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Q: I have been trying to burn a project that I have done on iDVD and it gets to a point and stop's and the rainbow ball starts spinning  please help it toke me two weeks to do this and it want burn, it just say iDVD is not respond . please help

I have been trying to burn a project that I have done on iDVD and it gets to a point and stop's and the rainbow ball starts spinning please help it toke me two weeks to do this and it want burn, it just say iDVD is not respond . please help

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Aug 5, 2016 7:50 PM

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  • by macboss376,

    macboss376 macboss376 Aug 5, 2016 8:07 PM in response to macboss376
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    Aug 5, 2016 8:07 PM in response to macboss376

    I have been trying to burn a project that I have done on iDVD and it gets to a point and stop's and the rainbow ball starts spinning please help it toke me two weeks to do this and it want burn, it just say iDVD is not respond . please help

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Aug 6, 2016 11:15 AM in response to macboss376
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    Aug 6, 2016 11:15 AM in response to macboss376

    First 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.

    As mentioned it separates the encoding portion from the disk burning portion.  If you can't create a disk image then there's something amiss with your project.

     

    What system version are you running and what version of iDVD?

    What type of project is it? 

    Do you have movie files in it? What format are they?

    How much free space do you have on your boot drive?

    Do you have slideshows from still photos? If so how many to a slideshow?

    Music?  If so what type of audio file are they? 

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