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iDVD burn failure

I am unable to burn a DVD using iDVD,

This disc in question is a slide show with added audio from iMovie. It's not long - about 12 minutes.

I've tried Memorex and Verbatim discs.

With Verbatim discs the burn window starts by saying "Time remaining 4 mins". The progress bar gets as far as, "Writing lead-out", with "Time remaining about 1 minute", when the disc ejects, not having been burnt.

With Memorex discs the burn sequence reaches completion but the resulting disc will not open in my dvd player. In my mac the disc opens as far as the title page but will not play or do anything else.

What can I do to remedy the situation?

I have OS10.7.5 and iDVD 7.1.2

All help and advice will be gratefully received and acknowleged, as usual.

Thanks in anticipation

Rob

Posted on Aug 29, 2013 9:47 AM

25 replies

Sep 3, 2013 2:10 PM in response to Old Toad

Yes, no problems

Old Toad

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Sep 3, 2013 10:36 PM in response to Rob Bartholomew

Copy the disk image to another user account on your Mack and try buring it from there.

Sep 4, 2013 9:16 AM in response to Old Toad

OK I'll try that but first I need to ask how to burn a DVD using Disk Utility. When I get to the "Select files to burn" window, do I just select the img file or do I need to add the separate Audio TS and Video TS folders?

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Sep 4, 2013 9:19 AM in response to Rob Bartholomew

Mount the disk image by double clicking on it. Then in Disk Utility select the disk image as shown in this screenshot and click on the Burn button:

Sep 4, 2013 9:49 AM in response to Old Toad

HI, OT

Thank you so much for trying to help us.

I am using 11.0.6 version of toast titanium. My IDVD is 7.1.2, and my IMovie is 8.0.6

This is the steps I have tried. I hooded up my camcorder got the movie clip I needed, made my IMovie, I have tried both ways just sharing to IDVD. and share to media browser and selected medium. In IDVD I have made projects and tried to burn it, and it goes to the last couple mins and spits out the dic and says it is done. but still says there is acouple of mins. left to go. the last time I save as a disk image. It plays just great in the DVD player. I tried to toast it and got those different errors from toast. so I tried to burn it threw Disk Utility and when I press burn the computer just sits there for ever doing nothing and it says waiting for the drive. but I can't hear the drive trying to do anything.

Sep 4, 2013 10:26 PM in response to kerrinordy

Hey, thank you for all your help It finally worked. I took my project and saved it as a disk image, double clicked it and opened it up and just took the VIDEO_TS and dragged it alone to the toast. it works great. 😁 Thanx OT!!!!

Sep 5, 2013 2:45 PM in response to kerrinordy

Thanks Old Toad,

That seems to have finally cracked it. The resulting DVD plays perfectly in my mac but the sound has one or two small glitches when played in my DVD player. I'll invest in some Taiyo Yuden discs and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks again

Rob