "elegant" workaround!

Russ

Annamatilda,

Just to be clear, we're referring to the Settings tab in the DVD export window. Clicking the Add button and when the browser window opens hitting Cancel; then when the export window re-opens, hit Share.

Russ

I hav ethe same problem, but the solution as herabove described, does not seem to work. I am almost in panic. need to burn DVD for my fathers birthday (becomes 80 years end of april).

Tried to solve the problem via Compressor, but the problem there seems that on my DVD-player it looks fine, but on other players there is a problem (intelacing etc) whil exporting form FCP was fine until problem as described above ros.

Help!

That's too bad. Have you tried all of the suggestions?

After trying Alchrima's variation on my ouija board approach, I've done several tests and it's worked every time.

And did you try the Create Disk work around?

It's not the easiest file to find, so…

Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Plug-ins/Compressor/ComressorKit bundle/Contents/EmbeddedApps

As far as image quality goes, Compressor and FCP defaults should be about the same. Maybe you should de-interlace in FCP. Just change it to progressive when you export. (And if you have the option with your camera, record progressive from now.)

Russ

Russ,

Can you explain to me what you mean with the work around?

Foudn the createdisk and then what to do?

Geert

"I've found if you open an existing Project (if one is in there) that is in the Create Disc recent file list it will work as well.

It seems to jog Create Disc into life."

In other words, open Create Disk by double-clicking. Then File>Open Recent. At the top of the list is most probably the last job that got hung up.

Russ