Q: Can't Burn iMovie Project in iDVD
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Mar 12, 2015 3:24 PMby Old Toad,First how much free space do you have on your boot drive? When encoding iDVD projects I keep a minimum of 20-25 GB free space.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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Mar 12, 2015 5:05 PMby Old Toad,Yes. That's a hardware issue. Try running the Apple Hardware Test: OS X Mavericks: Use Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test
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Mar 12, 2015 5:33 PMby ehs1979,Some folks have had success blowing compressed air into the drive, or using a lens cleaner, but neither worked for me. Burning a DVD shouldn't be so difficult, I'll try a different brand of disc but I've spent five hours trying to burn this disc, so for now, I quit. Thanks for your help.
